perf tool: Display event codes for Generic HW (PMU) events

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== Comment: #0 - Sukadev Bhattiprolu <email address hidden> - 2016-01-26 13:49:00 ==
+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #136063 +++

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #136062 +++

Perf supports a small set of so-called "generic" PMU events like "cycles",
"instructions" etc. But most CPUs support a wide variety of events, several
closely related to run cycles or instructions or branches etc. For performance
analysis it would be useful to know precisely which PMU event is being
monitored by a generic event. This feature is to design/implement a mechanism
to display the precise raw event codes for the generic events in a suitable
file in sysfs.

Following is a posting of the small patch set to the community

   https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/1/11/982

== Comment: #3 - Diane Brent <email address hidden> - 2016-03-01 13:59:30 ==
Any new news from maintainer? When is deemed too late to try to get this in 16.04? Feature freeze is passed. Kernel freeze is 4/07. Will this target 16.04.1/16.10?

== Comment: #5 - Sukadev Bhattiprolu <email address hidden> - 2016-03-23 20:44:20 ==
The patches were merged into mainline recently:

commit d4969e2
Author: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <email address hidden>
Date: Mon Jan 11 14:55:25 2016 -0800

    powerpc/perf: Remove PME_ prefix for power7 events

commit e0728b5
Author: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <email address hidden>
Date: Mon Jan 11 14:55:26 2016 -0800

    powerpc/perf: Export Power8 generic and cache events to sysfs

http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/arch/powerpc/perf/power7-pmu.c?id=d4969e2459c6e852a6862256cf8e869aaa3e8adf
http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/arch/powerpc/perf/power8-pmu.c?id=e0728b50d480da6be228dd160a43b37e4c0b1636

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------- Comment From <email address hidden> 2016-01-26 13:49 EDT-------

------- Comment From <email address hidden> 2016-03-01 13:59 EDT-------

------- Comment From <email address hidden> 2016-03-23 20:44 EDT-------

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #136063 +++

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #136062 +++

Perf supports a small set of so-called "generic" PMU events like "cycles",
"instructions" etc. But most CPUs support a wide variety of events, several
closely related to run cycles or instructions or branches etc. For performance
analysis it would be useful to know precisely which PMU event is being
monitored by a generic event. This feature is to design/implement a mechanism
to display the precise raw event codes for the generic events in a suitable
file in sysfs.

Following is a posting of the small patch set to the community

https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/1/11/982

Any new news from maintainer? When is deemed too late to try to get this in 16.04? Feature freeze is passed. Kernel freeze is 4/07. Will this target 16.04.1/16.10?

The patches were merged into mainline recently:

commit d4969e2
Author: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <email address hidden>
Date: Mon Jan 11 14:55:25 2016 -0800

powerpc/perf: Remove PME_ prefix for power7 events

commit e0728b5
Author: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <email address hidden>
Date: Mon Jan 11 14:55:26 2016 -0800

powerpc/perf: Export Power8 generic and cache events to sysfs

http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/arch/powerpc/perf/power7-pmu.c?id=d4969e2459c6e852a6862256cf8e869aaa3e8adf
http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/arch/powerpc/perf/power8-pmu.c?id=e0728b50d480da6be228dd160a43b37e4c0b1636

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------- Comment From <email address hidden> 2016-06-21 11:38 EDT-------
Verified the feature:

? cpu uname -a
Linux 1610 4.6.0-6-generic #7-Ubuntu SMP Tue May 17 16:25:53 UTC 2016 ppc64le ppc64le ppc64le GNU/Linux
? cpu cd /sys/bus/event_source/devices/cpu/events
? events ls
branch-instructions instructions L1-icache-prefetches
branch-load-misses iTLB-load-misses LLC-load-misses
branch-loads L1-dcache-load-misses LLC-loads
branch-misses L1-dcache-loads LLC-prefetches
cache-misses L1-dcache-prefetches LLC-store-misses
cache-references L1-dcache-store-misses LLC-stores
cpu-cycles L1-icache-load-misses stalled-cycles-backend
dTLB-load-misses L1-icache-loads stalled-cycles-frontend
? events cat branch-instructions
event=0x10068
? events cat L1-icache-load-misses
event=0x200fd

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This bug was fixed in the package linux - 4.4.0-28.47

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