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Commit 93125562 authored by Kim Phillips's avatar Kim Phillips Committed by Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
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perf vendor events: Minor fixes to the README 



Some grammatical fixes, and updates to some path references that have
since changed.

Signed-off-by: default avatarKim Phillips <kim.phillips@amd.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarAndi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Janakarajan Natarajan <janakarajan.natarajan@amd.com>
Cc: Jin Yao <yao.jin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Luke Mujica <lukemujica@google.com>
Cc: Martin Liška <mliska@suse.cz>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190919204306.12598-3-kim.phillips@amd.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
parent 0c03d3aa

tools/perf/pmu-events/README

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@@ -30,9 +30,9 @@ the topic. Eg: "Floating-point.json". 
All the topic JSON files for a CPU model/family should be in a separate

sub directory. Thus for the Silvermont X86 CPU:



	$ ls tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/x86/Silvermont_core

	Cache.json 	Memory.json 	Virtual-Memory.json

	Frontend.json 	Pipeline.json

	$ ls tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/x86/silvermont

	cache.json     memory.json    virtual-memory.json

	frontend.json  pipeline.json



The JSONs folder for a CPU model/family may be placed in the root arch

folder, or may be placed in a vendor sub-folder under the arch folder
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ users to specify events by their name: 


where 'pm_1plus_ppc_cmpl' is a Power8 PMU event.



However some errors in processing may cause the perf build to fail.

However some errors in processing may cause the alias build to fail.



Mapfile format

===============
@@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ where: 


	Header line

		The header line is the first line in the file, which is

		always _IGNORED_. It can empty.

		always _IGNORED_. It can be empty.



	CPUID:

		CPUID is an arch-specific char string, that can be used
@@ -138,15 +138,15 @@ where: 
		files, relative to the directory containing the mapfile.csv



	Type:

		indicates whether the events or "core" or "uncore" events.

		indicates whether the events are "core" or "uncore" events.





	Eg:



	$ grep Silvermont tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/x86/mapfile.csv

	GenuineIntel-6-37,V13,Silvermont_core,core

	GenuineIntel-6-4D,V13,Silvermont_core,core

	GenuineIntel-6-4C,V13,Silvermont_core,core

	$ grep silvermont tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/x86/mapfile.csv

	GenuineIntel-6-37,v13,silvermont,core

	GenuineIntel-6-4D,v13,silvermont,core

	GenuineIntel-6-4C,v13,silvermont,core



	i.e the three CPU models use the JSON files (i.e PMU events) listed

	in the directory 'tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/x86/Silvermont_core'.
 
	in the directory 'tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/x86/silvermont'.