arm64: docs: Document perf event attributes
authorAndrew Murray <andrew.murray@arm.com>
Tue, 9 Apr 2019 19:22:17 +0000 (20:22 +0100)
committerMarc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
Wed, 24 Apr 2019 14:46:26 +0000 (15:46 +0100)
commita9bf3130ebfe0378df449a1b13997c47a58e661a
tree4fb87b3993757a3c4200e3f6aea6a67d578970bf
parent39e3406a090a54e700a7c0820c8258af1196b0c2
arm64: docs: Document perf event attributes

The interaction between the exclude_{host,guest} flags,
exclude_{user,kernel,hv} flags and presence of VHE can result in
different exception levels being filtered by the ARMv8 PMU. As this
can be confusing let's document how they work on arm64.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Murray <andrew.murray@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
Documentation/arm64/perf.txt [new file with mode: 0644]