Re: [RFC][PATCH] perf: sysfs type id

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Wed, 2010-11-17 at 20:57 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > How about a compromise position: all of the arch-specific events are 
> > exposed to user space via sysfs iff some CONFIG_* variable to set to 
> > true.  Something like CONFIG_EXPOSE_ALL_HW_PERF_EVENTS_IN_SYSFS.
> > This way you would only use all that memory when it's explicitly 
> > configured in. 

Another thing you could do is make all PMU drivers loadable modules
(most of the infrastructure for that is present) and make the exhaustive
list either a module parameter or another module extending the PMU
driver.


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