perf vendor events: Add support for pmu events vendor subdirectory

For some architectures (like arm), it is required to support a vendor
subdirectory and not locate all the JSONs for a specific vendor in the
same folder.

This is because all the events for the same vendor will be placed in the
same pmu events table, which may cause conflict.  This conflict would be
in the instance that a vendor's custom implemented events do have the
same meaning on different platforms, so events in the pmu table would
conflict. In addition, per list command may show events which are not
even supported for a given platform.

This patch adds support for a arch/vendor/platform directory hierarchy,
while maintaining backwards-compatibility for existing arch/platform
structure. In this, each platform would always have its own pmu events
table.

In generated file pmu_events.c, each platform table name is in the
format pme{_vendor}_platform, like this:

struct pmu_events_map pmu_events_map[] = {
{
	.cpuid = "0x00000000420f5160",
	.version = "v1",
	.type = "core",
	.table = pme_cavium_thunderx2
},
{
	.cpuid = 0,
	.version = 0,
	.type = 0,
	.table = 0,
},
};

Signed-off-by: John Garry <john.garry@huawei.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ganapatrao Kulkarni <ganapatrao.kulkarni@cavium.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Shaokun Zhang <zhangshaokun@hisilicon.com>
Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: William Cohen <wcohen@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linuxarm@huawei.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1520506716-197429-5-git-send-email-john.garry@huawei.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1521047452-28565-1-git-send-email-john.garry@huawei.com
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Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/tools/perf/pmu-events/README b/tools/perf/pmu-events/README
index 2407abc1d441..655286ff8767 100644
--- a/tools/perf/pmu-events/README
+++ b/tools/perf/pmu-events/README
@@ -28,6 +28,10 @@ sub directory. Thus for the Silvermont X86 CPU:
 	Cache.json 	Memory.json 	Virtual-Memory.json
 	Frontend.json 	Pipeline.json
 
+The JSONs folder for a CPU model/family may be placed in the root arch
+folder, or may be placed in a vendor sub-folder under the arch folder
+for instances where the arch and vendor are not the same.
+
 Using the JSON files and the mapfile, 'jevents' generates the C source file,
 'pmu-events.c', which encodes the two sets of tables: