Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755420Ab2FOH3W (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Jun 2012 03:29:22 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:60769 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751478Ab2FOH3V (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Jun 2012 03:29:21 -0400 Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2012 09:29:04 +0200 From: Jiri Olsa To: Stephane Eranian Cc: Peter Zijlstra , acme@redhat.com, mingo@elte.hu, paulus@samba.org, cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com, fweisbec@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6] perf, x86: Making hardware events tranlations sysfs available Message-ID: <20120615072904.GA1767@m.brq.redhat.com> References: <1339706321-8802-1-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com> <1339706321-8802-2-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com> <1339708192.2559.40.camel@twins> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2278 Lines: 57 On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 11:36:51PM +0200, Stephane Eranian wrote: > On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 11:09 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > On Thu, 2012-06-14 at 22:38 +0200, Jiri Olsa wrote: > >> Making hardware events tranlations available throught the sysfs. > >> Adding 'events' group attribute under the sysfs x86 PMU record > >> with attribute/file for each hardware event: > >> > >> ? # ls ?/sys/devices/cpu/events/ > >> ? branch_instructions > >> ? branch_misses > >> ? bus_cycles > >> ? cache_misses > >> ? cache_references > >> ? cycles > >> ? instructions > >> ? ref_cycles > >> ? stalled_cycles_backend > >> ? stalled_cycles_frontend > >> > >> The file - ID mappings is: > >> > >> ? file ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?hw id > >> ? ---------------------------------------------------------------- > >> ? cycles ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?PERF_COUNT_HW_CPU_CYCLES > >> ? instructions ? ? ? ? ? ? ?PERF_COUNT_HW_INSTRUCTIONS > >> ? cache_references ? ? ? ? ?PERF_COUNT_HW_CACHE_REFERENCES > >> ? cache_misses ? ? ? ? ? ? ?PERF_COUNT_HW_CACHE_MISSES > >> ? branch_instructions ? ? ? PERF_COUNT_HW_BRANCH_INSTRUCTIONS > >> ? branch_misses ? ? ? ? ? ? PERF_COUNT_HW_BRANCH_MISSES > >> ? bus_cycles ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?PERF_COUNT_HW_BUS_CYCLES > >> ? stalled_cycles_frontend ? PERF_COUNT_HW_STALLED_CYCLES_FRONTEND > >> ? stalled_cycles_backend ? ?PERF_COUNT_HW_STALLED_CYCLES_BACKEND > >> ? ref_cycles ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?PERF_COUNT_HW_REF_CPU_CYCLES > >> > >> Each attribute/file contains HW ID event translation for the currently > >> running CPU model > >> > >> ? # cat /sys/devices/cpu/events/instructions > >> ? 0xc0 > > > > Why not have it consistent with the stuff done for uncore where events > > read: 'event=0xc0', ie the regular field=value stuff. > > > Yes, you want that. Because those events may need more than a code. > You want full syntax capability. So return a string. humm... right :) how about the term name 'event=...', could I always assume it's 'event', or do we want some arch specific connection for that? jirka -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/