On 01-12-25, 12:24, Samuel Wu wrote:
> This series replaces the cpu_frequency trace event with a new trace event,
> policy_frequency. Since by definition all CPUs in a policy are of the same
> frequency, we can emit a frequency change per policy instead of per CPU.
> This saves some compute and memory from the kernel side, while simplifying
> analysis from the post-processing of the trace log side.
> 
> Any process that relied on cpu_frequency trace event needs to switch to the
> new policy_frequency trace event in order to maintain functionality. The
> decision of replacing instead of adding the trace event is intentional. Since
> emitting once per policy instead of once per CPU is anyways a semantics change
> that would require a tooling update, the trace event was also appropriately
> renamed. The presence of the policy_frequency event in a trace log is a clear
> and obvious signal for tooling to determine kernel version and which trace
> event to parse.
> 
> 1/2: Replaces trace_cpu_frequency with trace_policy_frequency
> 2/2: Corresponding documentation patch that updates references to
>      cpu_frequency with policy_frequency
> 
> Changes in v3:
> - Resending v2 properly (accidentally ommited cover letter in v2)
> 
> Changes in v2:
> - Replaced trace_cpu_frequency with trace_policy_frequency (per Christian
>   and Viresh)
> - Updated references to cpu_frequency in documentation with
>   policy_frequency
> - v1 link: 
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email protected]
> 
> Samuel Wu (2):
>   cpufreq: Replace trace_cpu_frequency with trace_policy_frequency
>   cpufreq: Documentation update for trace_policy_frequency
> 
>  Documentation/admin-guide/pm/amd-pstate.rst   | 10 ++++----
>  Documentation/admin-guide/pm/intel_pstate.rst | 14 +++++------
>  Documentation/trace/events-power.rst          |  2 +-
>  drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c                     | 14 ++---------
>  drivers/cpufreq/intel_pstate.c                |  6 +++--
>  include/trace/events/power.h                  | 24 ++++++++++++++++---
>  kernel/trace/power-traces.c                   |  2 +-
>  samples/bpf/cpustat_kern.c                    |  8 +++----
>  samples/bpf/cpustat_user.c                    |  6 ++---
>  tools/perf/builtin-timechart.c                | 12 +++++-----
>  10 files changed, 54 insertions(+), 44 deletions(-)

Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <[email protected]>

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viresh

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