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| author | Kim Phillips <kim.phillips@amd.com> | 2019-09-19 15:43:04 -0500 |
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| committer | Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> | 2019-09-25 09:51:42 -0300 |
| commit | 93125562ce385fc0322e010003767d656677bdef (patch) | |
| tree | 76c7d831bdff36fe74bc73a7e897ca3c9e4e2786 /tools/perf/pmu-events | |
| parent | 0c03d3aa255b5d3a7b64051a79f6e9f487194a9f (diff) | |
| download | linux-93125562ce385fc0322e010003767d656677bdef.tar.gz | |
perf vendor events: Minor fixes to the README
Some grammatical fixes, and updates to some path references that have since changed. Signed-off-by: Kim Phillips <kim.phillips@amd.com> Reviewed-by: Andi 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: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/perf/pmu-events')
| -rw-r--r-- | tools/perf/pmu-events/README | 22 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/pmu-events/README b/tools/perf/pmu-events/README index e62b09b6a844..de7efa2cebd1 100644 --- a/tools/perf/pmu-events/README +++ b/tools/perf/pmu-events/README @@ -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'. |