Re: [PATCH 3/4] perf: Use pmu_events_map table to create event aliases

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Thu May 21 2015 - 14:50:53 EST


On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 10:02:04PM -0700, Sukadev Bhattiprolu wrote:
> Andi Kleen [ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] wrote:
> | If you need something else in vfm to identify the CPU
> | can't you just add it there? I wouldn't really call it vfm, it's
> | really a "abstract cpu identifier per architecture". So if you
> | need pvr just add it there.
>
> Ok. I will change vfm to cpuid_str and include pvr in it.

Thanks.

With that change it would be also cleaner to provide a get_cpuid_str()
function by the architecture code, and then strcmp in the matching
code, instead of having architecture specific compare code.

-Andi

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