Re: [PATCH] Add some documentation on the perf sysfs ABI interface

[Andi Kleen]

On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 08:34:07AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 11:30:33AM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 03:34:19PM -0700, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > > From: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > 
> > > Initial attempt of documenting the perf sysfs interface as
> > > an ABI. I also added some additional pointers hopefully useful
> > > to the users. Comments welcome.
> > 
> > My only worry is that its a little x86 centric and I'm not sure if that
> > is acceptable with the sysfs crowd, Greg?
> 
> Does this document what you have today?  If so, that's fine, and good to
> do.
> 
> Or, is this a proposed interface that is different per architecture in
> subtle non-portable ways?  If so, probably not :)

Each architecture describes its own fields in a generic format that
can be handled by a generic parser.  The generic description is documented.

However I also described the x86 specific attributes.

This is all implemented today.

-Andi
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