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| author | Cody P Schafer <cody@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2015-01-07 17:13:52 -0800 |
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| committer | Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> | 2015-01-21 13:24:33 -0300 |
| commit | 98a43e0e9917059da32db89829b0eb95453a11ee (patch) | |
| tree | 7c843139d113aaecda2565efa51829cea1e2086e /Documentation/ABI | |
| parent | aaea36174991ff39c7a18044660db86527100c55 (diff) | |
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perf Documentation: Add event parameters
Event parameters are a basic way for partial events to be specified in
sysfs with per-event names given to the fields that need to be filled in
when using a particular event.
It is intended for supporting cases where the single 'cpu' parameter is
insufficient. For example, POWER 8 has events for physical
sockets/cores/cpus that are accessible from with virtual machines. To
keep using the single 'cpu' parameter we'd need to perform a mapping
between Linux's cpus and the physical machine's cpus (in this case Linux
is running under a hypervisor). This isn't possible because bindings
between our cpus and physical cpus may not be fixed, and we probably
won't have a "cpu" on each physical cpu.
Signed-off-by: Cody P Schafer <cody@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Cody P Schafer <dev@codyps.com>
Cc: Haren Myneni <hbabu@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1420679633-28856-4-git-send-email-sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/ABI')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-event_source-devices-events | 6 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-event_source-devices-events b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-event_source-devices-events index 20979f8b3edb..505f080d20a1 100644 --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-event_source-devices-events +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-event_source-devices-events @@ -52,12 +52,18 @@ Description: Per-pmu performance monitoring events specific to the running syste event=0x2abc event=0x423,inv,cmask=0x3 domain=0x1,offset=0x8,starting_index=0xffff + domain=0x1,offset=0x8,core=? Each of the assignments indicates a value to be assigned to a particular set of bits (as defined by the format file corresponding to the <term>) in the perf_event structure passed to the perf_open syscall. + In the case of the last example, a value replacing "?" would + need to be provided by the user selecting the particular event. + This is referred to as "event parameterization". Event + parameters have the format 'param=?'. + What: /sys/bus/event_source/devices/<pmu>/events/<event>.unit Date: 2014/02/24 Contact: Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org> |