Re: [PATCH] replace . with _ in core 2 events

[William C. <wc...@re...>]

Benjamin LaHaise wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 11:53:14AM -0400, William Cohen wrote:
> 
>>These unit masks don't match, causing the failure. Given the multiple 
>>event names with different unit masks mappings to the same event number. 
>>This is going to be a problem.
> 
> 
> The entries do indeed have the same event number.  The entry+unit masks in 
> question are the architectural definitions, which are defined for any 
> future CPUs with family == 6.  That they overlap with another currently 
> defined event is intentional, but I'm not sure if this is the best way 
> to handle things.
> 
> 		-ben

Hi Ben,

Does the following patch look reasonable? It trims the low 8bits from 
larger unit masks. Should the other events using "um:mesi"  also use 
core_mesi?

-Will