On Tue, Mar 10, 2020 at 11:50:03AM -0700, Ian Rogers wrote: > This patch links perf with the libpfm4 library. > This library contains all the hardware event tables for all > processors supported by perf_events. This is a helper library > that help convert from a symbolic event name to the event > encoding required by the underlying kernel interface. This > library is open-source and available from: http://perfmon2.sf.net. For most CPUs the builtin perf JSON event support should make this redundant. Perhaps you could list what CPUs it actually supports over the existing JSON tables. If it's only a few it would be likely better to add appropiate json files. If it's a massive number it might be useful, although JSON support would be better for those too. -Andi
