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authorRavi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@linux.ibm.com>2019-01-29 14:24:12 +0100
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2019-02-04 15:32:14 +0100
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perf mem/c2c: Fix perf_mem_events to support powerpc
PowerPC hardware does not have a builtin latency filter (--ldlat) for the "mem-load" event and perf_mem_events by default includes "/ldlat=30/" which is causing a failure on PowerPC. Refactor the code to support "perf mem/c2c" on PowerPC. This patch depends on kernel side changes done my Madhavan: https://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2018-December/182596.html Signed-off-by: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@linux.ibm.com> Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Dick Fowles <fowles@inreach.com> Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Cc: Joe Mario <jmario@redhat.com> Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190129132412.771-1-ravi.bangoria@linux.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ RECORD OPTIONS
Be more verbose (show counter open errors, etc)
--ldlat <n>::
- Specify desired latency for loads event.
+ Specify desired latency for loads event. (x86 only)
In addition, for report all perf report options are valid, and for record
all perf record options.