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| -rw-r--r-- | tools/perf/Documentation/perf-list.txt | 18 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | tools/perf/util/parse-events.c | 2 |
2 files changed, 19 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-list.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-list.txt index 8290b942266..ad765e0b886 100644 --- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-list.txt +++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-list.txt @@ -15,6 +15,24 @@ DESCRIPTION This command displays the symbolic event types which can be selected in the various perf commands with the -e option. +RAW HARDWARE EVENT DESCRIPTOR +----------------------------- +Even when an event is not available in a symbolic form within perf right now, +it can be encoded as <UMASK VALUE><EVENT NUM>, for instance, if the Intel docs +describe an event as: + + Event Umask Event Mask + Num. Value Mnemonic Description Comment + + A8H 01H LSD.UOPS Counts the number of micro-ops Use cmask=1 and + delivered by loop stream detector invert to count + cycles + +raw encoding of 0x1A8 can be used: + + perf stat -e r1a8 -a sleep 1 + perf record -e r1a8 ... + OPTIONS ------- None diff --git a/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c b/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c index 600d3271425..bc8b7e61420 100644 --- a/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c +++ b/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c @@ -936,7 +936,7 @@ void print_events(void) printf("\n"); printf(" %-42s [%s]\n", - "rNNN", event_type_descriptors[PERF_TYPE_RAW]); + "rNNN (NNN=<UMASK VALUE><EVENT NUM>)", event_type_descriptors[PERF_TYPE_RAW]); printf("\n"); printf(" %-42s [%s]\n", |