I messed up the Cc list. Fixing it now.

Sukadev Bhattiprolu [suka...@linux.vnet.ibm.com] wrote:
> CPUs support a large number of performance monitoring events (PMU events)
> and often these events are very specific to an architecture/model of the
> CPU. To use most of these PMU events with perf, we currently have to identify
> them by their raw codes:
> 
>       perf stat -e r100f2 sleep 1
> 
> This patchset allows architectures to specify these PMU events in JSON
> files located in 'tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/' of the mainline tree.
> The events from the JSON files for the architecture are then built into
> the perf binary.
> 
> At run time, perf identifies the specific set of events for the CPU and
> creates "event aliases". These aliases allow users to specify events by
> "name" as:
> 
>       perf stat -e pm_1plus_ppc_cmpl sleep 1
> 
> The file, 'tools/perf/pmu-events/README' in [PATCH 15/19] gives more
> details.
> 
> Note:
>       - All known events tables for the architecture are included in the
>         perf binary.
> 
>       - For architectures that don't have any JSON files, an empty mapping
>         table is created and they should continue to build.
> 
> Thanks to input from Andi Kleen, Jiri Olsa, Namhyung Kim and Ingo Molnar.
> 
> These patches are available from:
> 
>       https://github.com/sukadev/linux.git 
>       
>       Branch                  Description
>       ------------------------------------------------------
>       json-code-v21           Source Code only 
>       json-code+data-v21      Both code and data (for build/test/pull)
>       
> NOTE:         Only "source code" patches (i.e those in json-code-v21) are 
> being
>       emailed. Please pull the json-code+data-v21 branch for build/test.
> 
> Changelog[v21]
>       - Rebase to recent perf/core
>       - Group the PMU events supported by a CPU model into topics and
>         create a separate JSON file for each topic for each CPU (code
>         and input from Jiri Olsa).
> 
> Changelog[v20]
>       - Rebase to recent perf/core
>       - Add Patch 20/20 to allow perf-stat to work with the period= field
> 
> Changelog[v19]
>       Rebase to recent perf/core; fix couple lines >80 chars.
> 
> Changelog[v18]
>       Rebase to recent perf/core; fix minor merge conflicts.
> 
> Changelog[v17]
>       Rebase to recent perf/core; couple of small fixes to processing Intel
>       JSON files; allow case-insensitive PMU event names.
> 
> Changelog[v16]
>       Rebase to recent perf/core; fix minor merge conflicts; drop 3 patches
>       that were merged into perf/core.
> 
> Changelog[v15]
>       Code changes:
>       - Fix 'perf list' usage string and update man page.
>       - Remove a redundant __maybe_unused tag.
>       - Rebase to recent perf/core branch.
> 
>       Data files updates: json-files-5 branch
>       - Rebase to perf/intel-json-files-5 from Andi Kleen
>       - Add patch from Madhavan Srinivasan for couple more Powerpc models
> 
> Changelog[v14]
>       Comments from Jiri Olsa:
>       - Change parameter name/type for pmu_add_cpu_aliases (from void *data
>         to list_head *head)
>       - Use asprintf() in file_name_to_tablename() and simplify/reorg code.
>       - Use __weak definition from <linux/compile.h>
>       - Use fopen() with mode "w" and eliminate unlink()
>       - Remove minor TODO.
>       - Add error check for return value from strdup() in print_pmu_events().
>       - Move independent changes from patches 3,11,12 .. to separate patches
>         for easier review/backport.
>       - Clarify mapfile's "header line support" in patch description.
>       - Fix build failure with DEBUG=1
> 
>       Comment from Andi Kleen:
>       - In tools/perf/pmu-events/Build, check for 'mapfile.csv' rather than
>         'mapfile*'
> 
>       Misc:
>       - Minor changes/clarifications to tools/perf/pmu-events/README.
