Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 22 Dec 2014 11:34:36 -0800 | From | Sukadev Bhattiprolu <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v6 3/4] perf Documentation: add event parameters |
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Jiri Olsa [jolsa@redhat.com] wrote: | On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 11:49:26PM -0800, Sukadev Bhattiprolu wrote: | > From: Cody P Schafer <cody@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | > + In the case of the last example, a value replacing "?" would | > + need to be provided by the user selecting the particular event. | > + This is referred to as "event parameterization". All | > + non-numerical values indicate an event parameter. | | I see.. here's the glitch ;-) I thought we agreed on forcing '?' | as the value for param events, not 'All non-numerical values'
Yes, it is currently more broad than needed, but it is not really user input - we are just parsing sysfs entries that developer specified in the kernel. If necessary, we can tighten that independently ? | | thanks, | jirka
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