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Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2024 13:02:21 -0700
From: Ian Rogers <irogers@...gle.com>
To: Kan Liang <kan.liang@...ux.intel.com>, Thomas Richter <tmricht@...ux.ibm.com>, 
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, 
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>, Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>, 
	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>, 
	Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com>, Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org>, 
	Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>, 
	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>, Jing Zhang <renyu.zj@...ux.alibaba.com>, 
	James Clark <james.clark@....com>, Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@....com>, 
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-perf-users@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@...gle.com>
Subject: [PATCH v3 2/6] perf Document: Sysfs event names must be lower or
 upper case

To avoid directory scans in perf it is going to be assumed that sysfs
event names are either lower or upper case.

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@...gle.com>
---
 .../ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-event_source-devices-events       | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-event_source-devices-events b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-event_source-devices-events
index 77de58d03822..e7efeab2ee83 100644
--- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-event_source-devices-events
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-event_source-devices-events
@@ -37,6 +37,12 @@ Description:	Per-pmu performance monitoring events specific to the running syste
 		performance monitoring event supported by the <pmu>. The name
 		of the file is the name of the event.
 
+		As performance monitoring event names are case
+		insensitive in the perf tool, the perf tool only looks
+		for lower or upper case event names in sysfs to avoid
+		scanning the directory. It is therefore required the
+		name of the event here is either lower or upper case.
+
 		File contents:
 
 			<term>[=<value>][,<term>[=<value>]]...
-- 
2.44.0.769.g3c40516874-goog


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