Commit 785623ee authored by Ian Rogers's avatar Ian Rogers Committed by Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

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: default avatarKan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIan 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.comSigned-off-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
parent 97c48ea8
......@@ -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.
File contents:
<term>[=<value>][,<term>[=<value>]]...
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