[PATCH v7 0/4] Add support for parametrized events

[Sukadev Bhattiprolu]

Description of "event parameters" from the documentation patch:

    Event parameters are a basic way for partial events to be specified in
    sysfs with per-event names given to the fields that need to be filled in
    when using a particular event.

    It is intended for supporting cases where the single 'cpu' parameter is
    insufficient. For example, POWER 8 has events for physical
    sockets/cores/cpus that are accessible from with virtual machines. To
    keep using the single 'cpu' parameter we'd need to perform a mapping
    between Linux's cpus and the physical machine's cpus (in this case
    Linux is running under a hypervisor). This isn't possible because
    bindings between our cpus and physical cpus may not be fixed, and we
    probably won't have a "cpu" on each physical cpu.

Description of the sysfs contents when events are parameterized (copied from an
included patch):

	Examples:

		domain=0x1,offset=0x8,core=?

	In the case of the last example, a value replacing "?" would need
	to be provided by the user selecting the particular event. This is
	referred to as "event parameterization".

Notes on how perf-list displays parameterized events

	PARAMETERIZED EVENTS
	--------------------

	Some pmu events listed by 'perf list' will be displayed with '=?' in
	them. For example:

	  hv_24x7/HPM_THREAD_NAP_CCYC__PHYS_CORE,core=?/

	This means that when provided as an event, a value for ? must also
	be supplied. For example:

	  perf stat  -e \
	  	'hv_24x7/HPM_THREAD_NAP_CCYC__PHYS_CORE,core=2' ...


Cody P Schafer (6):
  perf: provide sysfs_show for struct perf_pmu_events_attr
  perf: add PMU_EVENT_ATTR_STRING() helper
  powerpc/perf/hv-24x7: parse catalog and populate sysfs with events
  powerpc/perf/{hv-gpci, hv-common}: generate requests with counters
    annotated
  powerpc/perf/hv-gpci: add the remaining gpci requests
  powerpc/perf/hv-24x7: Document sysfs event description entries

Sukadev Bhattiprolu (1):
  perf: define EVENT_DEFINE_RANGE_FORMAT_LITE helper

 .../testing/sysfs-bus-event_source-devices-hv_24x7 |  22 +
 arch/powerpc/perf/hv-24x7-catalog.h                |  25 +
 arch/powerpc/perf/hv-24x7-domains.h                |  28 +
 arch/powerpc/perf/hv-24x7.c                        | 793 ++++++++++++++++++++-
 arch/powerpc/perf/hv-24x7.h                        |  12 +-
 arch/powerpc/perf/hv-common.c                      |  10 +-
 arch/powerpc/perf/hv-common.h                      |  10 +
 arch/powerpc/perf/hv-gpci-requests.h               | 261 +++++++
 arch/powerpc/perf/hv-gpci.c                        |  23 +
 arch/powerpc/perf/hv-gpci.h                        |  37 +-
 arch/powerpc/perf/req-gen/_begin.h                 |  13 +
 arch/powerpc/perf/req-gen/_clear.h                 |   5 +
 arch/powerpc/perf/req-gen/_end.h                   |   4 +
 arch/powerpc/perf/req-gen/_request-begin.h         |  15 +
 arch/powerpc/perf/req-gen/_request-end.h           |   8 +
 arch/powerpc/perf/req-gen/perf.h                   | 155 ++++
 include/linux/perf_event.h                         |  10 +
 kernel/events/core.c                               |  12 +
 18 files changed, 1396 insertions(+), 47 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 arch/powerpc/perf/hv-24x7-domains.h
 create mode 100644 arch/powerpc/perf/hv-gpci-requests.h
 create mode 100644 arch/powerpc/perf/req-gen/_begin.h
 create mode 100644 arch/powerpc/perf/req-gen/_clear.h
 create mode 100644 arch/powerpc/perf/req-gen/_end.h
 create mode 100644 arch/powerpc/perf/req-gen/_request-begin.h
 create mode 100644 arch/powerpc/perf/req-gen/_request-end.h
 create mode 100644 arch/powerpc/perf/req-gen/perf.h

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