perf list: Add explanation about raw hardware event descriptors

Using explanation given by Ingo Molnar in the oprofile mailing list.
Suggested-by: default avatarNick 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: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
parent db620b1c
...@@ -15,6 +15,24 @@ DESCRIPTION ...@@ -15,6 +15,24 @@ DESCRIPTION
This command displays the symbolic event types which can be selected in the This command displays the symbolic event types which can be selected in the
various perf commands with the -e option. 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 OPTIONS
------- -------
None None
......
...@@ -936,7 +936,7 @@ void print_events(void) ...@@ -936,7 +936,7 @@ void print_events(void)
printf("\n"); printf("\n");
printf(" %-42s [%s]\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("\n");
printf(" %-42s [%s]\n", printf(" %-42s [%s]\n",
......
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