Re: [V3][PATCH 0/7] perf, x86: Implement AMD IBS

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Tue Oct 04 2011 - 04:28:26 EST


On Fri, 2011-09-23 at 14:20 +0200, Robert Richter wrote:
> > The only thing I'm not quite sure on is the userspace bits, but those
> > are in the future work section as well, but possibly Ingo has a strong
> > opinion here, sadly he doesn't have email atm :/
>
> With Lin's patch 'perf: Remove perf_event_attr::type check' we already
> can sample with perf record.
>
> I think we could extend perf report to parse also ibs samples. The
> only thing we need for it should be the pmu name/type mapping in the
> perf.data header and the pmu type in the sample. See my comment on
> Stephane's patch '[PATCH] perf: make perf.data more self-descriptive
> (v5)'.

OK, so Ingo really really wants to see a little more perf integration
there. Acme, what's the state of Stephane's patch?
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