[PATCH v3 3/4] powerpc/perf: PowerISA v3.0 raw event format encoding

Michael Ellerman mpe at ellerman.id.au
Tue Nov 29 15:36:00 AEDT 2016


Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy at linux.vnet.ibm.com> writes:

> Patch to update the PowerISA v3.0 raw event encoding format
> information and add support for the same in Power9-pmu.c.

I'm not sure if calling this the "PowerISA v3.0" encoding is right. It's
not actually specified in the ISA anywhere right?

Maybe it should just be the "P9 encoding" ?

Though admittedly that is slightly confusing because P9 DD1 doesn't
implement it.

cheers


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