Re: [PATCH] perf test: Add bpf-output event

From: Alexei Starovoitov
Date: Wed Nov 18 2015 - 18:14:47 EST


On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 05:50:39PM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> Em Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 11:26:04AM -0800, Sukadev Bhattiprolu escreveu:
> > >From 8f71d55dd3e27e6ca2138e3ed6dfeceb1c00a426 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> > From: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2015 19:06:08 -0500
> > Subject: [PATCH] perf test: Add bpf-output event
> >
> > The kernel has added support for 'PERF_COUNT_SW_BPF_OUTPUT' but that is
> > missing from the perf tool. Among other things, results in the 'roundtrip
> > evsel->name check' test case of 'perf test' failing on Powerpc.
>
> Next time can you please state if this is for this merge window or for
> the next?
>
> Will apply it for perf/core, for the next merge window.

wait a sec, I believe Wang has posted an RFC a month ago that adds support
for this properly instead of simply shutting up the error.
Or I missed something?

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