Re: [RFC PATCH] perf/core: exposing type of context-switch-out event

[Andi Kleen]

On Thu, Mar 01, 2018 at 06:40:04PM +0300, Alexey Budankov wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> This patch prototypes exposing the type of context-switch-out event using
> PERF_RECORD_MISC_EXT_RESERVED bit for PERF_RECORD_SWITCH[_CPU_WIDE] records.

It would be better to define an actually named bit in perf_event.h.
It can be the same value.

Also we would need a patch for perf script / perf report -D to print this
information.

The rest looks good to me.

-Andi