[PATCH 2/4] perf: jevents: Program to convert JSON file to C style file

Sukadev Bhattiprolu sukadev at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Sat May 23 04:09:17 AEST 2015


Andi Kleen [ak at linux.intel.com] wrote:
| > pmu-events.c depends only on JSON files relevant to the arch perf is
| > being built on and there could be several JSON files per arch. So it
| > would complicate the Makefiles.
| 
| Could just use a wildcard dependency on */$(ARCH)/*.json 

Sure, but shouldn't we allow JSON files to be in subdirs

	pmu-events/arch/x86/HSX/Haswell_core.json

and this could go to arbitrary levels?

| 
| Also it would be good to move the generated file into the object
| directory. I tried it but it needs some more changes to the Makefiles.
| 
| -Andi



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