Re: [PATCH RFC 3/7] perf jevents: Add support for a system events PMU

[Jiri Olsa]

On Fri, Jan 24, 2020 at 10:35:01PM +0800, John Garry wrote:

SNIP

>  	- Set of 'PMU events tables' for all known CPUs in the architecture,
> @@ -83,11 +93,11 @@ NOTES:
>  	2. The 'pmu-events.h' has an extern declaration for the mapping table
>  	   and the generated 'pmu-events.c' defines this table.
>  
> -	3. _All_ known CPU tables for architecture are included in the perf
> -	   binary.
> +	3. _All_ known CPU and system tables for architecture are included in
> +	   the perf binary.
>  
> -At run time, perf determines the actual CPU it is running on, finds the
> -matching events table and builds aliases for those events. This allows
> +At run time, perf determines the actual CPU or system it is running on, finds
> +the matching events table and builds aliases for those events. This allows
>  users to specify events by their name:
>  
>  	$ perf stat -e pm_1plus_ppc_cmpl sleep 1
> @@ -150,3 +160,18 @@ where:
>  
>  	i.e the three CPU models use the JSON files (i.e PMU events) listed
>  	in the directory 'tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/x86/silvermont'.
> +
> +The mapfile_sys.csv format is slightly different, in that it contains a SYSID
> +instead of the CPUID:
> +
> +	Header line
> +	SYSID,Version,Dir/path/name,Type

can't we just add prefix to SYSID types? like:

	SYSID-HIP08,v1,hisilicon/hip08/sys,sys
	0x00000000480fd010,v1,hisilicon/hip08/cpu,core
	0x00000000500f0000,v1,ampere/emag,core

because the rest of the line is the same, right?

seems to me that having one mapfile type would be less confusing

jirka