From: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: peterz@infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
mingo@kernel.org, eranian@google.com,
Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>,
Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add some documentation on the perf sysfs ABI interface
Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2014 15:23:51 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140914132351.GD1731@krava.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1410561259-523-1-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org>
On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 03:34:19PM -0700, Andi Kleen wrote:
> From: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
>
> Initial attempt of documenting the perf sysfs interface as
> an ABI. I also added some additional pointers hopefully useful
> to the users. Comments welcome.
>
> Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
> Cc: jolsa@redhat.com
> v2: Various fixes. Fix cmask/inv (Stephane) Fixes from Randy Dunlap.
> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
> ---
> Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-devices-perf | 98 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 98 insertions(+)
> create mode 100644 Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-devices-perf
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-devices-perf b/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-devices-perf
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000..3fd9bc6
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-devices-perf
> @@ -0,0 +1,98 @@
> +Perf events enumeration in sysfs
> +
> +The perf events subsystem exports the format of hardware performance
> +counter events supported by perf events. The events can be accessed
> +using the perf_event_open() syscall. Each perf directory in devices
> +represents a distinct PMU (Performance Monitoring Unit), but not all
> +directories in this file are perf directories.
s/in this file/in this directory/ ?
otherwise it looks ok to me
jirka
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-09-14 13:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-09-12 22:34 [PATCH] Add some documentation on the perf sysfs ABI interface Andi Kleen
2014-09-14 9:30 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-09-14 15:34 ` Greg KH
2014-09-14 15:44 ` Andi Kleen
2014-09-14 15:53 ` Greg KH
2014-09-14 13:23 ` Jiri Olsa [this message]
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2014-09-15 22:47 Andi Kleen
2014-09-09 17:32 Andi Kleen
2014-09-09 19:01 ` Stephane Eranian
2014-09-09 20:11 ` Andi Kleen
2014-09-09 20:57 ` Randy Dunlap
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