Hello, I'd like to open a discussion of allowing certain architecture-specific functions into libpfm.
Specifically, on the powerpc arch, we have this mechanism of pre-defined groups of events that are allowed to be traced in counters simultaneously. However, this information is currently buried inside of libpfm and there's no way for a caller of libpfm to extract this information using any method besides trial and error (by attempting to put events in the same event set, and seeing if dispatch generates an error). I realize that other architectures don't use this pre-defined group approach, so this would have to be an arch-specific function. So, first, I'd like to ask if there's any sort of strong objection to adding arch-specific functions to libpfm. Of course, we'd have to make a strong argument that the function would be useful to callers of libpfm. Thanks, - Corey -- Corey Ashford Software Engineer IBM Linux Technology Center, Linux Toolchain Beaverton, OR 503-578-3507 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ perfmon2-devel mailing list perfmon2-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/perfmon2-devel
