Re: [PATCH 09/13] perf tools: Add perf download to download event files

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Thu Jul 17 2014 - 06:51:51 EST



* Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
> this bit needs more discussion:
>
> * Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > From: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Add a downloader to automatically download the right
> > files from a download site.
>
> 'A download site' is way too vague and detached from the perf project.
>
> > + echo "Downloading models file"
> > + URLBASE=${URLBASE:-https://download.01.org/perfmon}
>
> We want these description files to be in the perf source code,
> somewhere in tools/perf/live-config/arch/x86/ or so, and installed
> during 'make install' - i.e. part of perf project and installed in
> ~/.debug or ~/.perf or so.
>
> Those files could be refreshed via 'perf download' and could be
> accessible via kernel.org as well, 'perf download' should pick up
> these files from Linus's latest git repository (via the HTTP
> namespace).

So basically instead of the above URI, we want these files to be
refreshed from:

http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/tools/perf/live-config/

Thanks,

Ingo
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