perf docs: Update link to AMD documentation

This updates the link to documentation on AMD processors.  The new link
points to a page where users can find the Processor Programming
Reference (PPR) documents for the family and model codes corresponding
to processors they are using.

Signed-off-by: Sandipan Das <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
Cc: Ananth Narayan <[email protected]>
Cc: Kajol Jain <[email protected]>
Cc: Kim Phillips <[email protected]>
Cc: Ravi Bangoria <[email protected]>
Cc: Robert Richter <[email protected]>
Cc: Santosh Shukla <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>

tools/perf/Documentation/perf-list.txt

@@ -81,7 +81,11 @@ On AMD systems it is implemented using IBS (up to precise-level 2).
 The precise modifier works with event types 0x76 (cpu-cycles, CPU
 clocks not halted) and 0xC1 (micro-ops retired). Both events map to
 IBS execution sampling (IBS op) with the IBS Op Counter Control bit
-(IbsOpCntCtl) set respectively (see AMD64 Architecture Programmer’s
+(IbsOpCntCtl) set respectively (see the
+Core Complex (CCX) -> Processor x86 Core -> Instruction Based Sampling (IBS)
+section of the [AMD Processor Programming Reference (PPR)] relevant to the
+family, model and stepping of the processor being used).
+
 Manual Volume 2: System Programming, 13.3 Instruction-Based
 Sampling). Examples to use IBS:
 
@@ -96,8 +100,10 @@ it can be encoded in a per processor specific way.
 
 For instance on x86 CPUs, N is a hexadecimal value that represents the raw register encoding with the
 layout of IA32_PERFEVTSELx MSRs (see [Intel® 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer's Manual Volume 3B: System Programming Guide] Figure 30-1 Layout
-of IA32_PERFEVTSELx MSRs) or AMD's PerfEvtSeln (see [AMD64 Architecture Programmer’s Manual Volume 2: System Programming], Page 344,
-Figure 13-7 Performance Event-Select Register (PerfEvtSeln)).
+of IA32_PERFEVTSELx MSRs) or AMD's PERF_CTL MSRs (see the
+Core Complex (CCX) -> Processor x86 Core -> MSR Registers section of the
+[AMD Processor Programming Reference (PPR)] relevant to the family, model
+and stepping of the processor being used).
 
 Note: Only the following bit fields can be set in x86 counter
 registers: event, umask, edge, inv, cmask. Esp. guest/host only and
@@ -348,4 +354,4 @@ SEE ALSO
 linkperf:perf-stat[1], linkperf:perf-top[1],
 linkperf:perf-record[1],
 http://www.intel.com/sdm/[Intel® 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer's Manual Volume 3B: System Programming Guide],
-http://support.amd.com/us/Processor_TechDocs/24593_APM_v2.pdf[AMD64 Architecture Programmer’s Manual Volume 2: System Programming]
+https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=206537[AMD Processor Programming Reference (PPR)]