Comment 6 for bug 1481347

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[SRU Justification]
This feature provides the latest core and nest PMU events which it comes with the skiboot on Power P9 Arch.

Those patches are available on mainline kernel tree in tags/powerpc-4.14-1~314 .

The commit is a clean cherry pick in Artful.

[Testcase]
1 - Verify if the perf has the PMU events available via the latest version of skiboot.
# perf list | grep core_imc
# perf list | grep nest_
# perf list | grep thread_imc

2 - Test couple of them like that:
# ./perf stat -e nest_mcs0/PM_MCS_UP_128B_DATA_XFER_MC2/ -a -A sleep 5