Add an explanation of each cpu's core and socket
identifier to the documentation.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Richter <tmri...@linux.ibm.com>
---
tools/perf/Documentation/perf.data-file-format.txt | 8 ++++++++
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf.data-file-format.txt
b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf.data-file-format.txt
index d00f0d51cab8..c57904a526ce 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf.data-file-format.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf.data-file-format.txt
@@ -153,10 +153,18 @@ struct {
HEADER_CPU_TOPOLOGY = 13,
String lists defining the core and CPU threads topology.
+The string lists are followed by a variable length array
+which contains core_id and socket_id of each cpu.
+The number of entries can be determined by the size of the
+section minus the sizes of both string lists.
struct {
struct perf_header_string_list cores; /* Variable length */
struct perf_header_string_list threads; /* Variable length */
+ struct {
+ uint32_t core_id;
+ uint32_t socket_id;
+ } cpus[nr]; /* Variable length records */
};
Example:
--
2.14.3