> 
> 
> Changelog[v13]
>       Version: Individual patches have their own history :-) that I am
>       preserving. Patchset version (v13) is for overall patchset and is
>       somewhat arbitrary.
> 
>       - Added support for "categories" of events to perf
>       - Add mapfile, jevents build dependency on pmu-events.c
>       - Silence jevents when parsing JSON files unless V=1 is specified
>       - Cleanup error messages
>       - Fix memory leak with ->cpuid
>       - Rebase to Arnaldo's tree
>       - Allow overriding CPUID via environment variable
>       - Support long descriptions for events
>       - Handle header line in mapfile.csv
>       - Cleanup JSON files (trim PublicDescription if identical to/prefix of
>         BriefDescription field)
> 
> 
> Andi Kleen (12):
>   perf, tools: Add jsmn `jasmine' JSON parser
>   perf, tools, jevents: Program to convert JSON file to C style file
>   perf, tools: Support CPU id matching for x86 v2
>   perf, tools: Support alias descriptions
>   perf, tools: Query terminal width and use in perf list
>   perf, tools: Add a --no-desc flag to perf list
>   perf, tools: Add override support for event list CPUID
>   perf, tools: Add support for event list topics
>   perf, tools, jevents: Handle header line in mapfile
>   perf, tools: Make alias matching case-insensitive
>   perf, tools, pmu-events: Fix fixed counters on Intel
>   perf, tools, pmu-events: Add Skylake frontend MSR support
> 
> Sukadev Bhattiprolu (7):
>   perf, tools: Use pmu_events table to create aliases
>   perf, tools: Support CPU ID matching for Powerpc
>   perf, tools, jevents: Add support for long descriptions
>   perf, tools: Add alias support for long descriptions
>   perf, tools: Support long descriptions with perf list
>   perf, tools: Add README for info on parsing JSON/map files
>   Allow period= in perf stat CPU event descriptions.
> 
>  tools/lib/subcmd/pager.c               |  16 +
>  tools/lib/subcmd/pager.h               |   1 +
>  tools/perf/Documentation/perf-list.txt |  12 +-
>  tools/perf/Makefile.perf               |  28 +-
>  tools/perf/arch/powerpc/util/header.c  |  11 +
>  tools/perf/arch/x86/util/header.c      |  24 +-
>  tools/perf/builtin-list.c              |  20 +-
>  tools/perf/pmu-events/Build            |  11 +
>  tools/perf/pmu-events/README           | 148 ++++++
>  tools/perf/pmu-events/jevents.c        | 811 
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  tools/perf/pmu-events/jevents.h        |  18 +
>  tools/perf/pmu-events/jsmn.c           | 313 +++++++++++++
>  tools/perf/pmu-events/jsmn.h           |  67 +++
>  tools/perf/pmu-events/json.c           | 162 +++++++
>  tools/perf/pmu-events/json.h           |  42 ++
>  tools/perf/pmu-events/pmu-events.h     |  37 ++
>  tools/perf/util/header.h               |   1 +
>  tools/perf/util/parse-events.c         |   8 +-
>  tools/perf/util/parse-events.h         |   3 +-
>  tools/perf/util/pmu.c                  | 177 ++++++-
>  tools/perf/util/pmu.h                  |   6 +-
>  21 files changed, 1880 insertions(+), 36 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 tools/perf/pmu-events/Build
>  create mode 100644 tools/perf/pmu-events/README
>  create mode 100644 tools/perf/pmu-events/jevents.c
>  create mode 100644 tools/perf/pmu-events/jevents.h
>  create mode 100644 tools/perf/pmu-events/jsmn.c
>  create mode 100644 tools/perf/pmu-events/jsmn.h
>  create mode 100644 tools/perf/pmu-events/json.c
>  create mode 100644 tools/perf/pmu-events/json.h
>  create mode 100644 tools/perf/pmu-events/pmu-events.h
> 
> -- 
> 1.8.3.1

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