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

Michael Ellerman michael at ellerman.id.au
Wed Mar 13 11:15:43 EST 2013


On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 08:27:40PM +1100, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> 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
> > 
> > ---
> > >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>

Tested-by: Michael Ellerman <michael at ellerman.id.au>

cheers


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