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perf list: Add explanation about raw hardware event descriptors
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Using explanation given by Ingo Molnar in the oprofile mailing list.

Suggested-by: Nick Black <dank@qemfd.net>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Nick Black <dank@qemfd.net>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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18 changes: 18 additions & 0 deletions tools/perf/Documentation/perf-list.txt
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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
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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion tools/perf/util/parse-events.c
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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",
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