Re: [GIT PULL] Please pull JSON files for Power9 PMU events

[Michael Ellerman]

Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Thu, Jul 13, 2017 at 01:43:41PM +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote:
>> Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>> ...
>> >
>> >  tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/powerpc/mapfile.csv     |   3 +
>> >  .../perf/pmu-events/arch/powerpc/power9/cache.json | 176 +++++
>> >  .../arch/powerpc/power9/floating-point.json        |  44 ++
>> >  .../pmu-events/arch/powerpc/power9/frontend.json   | 446 +++++++++++
>> >  .../pmu-events/arch/powerpc/power9/marked.json     | 782 +++++++++++++++++++
>> >  .../pmu-events/arch/powerpc/power9/memory.json     | 158 ++++
>> 
>> In the map file we have "power9.json", but the files are power9/x.json.
>> How does that work?
>
> hum, we take just the base name from that string and use it
> as a map to the directory/struct with events.. so no harm done

I figured it must be working somehow but it's a bit odd :)

> I guess it's the leftover from when we switched from single file
> to per topic event files.. x86 arch seems to have it right

Yep.

> I'll send the fix

Thanks.

cheers