Re: [RFC PATCH v2] perf Documentation: Describe the PMU naming convention

[James Clark]

On 06/06/2024 05:49, Ian Rogers wrote:
> It is an existing convention to use suffixes with PMU names. Try to
> capture that convention so that future PMU devices may adhere to it.
> 
> The name of the file and date within the file try to follow existing
> conventions, particularly sysfs-bus-event_source-devices-events.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  .../testing/sysfs-bus-event_source-devices    | 24 +++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 24 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-event_source-devices
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-event_source-devices b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-event_source-devices
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000000..79b268319df1
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-event_source-devices
> @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
> +What: /sys/bus/event_source/devices/<pmu>
> +Date: 2014/02/24
> +Contact:	Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> +Description:	Performance Monitoring Unit (<pmu>)
> +
> +		Each <pmu> directory, for a PMU device, is a name
> +		optionally followed by an underscore and then either a
> +		decimal or hexadecimal number. For example, cpu is a
> +		PMU name without a suffix as is intel_bts,
> +		uncore_imc_0 is a PMU name with a 0 numeric suffix,
> +		ddr_pmu_87e1b0000000 is a PMU name with a hex
> +		suffix. The hex suffix must be more than two
> +		characters long to avoid ambiguity with PMUs like the
> +		S390 cpum_cf.
> +
> +		Tools can treat PMUs with the same name that differ by
> +		suffix as instances of the same PMU for the sake of,
> +		for example, opening an event. For example, the PMUs
> +		uncore_imc_free_running_0 and
> +		uncore_imc_free_running_1 have an event data_read;
> +		opening the data_read event on a PMU specified as
> +		uncore_imc_free_running should be treated as opening
> +		the data_read event on PMU uncore_imc_free_running_0
> +		and PMU uncore_imc_free_running_1.

Reviewed-by: James Clark <james.clark@xxxxxxx>