Re: [PATCH] perf-record: Create events initially disabled -- again

From: David Ahern
Date: Mon May 14 2012 - 21:54:44 EST


On 5/14/12 7:46 PM, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
And we need to have all this logic in a central place, the "open" method
of perf_evlist :-)

The perf_target abstraction is the way to get there, but in the process
I think we really need to have each new method with a 'perf test' entry
and in addition to that an 'autotest'* entry to test the perf builtins.

- Arnaldo

* http://autotest.github.com/

Yes, I've seen the project and know that kvm leverages the framework. My knowledge ends there - never had a reason to try it out. With the vPMU in v3.3 we could use KVM to automate a fair bit of the testing.

David
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