Re: [PATCH] PERF(kernel): Cleanup power events V2

["Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@xxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday, October 26, 2010, Thomas Renninger wrote:
> Changes in V2:
>   - Introduce PWR_EVENT_EXIT instead of 0 to mark non-power state
>   - Use u32 instead of u64 for cpuid, state which is by far enough
> 
> New power trace events:
> power:processor_idle
> power:processor_frequency
> power:machine_suspend
> 
> 
> C-state/idle accounting events:
>   power:power_start
>   power:power_end
> are replaced with:
>   power:processor_idle
> 
> and
>   power:power_frequency
> is replaced with:
>   power:processor_frequency
> 
> power:machine_suspend
> is newly introduced, a first implementation
> comes from the ARM side, but it's easy to add these events
> in X86 as well if needed.

As I said already somewhere else, I think this one should be done at the
core level rather than in arch-specific code.

Thanks,
Rafael
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