From: Cody P Schafer <c...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> 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 <c...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <suka...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jo...@kernel.org> Cc: Cody P Schafer <d...@codyps.com> Cc: Haren Myneni <hb...@us.ibm.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jo...@redhat.com> Cc: Michael Ellerman <m...@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Paul Mackerras <pau...@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org> Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <suka...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1420679633-28856-4-git-send-email-suka...@linux.vnet.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <a...@redhat.com> --- Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-event_source-devices-events | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) 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-ker...@vger.kernel.org> -- 1.9.3 _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
