On 5/20/2010 1:08 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
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> On Wed, 2010-05-19 at 18:33 -0700, Corey Ashford wrote:
>>
>> We also need to take into account event "attributes" - other data that
>> is needed to configure a specific event.  For example, think about a
>> memory controller which has a PMU can count events in a particular
>> memory range; we need to be able to supply the memory range somehow, 
> 
> That's that perf_event_attr is for.
> 

I think the issue is that what is stuffed into perf_event_attr's fields should be done in a way that userspace tools can figure out via attribute info which is in exported by the kernel via sysfs (or eventfs, etc.)

- Corey

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