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    perf pmu: Support alias descriptions · 08e60ed1
    Andi Kleen authored
    Add support to print alias descriptions in perf list, which are taken
    from the generated event files.
    
    The sorting code is changed to put the events with descriptions at the
    end. The descriptions are printed as possibly multiple word wrapped
    lines.
    
    Example output:
    
    % perf list
    ...
      arith.fpu_div
           [Divide operations executed]
      arith.fpu_div_active
           [Cycles when divider is busy executing divide operations]
    
    Committer notes:
    
    Further testing on a Broadwell machine (ThinkPad t450s), using these
    files:
    
      $ find tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/x86/
      tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/x86/
      tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/x86/Broadwell
      tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/x86/Broadwell/Cache.json
      tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/x86/Broadwell/Other.json
      tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/x86/Broadwell/Frontend.json
      tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/x86/Broadwell/Virtual-Memory.json
      tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/x86/Broadwell/Pipeline.json
      tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/x86/Broadwell/Floating-point.json
      tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/x86/Broadwell/Memory.json
      tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/x86/mapfile.csv
      $
    
    Taken from:
    
    https://github.com/sukadev/linux/tree/json-code+data-v21/tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/x86/
    
    to get this machinery to actually parse JSON files, generate
    $(OUTPUT)pmu-events/pmu-events.c, compile it and link it with perf, that
    will then use the table it contains, these files will be submitted right
    after this patchkit.
    
      [acme@jouet linux]$ perf list page_walker
    
      List of pre-defined events (to be used in -e):
    
        page_walker_loads.dtlb_l1
             [Number of DTLB page walker hits in the L1+FB]
        page_walker_loads.dtlb_l2
             [Number of DTLB page walker hits in the L2]
        page_walker_loads.dtlb_l3
             [Number of DTLB page walker hits in the L3 + XSNP]
        page_walker_loads.dtlb_memory
             [Number of DTLB page walker hits in Memory]
        page_walker_loads.itlb_l1
             [Number of ITLB page walker hits in the L1+FB]
        page_walker_loads.itlb_l2
             [Number of ITLB page walker hits in the L2]
        page_walker_loads.itlb_l3
             [Number of ITLB page walker hits in the L3 + XSNP]
    
    [acme@jouet linux]$
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarSukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
    Acked-by: default avatarJiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
    Tested-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
    Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
    Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
    Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1473978296-20712-7-git-send-email-sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.comSigned-off-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
    08e60ed1
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