Add description of .config in a sake of RAW events. At least this should bring some light to those who will be reading this code. Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov CC: Lin Ming CC: Stephane Eranian CC: Peter Zijlstra --- arch/x86/include/asm/perf_event_p4.h | 62 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 54 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) Index: linux-2.6.git/arch/x86/include/asm/perf_event_p4.h ===================================================================== --- linux-2.6.git.orig/arch/x86/include/asm/perf_event_p4.h +++ linux-2.6.git/arch/x86/include/asm/perf_event_p4.h @@ -744,14 +744,6 @@ enum P4_ESCR_EMASKS { }; /* - * P4 PEBS specifics (Replay Event only) - * - * Format (bits): - * 0-6: metric from P4_PEBS_METRIC enum - * 7 : reserved - * 8 : reserved - * 9-11 : reserved - * * Note we have UOP and PEBS bits reserved for now * just in case if we will need them once */ @@ -788,5 +780,59 @@ enum P4_PEBS_METRIC { P4_PEBS_METRIC__max }; +/* + * Notes on internal configuration of ESCR+CCCR tuples + * + * Since P4 has quite the different architecture of + * performance registers in compare with "architectural" + * once and we have on 64 bits to keep configuration + * of performance event, the following trick is used. + * + * 1) Since both ESCR and CCCR registers have only low + * 32 bits valuable, we pack them into a single 64 bit + * configuration. Low 32 bits of such config correspond + * to low 32 bits of CCCR register and high 32 bits + * correspond to low 32 bits of ESCR register. + * + * 2) The meaning of every bit of such config field can + * be found in Intel SDM but it should be noted that + * we "borrow" some reserved bits for own usage and + * clean them or set to a proper value when we do + * a real write to hardware registers. + * + * 3) The format of bits of config is the following + * and should be either 0 or set to some predefined + * values: + * + * Low 32 bits + * ----------- + * 0-6: P4_PEBS_METRIC enum + * 7-11: reserved + * 12: Active thread + * 13-15: reserved (ESCR select) + * 16-17: Compare + * 18: Complement + * 20-23: Threshold + * 24: Edge + * 25: reserved (FORCE_OVF) + * 26: reserved (OVF_PMI_T0) + * 27: reserved (OVF_PMI_T1) + * 28-29: reserved + * 30: reserved (Cascade) + * 31: reserved (OVF) + * + * High 32 bits + * ------------ + * 0: reserved (T1_USR) + * 1: reserved (T1_OS) + * 2: reserved (T0_USR) + * 3: reserved (T0_OS) + * 4: Tag Enable + * 5-8: Tag Value + * 9-24: Event Mask (may use P4_ESCR_EMASK_BIT helper) + * 25-30: enum P4_EVENTS + * 31: reserved (HT thread) + */ + #endif /* PERF_EVENT_P4_H */ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/