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authorIan Rogers <irogers@google.com>2024-05-03 00:35:03 +0300
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2024-05-03 23:08:20 +0300
commit785623ee855e893da27d595cd7ca27bf03c13141 (patch)
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perf Document: Sysfs event names must be lower or upper case
To avoid directory scans in perf it is going to be assumed that sysfs event names are either lower or upper case. Reviewed-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: James Clark <james.clark@arm.com> Cc: Jing Zhang <renyu.zj@linux.alibaba.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Cc: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@amd.com> Cc: Thomas Richter <tmricht@linux.ibm.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240502213507.2339733-3-irogers@google.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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--- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-event_source-devices-events
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@@ -37,6 +37,12 @@ Description: Per-pmu performance monitoring events specific to the running syste
performance monitoring event supported by the <pmu>. The name
of the file is the name of the event.
+ As performance monitoring event names are case
+ insensitive in the perf tool, the perf tool only looks
+ for lower or upper case event names in sysfs to avoid
+ scanning the directory. It is therefore required the
+ name of the event here is either lower or upper case.
+
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