Re: [PATCH V5 0/13] perf: Intel uncore pmu counting support

From: Stephane Eranian
Date: Thu Jun 14 2012 - 01:41:21 EST


On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 4:18 AM, Yan, Zheng <zheng.z.yan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 06/13/2012 05:02 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>> On Wed, 2012-06-13 at 09:41 +0800, Yan, Zheng wrote:
>>> Peter suggests keeping the uncore names as they're listed in the intel
>>> doc. For Sandybirdge-EP, uncore names are something like: Cbo, iMC,
>>> QPI.
>>
>> No they're not, they're C-Box etc.. but I'm fine with doing a tolower on
>> all of it.
>>
>
> The reason I choose CBox instead of C-Box is that '-' is a separate symbol
> in the flex rules. '-' is used for matching events such as LLC-load-misses.
> I don't know how to allow letter '-' in the pmu name, but without leading
> to ambiguity.
>
I would drop the -, just call it cbox.
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