Re: [PATCH v6 6/6] perf vendor events arm64: Update N2 and V2 metrics and events using Arm telemetry repo

[John Garry <john.g.garry@oracle.com>]

On 16/08/2023 12:47, James Clark wrote:
> Apart from some slight naming and grouping differences, the new metrics
> are functionally the same as the existing ones. Any missing metrics were
> manually appended to the end of the auto generated file.
> 
> For the events, the new data includes descriptions that may have product
> specific details and new groupings that will be consistent with other
> products.
> 
> After generating the metrics from the telemetry repo [1], the following
> manual steps were performed:
> 
>   * Change the topdown expressions to compare on CPUID and use
>     #slots so that the same data can be shared between N2 and V2. Apart
>     from these modifications, the expressions now match more closely with
>     the Arm telemetry data which will hopefully make future updates
>     easier.
> 
>   * Append some metrics from the old N2/V2 data that aren't present in
>     the telemetry data. These will possibly be added to the
>     telemetry-solution repo at a later time:
> 
>      l3d_cache_mpki, l3d_cache_miss_rate, branch_pki, ipc_rate, spec_ipc,
>      retired_rate, wasted_rate, branch_immed_spec_rate,
>      branch_return_spec_rate, branch_indirect_spec_rate
> 
> [1]:https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://gitlab.arm.com/telemetry-solution/telemetry-solution/-/blob/main/data/pmu/cpu/neoverse/neoverse-n2.json__;!!ACWV5N9M2RV99hQ!NW7DYe7T69u8RFn9WLyiCcoHm-8BtlxNK3PRw19udocwlwv0vQpjcSDT5XqGbWzvPQyFrG-eRkuu_VZt7cO8-Q$  
> 
> Signed-off-by: James Clark<james.clark@arm.com>

Reviewed-by: John Garry <john.g.garry@oracle.com>