# Re: \[RFC\]\[PATCH\] perf: Add a few generic stalled-cycles events

- From: Sukadev Bhattiprolu \<hidden\>
- Date: 2012-10-19 17:05:13 
- List: linuxppc-dev
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/linuxppc-dev/2012/10/3942446
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/lkml/2012/10/3938407/t.md

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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
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