The powerpc cpuid information includes chip revision information.
Changes between chip revisions are usually minor bug fixes and usually
do not affect the operation of the performance monitoring hardware.
The original mapfile.csv matching requires enumerating every possible
cpuid string. When a new minor chip revision is produced a new entry
has to be added to the mapfile.csv and the code recompiled to allow perf
to have the implementation specific perf events for this new minor
revision. For users of various distibutions of Linux having to wait for
a new release of the kernel's perf tool to be built with these trivial
patches is inconvenient.
Using regular expressions rather than exactly string matching of the
entire cpuid string allows developers to write mapfile.csv files that do
not require patches and recompiles for each of these minor version
changes. If special cases need to be made for some particular versions,
they can be placed earlier in the mapfile.csv file before the more
general matches.
Signed-off-by: William Cohen <wcohen@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Michael Petlan <mpetlan@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Shriya <shriyak@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171204145728.16792-1-wcohen@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Drop the .json suffix for events directory in the mapfile.csv.
Now that we have separate JSON files for each topic in a CPU (eg: see
tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/powerpc/power8/*.json) the .json suffix in
the mapfile is misleading and redundant.
Reported-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@au1.ibm.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170802174617.GA32545@us.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Add mapfile.csv and power8.json files for the Power8 processor.
Changelog[v3]
- [Namhyung Kim] Remove text from PublicDescription fields if it is
identical to or prefix of BriefDescription.
Changelog[v2]
- [Andi Kleen] Replace the vendor-family-model,version fields with
cpuid,version fields (to simplify mapfile)
- Reuse the JSON files when possible (i.e multiple cpuids can refer
to the same JSON file) - so drop the 004d0100.json and use
power8.json in multiple entries in mapfile.
- Add few more Power8 PVRs to mapfile
Changelog[v21]
- Group events into per topic per cpu model.
Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
CC: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-wr6rf3d3vvggy8180ftt2ro1@git.kernel.org
[ Lowercased the directory and file names ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
