From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754974Ab3AVRLM (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Jan 2013 12:11:12 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:51990 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753335Ab3AVRLJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Jan 2013 12:11:09 -0500 Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2013 18:10:13 +0100 From: Jiri Olsa To: Sukadev Bhattiprolu Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo , Peter Zijlstra , Paul Mackerras , Ingo Molnar , Anton Blanchard , robert.richter@amd.com, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Stephane Eranian , Andi Kleen , Greg KH Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6][v3] perf: Document the ABI of perf sysfs entries Message-ID: <20130122171013.GM1037@krava.brq.redhat.com> References: <20130110010347.GA32590@us.ibm.com> <20130110010703.GF32590@us.ibm.com> <20130115185759.GG5826@ghostprotocols.net> <20130116113013.GA1042@krava.brq.redhat.com> <20130116185815.GA3351@us.ibm.com> <20130117141145.GA3817@krava.brq.redhat.com> <20130118174654.GA12575@us.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20130118174654.GA12575@us.ibm.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 09:46:54AM -0800, Sukadev Bhattiprolu wrote: > Jiri Olsa [jolsa@redhat.com] wrote: SNIP > + > +Contact: Linux kernel mailing list > + Linux Powerpc mailing list > + > +Description: POWER-systems specific performance monitoring events > + > + A collection of performance monitoring events that may be > + supported by the POWER CPU. These events can be monitored > + using the 'perf(1)' tool. > + > + These events may not be supported by other CPUs. > + > + The contents of each file would look like: > + > + event=0xNNNN > + > + where 'N' is a hex digit and the number '0xNNNN' shows the > + "raw code" for the perf event identified by the file's > + "basename". > + > + Further, multiple terms like 'event=0xNNNN' can be specified > + and separated with comma. All available terms are defined in > + the /sys/bus/event_source/devices//format file. Acked-by: Jiri Olsa thanks, jirka