Re: [PATCH 2/3] perf: Add support for extra parameters for rawevents

[Andi Kleen]

> I don't think you need special syntax. You can simply come up with
> the 64-bit raw hex value. corey recently added a small utility to do
> this via libpfm4: perf stat -e `evt2raw unhalted_core_cycles:u` ....

I added a small patch to perf to read event mappings from a flat mapping file.

> > Also, I think we can use the same mechanism to program the
> > PEBS-load-latency MSR, right?
> >
> Yes, we could hardcode the latency the same way.

At least right now it would still need a constraint, because only
one counter can use it. 

-Andi

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