Re: [PATCH v2] perf/x86/intel/uncore: Provide alias for IIO free-running boxes on SKX

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Tue Sep 04 2018 - 03:13:57 EST


On Tue, Sep 04, 2018 at 06:58:17PM +0800, Jin Yao wrote:
> root@skx /sys/devices# ls | grep uncore_iio
> uncore_iio_0
> uncore_iio_1
> uncore_iio_2
> uncore_iio_3
> uncore_iio_4
> uncore_iio_5
> uncore_iio_free_running_0
> uncore_iio_free_running_1
> uncore_iio_free_running_2
> uncore_iio_free_running_3
> uncore_iio_free_running_4
> uncore_iio_free_running_5

> root@skx /sys/devices# ls | grep uncore_iio
> uncore_iio_0
> uncore_iio_1
> uncore_iio_2
> uncore_iio_3
> uncore_iio_4
> uncore_iio_5
> uncore_iio_cbdma
> uncore_iio_mcp0
> uncore_iio_mcp1
> uncore_iio_pcie0
> uncore_iio_pcie1
> uncore_iio_pcie2

I think I'm ok with that, except of course for people that have
"free_running_#" in their scripts now and will to wtf when they upgrade
their kernel.

Do we care about them?