* Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > [...] There's an easy fix for this too: improve "perf test" to > cover the cases you're intested in. While ABI spec would be a nice > addition, it's not going to make compatibility problems magically > go away. Yes, exactly - 'perf test' has been written with that exact purpose. In practice 'perf' will cover almost all parts of the ABI. The one notable thing that isnt being tested in a natural way is the 'group of events' abstraction - which, ironically, has been added on the perfmon guys' insistence. No app beyond the PAPI self-test makes actual use of it though, which results in an obvious lack of testing. Vince: the code is in tools/perf/builtin-test.c and our offer still stands, feel free to extend it. Maybe there's some other volunteer willing to do that? Thanks, Ingo -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
