Stephane Eranian [eranian@google.com] wrote:
| So all in all, I think this is not a very good idea. You have to put
| this into the tool or a library that auto-detects the
| host CPU and programs the right set of events.
| 
| We've had that discussion many times. Just reiterating my personal
| opinion on this.

Yes that would work too. One drawback is that the hardware events
will be in the tool, while the software/tracepoint events in the
kernel sysfs representation.

Or is that the reason we want all events in one place (sysfs) ?

Sukadev