Re: [PATCH] perf vendor events aarch64: Add JSON metrics for ARM Cortex-A53 Processor

From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Date: Thu Feb 01 2018 - 15:51:41 EST


Em Thu, Feb 01, 2018 at 10:12:59AM -0500, William Cohen escreveu:
> On 02/01/2018 09:43 AM, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> > Em Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 10:28:13PM -0500, William Cohen escreveu:
> >> Add JSON metrics for ARM Cortex-A53 Processor
> >
> > Hi Will, would it be possible to you include an URL for the document
> > that served as a reference to you to write these files? Did you use some
> > script?
>
> Hi Arnaldo,

> I can certainly add the reference to section "12.9 Events" of the ARM
> Cortex -A53 MPCore Processor Revision: r0p4 Technical Reference Manual
> to the patch. That would be useful for people to know where to look
> for additional information about the events.

I'll take these clarifications and add it to your patch, that I am
applying now, please let me know if you have anything else to add and
I'll ammend it if I get it before I send it upstream.

> Unlike the Intel processors there isn't a script that automatically
> generated these files. The patch was manually generated from the
> documentation and the previous oprofile ARM Cortex ac53 event file
> patch I made.

Thanks a lot for this extra information,

- Arnaldo