On Wed, Aug 05, 2015 at 06:13:32PM +0300, Alexey Brodkin wrote: > + hwc->config = 0; > + > + if (is_isa_arcv2()) { > + /* "exclude user" means "count only kernel" */ > + if (event->attr.exclude_user) > + hwc->config |= ARC_REG_PCT_CONFIG_KERN; > + > + /* "exclude kernel" means "count only user" */ > + if (event->attr.exclude_kernel) > + hwc->config |= ARC_REG_PCT_CONFIG_USER; > + } > + > switch (event->attr.type) { > case PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE: > if (event->attr.config >= PERF_COUNT_HW_MAX) > return -ENOENT; > if (arc_pmu->ev_hw_idx[event->attr.config] < 0) > return -ENOENT; > - hwc->config = arc_pmu->ev_hw_idx[event->attr.config]; > + hwc->config |= arc_pmu->ev_hw_idx[event->attr.config]; So I would still very much like perf_event_attr::config to reflect the value you'll program into hardware. If you want to do that weird 4 character lookup thing, use a special hardware event (possibly 0 if that is not a valid value), and stuff the 4 chars in ::config1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html