Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 26 Feb 2013 12:03:43 -0800 | From | Sukadev Bhattiprolu <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 5/6][v4]: perf: Create a sysfs entry for Power event format |
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Michael Ellerman [michael@ellerman.id.au] wrote: | On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 10:26:13PM -0800, Sukadev Bhattiprolu wrote: | > | > [PATCH 5/6][v4]: perf: Create a sysfs entry for Power event format | > | > Create a sysfs entry, '/sys/bus/event_source/devices/cpu/format/event' | > which describes the format of a POWER cpu. | | Did this patch go upstream? I don't see it.
Hmm, patches 1..4,6 are in linux-tip and Arnaldo's trees but patch 5 is in neither.
| | If not, please don't merge it. | | > The format of the event is the same for all POWER cpus at least in | > (Power6, Power7), so bulk of this change is common in the code common | > to POWER cpus. | | No. The event format is different on most POWER cpus, in particular it | is different on Power6 and Power7, and will be different again on | Power8.
Sigh. The port of this patchset to Power6 has not started yet.
But this patchset does work on Power7 correct ?
If so, and we figure out what happened to patch 5, can we add a patch to to move the format code to power7-pmu.c ?
Sukadev
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