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Diffstat (limited to 'arch/powerpc/include/asm/perf_event_server.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/powerpc/include/asm/perf_event_server.h | 8 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/perf_event_server.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/perf_event_server.h index 069108717163..e157489ee7a1 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/perf_event_server.h +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/perf_event_server.h @@ -136,6 +136,11 @@ extern ssize_t power_events_sysfs_show(struct device *dev, * event 'cpu-cycles' can have two entries in sysfs: 'cpu-cycles' and * 'PM_CYC' where the latter is the name by which the event is known in * POWER CPU specification. + * + * Similarly, some hardware and cache events use the same event code. Eg. + * on POWER8, both "cache-references" and "L1-dcache-loads" events refer + * to the same event, PM_LD_REF_L1. The suffix, allows us to have two + * sysfs objects for the same event and thus two entries/aliases in sysfs. */ #define EVENT_VAR(_id, _suffix) event_attr_##_id##_suffix #define EVENT_PTR(_id, _suffix) &EVENT_VAR(_id, _suffix).attr.attr @@ -147,5 +152,8 @@ extern ssize_t power_events_sysfs_show(struct device *dev, #define GENERIC_EVENT_ATTR(_name, _id) EVENT_ATTR(_name, _id, _g) #define GENERIC_EVENT_PTR(_id) EVENT_PTR(_id, _g) +#define CACHE_EVENT_ATTR(_name, _id) EVENT_ATTR(_name, _id, _c) +#define CACHE_EVENT_PTR(_id) EVENT_PTR(_id, _c) + #define POWER_EVENT_ATTR(_name, _id) EVENT_ATTR(_name, _id, _p) #define POWER_EVENT_PTR(_id) EVENT_PTR(_id, _p) |