# \[RESEND PATCH v5 4/4\] docs: ABI: sysfs-bus-nvdimm: Document sysfs event format entries for nvdimm pmu

- From: Kajol Jain \<hidden\>
- Date: 2021-11-16 04:52:10 
- List: linuxppc-dev
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/linuxppc-dev/2021/11/1575764
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/linuxppc-dev/2021/11/1575760/t.md

```text
Details are added for the event, cpumask and format attributes
in the ABI documentation.

Signed-off-by: Kajol Jain <redacted>
---
 Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-nvdimm | 35 ++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 35 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-nvdimm b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-nvdimm
index bff84a16812a..64004d5e4840 100644
--- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-nvdimm
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-nvdimm
@@ -6,3 +6,38 @@ Description:
 
 The libnvdimm sub-system implements a common sysfs interface for
 platform nvdimm resources. See Documentation/driver-api/nvdimm/.
+
+What:           /sys/bus/event_source/devices/nmemX/format
+Date:           September 2021
+KernelVersion:  5.16
+Contact:        Kajol Jain <kjain@linux.ibm.com>
+Description:	(RO) Attribute group to describe the magic bits
+		that go into perf_event_attr.config for a particular pmu.
+		(See ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-event_source-devices-format).
+
+		Each attribute under this group defines a bit range of the
+		perf_event_attr.config. Supported attribute is listed
+		below::
+		  event  = "config:0-4"  - event ID
+
+		For example::
+			ctl_res_cnt = "event=0x1"
+
+What:           /sys/bus/event_source/devices/nmemX/events
+Date:           September 2021
+KernelVersion:  5.16
+Contact:        Kajol Jain <kjain@linux.ibm.com>
+Description:	(RO) Attribute group to describe performance monitoring events
+                for the nvdimm memory device. Each attribute in this group
+                describes a single performance monitoring event supported by
+                this nvdimm pmu.  The name of the file is the name of the event.
+                (See ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-event_source-devices-events). A
+                listing of the events supported by a given nvdimm provider type
+                can be found in Documentation/driver-api/nvdimm/$provider.
+
+What:          /sys/bus/event_source/devices/nmemX/cpumask
+Date:          September 2021
+KernelVersion:  5.16
+Contact:        Kajol Jain <kjain@linux.ibm.com>
+Description:	(RO) This sysfs file exposes the cpumask which is designated to
+		to retrieve nvdimm pmu event counter data.
-- 
2.26.2

```
