On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 10:14:20AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > I.e. you would be encoding the counter unit as the suffix, might as well > > > call it "power/cores.joules" and use the dot as the separator for the > > > unit, but would be just a compact form to encode the counter->unit > > > table. > > > > May be easier to add a sysfs entry with the unit to display. > > Yes - with no entry meaning a raw 'count' or such.
The downside to such a sysfs entry will be the scope. It would either be pmu wide (unwieldy for many PMUs) or be only per listed event; and we really don't want exhaustive event lists in the kernel. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
