Commit fd851780 authored by Michael Ellerman's avatar Michael Ellerman Committed by Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf: Expand definition of sysfs format attribute

Make it explicit that the format attributes may define overlapping bit
ranges. Unfortunately this was left unspecified originally, and all the
examples show non-overlapping ranges. I don't believe this is an ABI
change, as we are defining something that was previously undefined, but
others may disagree.

The POWER8 PMU would like to define overlapping ranges, as bit ranges in
the event code have different meanings for certain events. It will also
allow us to define an overarching "event" field, that encompasses all
others.

As far as I can see perf is comfortable with this change, however I am
not sure if there are any other users of the interface.
Signed-off-by: default avatarMichael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Acked-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1368199980-20283-1-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.comSigned-off-by: default avatarJiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
parent 54aa3b99
......@@ -9,6 +9,12 @@ Description:
we want to export, so that userspace can deal with sane
name/value pairs.
Userspace must be prepared for the possibility that attributes
define overlapping bit ranges. For example:
attr1 = 'config:0-23'
attr2 = 'config:0-7'
attr3 = 'config:12-35'
Example: 'config1:1,6-10,44'
Defines contents of attribute that occupies bits 1,6-10,44 of
perf_event_attr::config1.
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