Re: [PATCH 1/9] perf vendor events: drop incomplete multiple mapfile support

From: Jiri Olsa
Date: Thu Feb 08 2018 - 08:55:49 EST


On Wed, Feb 07, 2018 at 01:44:56AM +0800, John Garry wrote:
> Currently jevents supports multiple mapfiles, but this
> is only in the form where mapfile basename starts with
> 'mapfile.csv'
>
> At the moment, no architectures actually use multiple mapfiles,
> so drop the support for now.
>
> This patch also solves a nuisance where, when the mapfile is
> edited and the text editor may create a backup, jevents may
> use the backup, as shown:
> jevents: Many mapfiles? Using pmu-events/arch/arm64/mapfile.csv~, ignoring pmu-events/arch/arm64/mapfile.csv
>
> Signed-off-by: John Garry <john.garry@xxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx>

thanks,
jirka