From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from e34.co.us.ibm.com (e34.co.us.ibm.com [32.97.110.152]) (using TLSv1 with cipher CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by lists.ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E4F4C1A1D82 for ; Wed, 12 Aug 2015 06:08:57 +1000 (AEST) Received: from /spool/local by e34.co.us.ibm.com with IBM ESMTP SMTP Gateway: Authorized Use Only! Violators will be prosecuted for from ; Tue, 11 Aug 2015 14:08:55 -0600 Received: from b03cxnp08026.gho.boulder.ibm.com (b03cxnp08026.gho.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.130.18]) by d03dlp02.boulder.ibm.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 810813E4004E for ; Tue, 11 Aug 2015 14:08:52 -0600 (MDT) Received: from d03av04.boulder.ibm.com (d03av04.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.170]) by b03cxnp08026.gho.boulder.ibm.com (8.14.9/8.14.9/NCO v10.0) with ESMTP id t7BK8EJb34603236 for ; Tue, 11 Aug 2015 13:08:14 -0700 Received: from d03av04.boulder.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d03av04.boulder.ibm.com (8.14.4/8.14.4/NCO v10.0 AVout) with ESMTP id t7BK8pGP027128 for ; Tue, 11 Aug 2015 14:08:52 -0600 Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2015 13:07:24 -0700 From: Sukadev Bhattiprolu To: mingo@redhat.com, ak@linux.intel.com, Michael Ellerman , Jiri Olsa , Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: namhyung@kernel.org, maddy@linux.vnet.ibm.com, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH V15 00/19] perf, tools: Add support for PMU events in JSON format Message-ID: <20150811200724.GA10078@us.ibm.com> References: <1433921123-25327-1-git-send-email-sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <1433921123-25327-1-git-send-email-sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com> List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sukadev Bhattiprolu [sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com] wrote: | CPUs support a large number of performance monitoring events (PMU events) | and often these events are very specific to an architecture/model of the | CPU. To use most of these PMU events with perf, we currently have to identify | them by their raw codes: | | perf stat -e r100f2 sleep 1 | | This patchset allows architectures to specify these PMU events in JSON | files located in 'tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/' of the mainline tree. | The events from the JSON files for the architecture are then built into | the perf binary. | | At run time, perf identifies the specific set of events for the CPU and | creates "event aliases". These aliases allow users to specify events by | "name" as: | | perf stat -e pm_1plus_ppc_cmpl sleep 1 | | The file, 'tools/perf/pmu-events/README' in [PATCH 19/19] gives more | details. | | Note: | - All known events tables for the architecture are included in the | perf binary. | | - For architectures that don't have any JSON files, an empty mapping | table is created and they should continue to build) | | Thanks to input from Andi Kleen, Jiri Olsa, Namhyung Kim and Ingo Molnar. | | These patches are available from: | | https://github.com:sukadev/linux.git | | Branch Description | ------------------------------------------------------ | json-v15 Source Code only | json-files-5 x86 and Powerpc datafiles only | json-v15-with-data Both code and data (build/test) | | NOTE: Only "source code" patches (i.e those in json-v15) are being emailed. | Please pull the "data files" from the json-files-5 branch. Ingo, Arnaldo, Any updates on this patchset? They have been reviewed/acked by Jiri and we have not received any comments since then. Is there a chance this can make it into 4.3? Sukadev