perf header: Additional note on AMD IBS for max_precise pmu cap
authorArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Tue, 7 Nov 2023 08:33:31 +0000 (14:03 +0530)
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Fri, 10 Nov 2023 11:31:13 +0000 (08:31 -0300)
commitdd678532f913c1a742f1a2add6adacfb7ae2b166
tree0ce37cbb002e26da31b62c850384d098402914cb
parenta399ee6773d6a0203f9bd764f8bd9d978878cef1
perf header: Additional note on AMD IBS for max_precise pmu cap

x86 core PMU exposes supported maximum precision level via max_precise
PMU capability. Although, AMD core PMU does not support precise mode,
certain core PMU events with precise_ip > 0 are allowed and forwarded to
IBS OP PMU.

Display a note about this in the 'perf report' header output and
document the details in the perf-list man page.

Signed-off-by: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@amd.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ananth Narayan <ananth.narayan@amd.com>
Cc: Changbin Du <changbin.du@huawei.com>
Cc: Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@kernel.org>
Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: K Prateek Nayak <kprateek.nayak@amd.com>
Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Kim Phillips <kim.phillips@amd.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Ming Wang <wangming01@loongson.cn>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ross Zwisler <zwisler@chromium.org>
Cc: Sandipan Das <sandipan.das@amd.com>
Cc: Santosh Shukla <santosh.shukla@amd.com>
Cc: Yang Jihong <yangjihong1@huawei.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231107083331.901-2-ravi.bangoria@amd.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
tools/perf/Documentation/perf-list.txt
tools/perf/util/env.c
tools/perf/util/env.h
tools/perf/util/header.c