Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6][v3] perf: Document the ABI of perf sysfs entries

From: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2013 09:46:54 -0800

Jiri Olsa [[email-masked]] wrote:
| Maybe it'd worth to mention, that it does not need to be just 'event',
| but anything from /sys/bus/event_source/devices/<dev>/format directory,
| like
| 
| 		The can be multiple terms like 'event=0xNNNN' specified
| 		and separated with comma. All available terms are located
| 		in /sys/bus/event_source/devices/<dev>/format file.
| 
| Please feel free to rephrase or use proper English ;-)
| 
| otherwise it's ok,
| jirka

Agree.  Thanks for the review. Here is the updated patch.

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>>From 1e3cc6b3ef87f533985b10574af472361e39eecd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2013 22:31:49 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] perf: Document the ABI of perf sysfs entries

This patchset addes two new sets of files to sysfs for POWER architecture.

	- perf event config format in /sys/devices/cpu/format/event
	- generic and POWER-specific perf events in /sys/devices/cpu/events/

The format of the first file is already documented in:

	sysfs-bus-event_source-devices-format

Document the format of the second set of files '/sys/devices/cpu/events/*'
which would also become part of the ABI.

Changelog[v3.2]: (small changes to this one patch).
	[Jiri Olsa]: Mention that multiple event= like terms can be specified
	in the 'events' file.

Changelog[v3.1]:
	(small changes to just this one patch).
	[Jiri Olsa]: Remove the documentation for the 'config format' file
	as it is already documented in 'Documentation/ABI/testing/'.
	[Jiri Olsa]: Move the documentation of 'events' also to 'testing'
	from 'stable'.

Changelog[v3]:
	[Greg KH] Include ABI documentation.

Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <[email-masked]>
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 .../testing/sysfs-bus-event_source-devices-events  |   62 ++++++++++++++++++++
 1 files changed, 62 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
 delete mode 100644 Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-devices-cpu-events
 create mode 100644 Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-event_source-devices-events

diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-devices-cpu-events b/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-devices-cpu-events
deleted file mode 100644
index e69de29..0000000
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-event_source-devices-events b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-event_source-devices-events
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0adeb52
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-event_source-devices-events
@@ -0,0 +1,62 @@
+What:		/sys/devices/cpu/events/
+		/sys/devices/cpu/events/branch-misses
+		/sys/devices/cpu/events/cache-references
+		/sys/devices/cpu/events/cache-misses
+		/sys/devices/cpu/events/stalled-cycles-frontend
+		/sys/devices/cpu/events/branch-instructions
+		/sys/devices/cpu/events/stalled-cycles-backend
+		/sys/devices/cpu/events/instructions
+		/sys/devices/cpu/events/cpu-cycles
+
+Date:		2013/01/08
+
+Contact:	Linux kernel mailing list <[email-masked]>
+
+Description:	Generic performance monitoring events
+
+		A collection of performance monitoring events that may be
+		supported by many/most CPUs. These events can be monitored
+		using the 'perf(1)' tool.
+
+		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".
+
+
+What: 		/sys/devices/cpu/events/PM_LD_MISS_L1
+		/sys/devices/cpu/events/PM_LD_REF_L1
+		/sys/devices/cpu/events/PM_CYC
+		/sys/devices/cpu/events/PM_BRU_FIN
+		/sys/devices/cpu/events/PM_GCT_NOSLOT_CYC
+		/sys/devices/cpu/events/PM_BRU_MPRED
+		/sys/devices/cpu/events/PM_INST_CMPL
+		/sys/devices/cpu/events/PM_CMPLU_STALL
+
+Date:		2013/01/08
+
+Contact:	Linux kernel mailing list <[email-masked]>
+		Linux Powerpc mailing list <[email-masked]>
+
+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/<dev>/format file.
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