perf: Document the ABI of perf sysfs entries

This patchset addes two new sets of files to sysfs for POWER architecture.

	- perf event config format in /sys/devices/cpu/format/event
	- generic and POWER-specific perf events in /sys/devices/cpu/events/

The format of the first file is already documented in:

	sysfs-bus-event_source-devices-format

Document the format of the second set of files '/sys/devices/cpu/events/*'
which would also become part of the ABI.

Changelog[v4]:
	[Jiri Olsa]: Mention that multiple event= like terms can be specified
	in the 'events' file.
	[Jiri Olsa]: Remove the documentation for the 'config format' file
	as it is already documented in 'Documentation/ABI/testing/'.
	[Jiri Olsa]: Move ABI documentation from 'stable/' to 'testing/'

Changelog[v3]:
	[Greg KH] Include ABI documentation.

Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@au1.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130123062645.GG13720@us.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-devices-cpu-events b/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-devices-cpu-events
deleted file mode 100644 (file)
index e69de29..0000000

diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-event_source-devices-events b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-event_source-devices-events
new file mode 100644 (file)
index 0000000..0adeb52
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-event_source-devices-events
@@ -0,0 +1,62 @@
+What:          /sys/devices/cpu/events/
+               /sys/devices/cpu/events/branch-misses
+               /sys/devices/cpu/events/cache-references
+               /sys/devices/cpu/events/cache-misses
+               /sys/devices/cpu/events/stalled-cycles-frontend
+               /sys/devices/cpu/events/branch-instructions
+               /sys/devices/cpu/events/stalled-cycles-backend
+               /sys/devices/cpu/events/instructions
+               /sys/devices/cpu/events/cpu-cycles
+
+Date:          2013/01/08
+
+Contact:       Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
+
+Description:   Generic performance monitoring events
+
+               A collection of performance monitoring events that may be
+               supported by many/most CPUs. These events can be monitored
+               using the 'perf(1)' tool.
+
+               The contents of each file would look like:
+
+                       event=0xNNNN
+
+               where 'N' is a hex digit and the number '0xNNNN' shows the
+               "raw code" for the perf event identified by the file's
+               "basename".
+
+
+What:          /sys/devices/cpu/events/PM_LD_MISS_L1
+               /sys/devices/cpu/events/PM_LD_REF_L1
+               /sys/devices/cpu/events/PM_CYC
+               /sys/devices/cpu/events/PM_BRU_FIN
+               /sys/devices/cpu/events/PM_GCT_NOSLOT_CYC
+               /sys/devices/cpu/events/PM_BRU_MPRED
+               /sys/devices/cpu/events/PM_INST_CMPL
+               /sys/devices/cpu/events/PM_CMPLU_STALL
+
+Date:          2013/01/08
+
+Contact:       Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
+               Linux Powerpc mailing list <linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org>
+
+Description:   POWER-systems specific performance monitoring events
+
+               A collection of performance monitoring events that may be
+               supported by the POWER CPU. These events can be monitored
+               using the 'perf(1)' tool.
+
+               These events may not be supported by other CPUs.
+
+               The contents of each file would look like:
+
+                       event=0xNNNN
+
+               where 'N' is a hex digit and the number '0xNNNN' shows the
+               "raw code" for the perf event identified by the file's
+               "basename".
+
+               Further, multiple terms like 'event=0xNNNN' can be specified
+               and separated with comma. All available terms are defined in
+               the /sys/bus/event_source/devices/<dev>/format file.