Thread (14 messages) 14 messages, 3 authors, 2013-03-13

Re: [PATCH 5/6][v4]: perf: Create a sysfs entry for Power event format

From: Michael Ellerman <hidden>
Date: 2013-02-27 01:17:31
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On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 12:03:43PM -0800, Sukadev Bhattiprolu wrote:
Michael Ellerman [michael@ellerman.id.au] wrote:
| On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 10:26:13PM -0800, Sukadev Bhattiprolu wrote:
| > 
| > [PATCH 5/6][v4]: perf: Create a sysfs entry for Power event format
| > 
| > Create a sysfs entry, '/sys/bus/event_source/devices/cpu/format/event'
| > which describes the format of a POWER cpu.
| 
| Did this patch go upstream? I don't see it.

Hmm, patches 1..4,6 are in linux-tip and Arnaldo's trees but patch 5 is
in neither.
I suspect Arnaldo was either waiting for an ACK from Ben, or was
expecting Ben to take it?
| > The format of the event is the same for all POWER cpus at least in
| > (Power6, Power7), so bulk of this change is common in the code common
| > to POWER cpus.
| 
| No. The event format is different on most POWER cpus, in particular it
| is different on Power6 and Power7, and will be different again on
| Power8.

Sigh.  The port of this patchset to Power6 has not started yet.
It should hardly require a port, it's about five lines. But it doesn't
matter for now.
 
But this patchset does work on Power7 correct ?
Yes, and without it the rest of the series is essentially useless. So I
guess it's better than nothing and we should get it in, we can fix it up
later to work across different chips.

Ben can you grab it, it's all arch/powerpc.

cheers
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