diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-list.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-list.txt index a922a95289a9cc..57384a97c04f42 100644 --- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-list.txt +++ b/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)]