Re: [RFC PATCH 2/5] perf jevents: add support for arch recommended events

[Andi Kleen]

On Wed, Dec 06, 2017 at 12:13:16AM +0800, John Garry wrote:
> For some architectures (like arm64), there are architecture-
> defined recommended events. Vendors may not be obliged to
> follow the recommendation and may implement their own pmu
> event for a specific event cod

I would just duplicate the architected events into the different 
vendor files.  Then you wouldn't need all this mess.

-Andi