Subject: Re: [PATCH v16 00/16] perf, tools: Add support for PMU events in JSON format

From: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2015 12:05:21 -0700

Sukadev Bhattiprolu [[email-masked]] wrote:
| CPUs support a large number of performance monitoring events (PMU events)
| and often these events are very specific to an architecture/model of the
| CPU. To use most of these PMU events with perf, we currently have to identify
| them by their raw codes:
| 
| 	perf stat -e r100f2 sleep 1
| 
| This patchset allows architectures to specify these PMU events in JSON
| files located in 'tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/' of the mainline tree.
| The events from the JSON files for the architecture are then built into
| the perf binary.
| 
| At run time, perf identifies the specific set of events for the CPU and
| creates "event aliases". These aliases allow users to specify events by
| "name" as:
| 
| 	perf stat -e pm_1plus_ppc_cmpl sleep 1
| 
| The file, 'tools/perf/pmu-events/README' in [PATCH 16/16] gives more
| details.
| 
| Note:
| 	- All known events tables for the architecture are included in the
| 	  perf binary.
| 
| 	- For architectures that don't have any JSON files, an empty mapping
| 	  table is created and they should continue to build.
| 
| Thanks to input from Andi Kleen, Jiri Olsa, Namhyung Kim and Ingo Molnar.
| 
| These patches are available from:
| 
| 	https://github.com:sukadev/linux.git 
| 	
| 	Branch			Description
| 	------------------------------------------------------
| 	json-v16		Source Code only 
| 	json-files-6		x86 and Powerpc datafiles only
| 	json-v16-with-data	Both code and data (for build/test)

Arnaldo, Ingo,

I added Andi's patch https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/8/28/521 to 'json-v16' branch.
and created a new branch, 'json-files-7' with updated to Intel data files.
Here are the three new branches.

 	https://github.com:sukadev/linux.git 
 	
 	Branch			Description
 	------------------------------------------------------
 	json-v16		Source Code only 
 	json-files-7		x86 and Powerpc datafiles only
 	json-v16.1-with-data	Both code and data (for build/test)

Sukadev