On 31 July 2016 at 06:03, Jiri Olsa [off-list ref] wrote:

On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 03:42:21PM -0600, Mathieu Poirier wrote:

quoted

Now that PMU specific driver configuration are queued in
evsel::config_terms, all we need to do is re-use the current
ioctl() mechanism to push down the information to the kernel
driver.

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org>
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 tools/perf/builtin-record.c |  9 +++++++++
 tools/perf/builtin-stat.c   |  8 ++++++++

how about perf top?

It took me a while to notice the "event" option in cmd_top().  You are
correct, it applies there as well.

Mathieu

jirka