[PATCH V3 2/2] docs: ABI: sysfs-bus-event_source-devices: Document sysfs caps entry for PMU
Athira Rajeev
atrajeev at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Fri May 20 18:46:30 AEST 2022
Details is added about "caps" attribute group in the ABI documentation.
This is used to expose some of the PMU attributes in "caps"
directory under : /sys/bus/event_source/devices/<dev>/. The dev/caps
will contain information about features that platform specific PMU
supports.
Signed-off-by: Athira Rajeev <atrajeev at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
.../sysfs-bus-event_source-devices-caps | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 18 insertions(+)
create mode 100644 Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-event_source-devices-caps
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-event_source-devices-caps b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-event_source-devices-caps
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..8757dcf41c08
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-event_source-devices-caps
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+What: /sys/bus/event_source/devices/<dev>/caps
+Date: May 2022
+KernelVersion: 5.19
+Contact: Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org>
+Description:
+ Attribute group to describe the capabilities exposed
+ for a particular pmu. Each attribute of this group can
+ expose information specific to a PMU, say pmu_name, so that
+ userspace can understand some of the feature which the
+ platform specific PMU supports.
+
+ One of the example available capability in supported platform
+ like Intel is pmu_name, which exposes underlying CPU name known
+ to the PMU driver.
+
+ Example output in powerpc:
+ grep . /sys/bus/event_source/devices/cpu/caps/*
+ /sys/bus/event_source/devices/cpu/caps/pmu_name:POWER9
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