Re: [PATCH v5 0/4] Prefer sysfs/JSON events also when no PMU is provided

[Namhyung Kim]

On Thu, 09 Jan 2025 14:21:05 -0800, Ian Rogers wrote:
> At the RISC-V summit the topic of avoiding event data being in the
> RISC-V PMU kernel driver came up. There is a preference for sysfs/JSON
> events being the priority when no PMU is provided so that legacy
> events maybe supported via json. Originally Mark Rutland also
> expressed at LPC 2023 that doing this would resolve bugs on ARM Apple
> M? processors, but James Clark more recently tested this and believes
> the driver issues there may not have existed or have been resolved. In
> any case, it is inconsistent that with a PMU event names avoid legacy
> encodings, but when wildcarding PMUs (ie without a PMU with the event
> name) the legacy encodings have priority.
> 
> [...]
Applied patch 1 and 2 to perf-tools-next, thanks!

Best regards,
Namhyung