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perf Documentation: Add event parameters

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Event parameters are a basic way for partial events to be specified in
sysfs with per-event names given to the fields that need to be filled in
when using a particular event.

It is intended for supporting cases where the single 'cpu' parameter is
insufficient. For example, POWER 8 has events for physical
sockets/cores/cpus that are accessible from with virtual machines. To
keep using the single 'cpu' parameter we'd need to perform a mapping
between Linux's cpus and the physical machine's cpus (in this case Linux
is running under a hypervisor). This isn't possible because bindings
between our cpus and physical cpus may not be fixed, and we probably
won't have a "cpu" on each physical cpu.

Signed-off-by: Cody P Schafer <cody@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Cody P Schafer <dev@codyps.com>
Cc: Haren Myneni <hbabu@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1420679633-28856-4-git-send-email-sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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@ -52,12 +52,18 @@ Description: Per-pmu performance monitoring events specific to the running syste
event=0x2abc
event=0x423,inv,cmask=0x3
domain=0x1,offset=0x8,starting_index=0xffff
domain=0x1,offset=0x8,core=?
Each of the assignments indicates a value to be assigned to a
particular set of bits (as defined by the format file
corresponding to the <term>) in the perf_event structure passed
to the perf_open syscall.
In the case of the last example, a value replacing "?" would
need to be provided by the user selecting the particular event.
This is referred to as "event parameterization". Event
parameters have the format 'param=?'.
What: /sys/bus/event_source/devices/<pmu>/events/<event>.unit
Date: 2014/02/24
Contact: Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>