Re: [PATCH] [2/9] Fix the names of the arch perfmon events to conform better to the manual

[John L. <le...@mo...>]

On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 05:36:21PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:

> -event:0xc0 counters:cpuid um:zero minimum:6000 filter:1 name:INST_RETIRED_ANY_P : number of instructions retired
> +event:0xc0 counters:cpuid um:one minimum:6000 filter:1 name:INST_RETIRED : number of instructions retired

We can get away with this before 1.0, but after that, we'd need to
introduce rules over legacy naming: we can't break people's scripts.

regards
john