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Add documentation for the <event>, <event>.scale, and <event>.unit
files in sysfs.

	<event>.scale and <event>.unit were undocumented.
	<event> was previously documented only for specific powerpc pmu events.

Signed-off-by: Cody P Schafer <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <[email protected]>
Cc: Andi Kleen <[email protected]>
Cc: Anshuman Khandual <[email protected]>
Cc: Cody P Schafer <[email protected]>
Cc: Haren Myneni <[email protected]>
Cc: Haren Myneni <[email protected]>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
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Expand Up @@ -599,3 +599,63 @@ Description: POWER-systems specific performance monitoring events
Further, multiple terms like 'event=0xNNNN' can be specified
and separated with comma. All available terms are defined in
the /sys/bus/event_source/devices/<dev>/format file.

What: /sys/bus/event_source/devices/<pmu>/events/<event>
Date: 2014/02/24
Contact: Linux kernel mailing list <[email protected]>
Description: Per-pmu performance monitoring events specific to the running system

Each file (except for some of those with a '.' in them, '.unit'
and '.scale') in the 'events' directory describes a single
performance monitoring event supported by the <pmu>. The name
of the file is the name of the event.

File contents:

<term>[=<value>][,<term>[=<value>]]...

Where <term> is one of the terms listed under
/sys/bus/event_source/devices/<pmu>/format/ and <value> is
a number is base-16 format with a '0x' prefix (lowercase only).
If a <term> is specified alone (without an assigned value), it
is implied that 0x1 is assigned to that <term>.

Examples (each of these lines would be in a seperate file):

event=0x2abc
event=0x423,inv,cmask=0x3
domain=0x1,offset=0x8,starting_index=0xffff

Each of the assignments indicates a value to be assigned to a
particular set of bits (as defined by the format file
corresponding to the <term>) in the perf_event structure passed
to the perf_open syscall.

What: /sys/bus/event_source/devices/<pmu>/events/<event>.unit
Date: 2014/02/24
Contact: Linux kernel mailing list <[email protected]>
Description: Perf event units

A string specifying the English plural numerical unit that <event>
(once multiplied by <event>.scale) represents.

Example:

Joules

What: /sys/bus/event_source/devices/<pmu>/events/<event>.scale
Date: 2014/02/24
Contact: Linux kernel mailing list <[email protected]>
Description: Perf event scaling factors

A string representing a floating point value expressed in
scientific notation to be multiplied by the event count
recieved from the kernel to match the unit specified in the
<event>.unit file.

Example:

2.3283064365386962890625e-10

This is provided to avoid performing floating point arithmetic
in the kernel.

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