[PATCH 5/6][v4]: perf: Create a sysfs entry for Power event format

[Paul Mackerras]

On Tue, Mar 05, 2013 at 09:48:26PM -0800, Sukadev Bhattiprolu wrote:
> Michael Ellerman [michael at ellerman.id.au] wrote:
> | I suspect Arnaldo was either waiting for an ACK from Ben, or was
> | expecting Ben to take it?
> 
> Arnaldo, here is an updated patch. If it is acked by Paul Mackerras,
> Michael Ellerman or Ben, will you add it to your tree so the whole
> patchset comes from one place ?
> 
> Sukadev
> 
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> >From 50c7a46f14083c0ed10d66b7aed66ba76e798550 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2013 21:20:56 -0800
> Subject: [PATCH] [PATCH 5/6][v4]: perf Create a sysfs format entry for Power7 events
> 
> Create a sysfs entry, '/sys/bus/event_source/devices/cpu/format/event'
> which describes the format of the POWER7 PMU events.
> 
> This code is based on corresponding code in x86.
> 
> Changelog[v4]:  [Michael Ellerman, Paul Mckerras] The event format is different
> 		for other POWER cpus. So move the code to POWER7-specific,
> 		power7-pmu.c Also, the POWER7 format uses bits 0-19 not 0-20.
> 
> Changelog[v2]: [Jiri Osla] Use PMU_FORMAT_ATTR rather than duplicating code.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev at linux.vnet.ibm.com>

Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus at samba.org>