From de9708f736dbd8b336f4f723b2fad2fe4ff03b61 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Ellerman Date: Fri, 10 May 2013 17:33:00 +0200 Subject: perf: Expand definition of sysfs format attribute Make it explicit that the format attributes may define overlapping bit ranges. Unfortunately this was left unspecified originally, and all the examples show non-overlapping ranges. I don't believe this is an ABI change, as we are defining something that was previously undefined, but others may disagree. The POWER8 PMU would like to define overlapping ranges, as bit ranges in the event code have different meanings for certain events. It will also allow us to define an overarching "event" field, that encompasses all others. As far as I can see perf is comfortable with this change, however I am not sure if there are any other users of the interface. Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Corey Ashford Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Stephane Eranian Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1368199980-20283-1-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo --- Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-event_source-devices-format | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation/ABI') diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-event_source-devices-format b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-event_source-devices-format index 079afc71363..77f47ff5ee0 100644 --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-event_source-devices-format +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-event_source-devices-format @@ -9,6 +9,12 @@ Description: we want to export, so that userspace can deal with sane name/value pairs. + Userspace must be prepared for the possibility that attributes + define overlapping bit ranges. For example: + attr1 = 'config:0-23' + attr2 = 'config:0-7' + attr3 = 'config:12-35' + Example: 'config1:1,6-10,44' Defines contents of attribute that occupies bits 1,6-10,44 of perf_event_attr::config1. -- cgit v1.2.3