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Good oneGood onePosted Sep 25, 2013 13:39 UTC (Wed) by deater (subscriber, #11746)In reply to: Good one by luto Parent article: A perf ABI fix
> Are you using some library or doing this directly? I'd like to do the same
> thing, but the API seems to be (intentionally) poorly documented.
I'm currently doing the RDPMC accesses directly. The eventual goal is to have the PAPI performance library use the interface; there are overhead issues with the interface I was dealing with first (sometimes it is slower to use RDPMC than to just use the read() syscall, for reasons that took me a long time to figure out. Thankfully there are workarounds).
In any case yes, the documentation is awful. I wrote the perf_event_open() manpage in an attempt to address this. I've been working on updating the RDPMC part of that recently, although had to spend time trying to sanely document this ABI issue instead.
Don't go by the example RDPMC code in perf_event.h, it's out of date and possibly never really worked. I've been meaning to send a patch to fix that.
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Good one Posted Sep 25, 2013 19:20 UTC (Wed) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link]
> Don't go by the example RDPMC code in perf_event.h, it's out of date and possibly never really worked. I've been meaning to send a patch to fix that.
Could a patch which replaces it with "TODO: Add an example" (or similar) be pushed for 3.12 at least? If there's anything worse than no documentation, it's bad documentation.
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