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| author | Sandipan Das <sandipan.das@amd.com> | 2021-11-23 14:16:13 +0530 |
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| committer | Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> | 2021-12-07 22:18:24 -0300 |
| commit | 7a2e14962cd43400c353cdc05550f580a284dcb9 (patch) | |
| tree | b8b0abf3940ad4edcbedc2a45bef556a4fc85c18 /tools/perf/Documentation | |
| parent | 4edb117e6472ca0c0730887dba8b30cba0a3705e (diff) | |
| download | linux-7a2e14962cd43400c353cdc05550f580a284dcb9.tar.bz2 | |
perf docs: Update link to AMD documentation
This updates the link to documentation on AMD processors. The new link
points to a page where users can find the Processor Programming
Reference (PPR) documents for the family and model codes corresponding
to processors they are using.
Signed-off-by: Sandipan Das <sandipan.das@amd.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Ananth Narayan <ananth.narayan@amd.com>
Cc: Kajol Jain <kjain@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Kim Phillips <kim.phillips@amd.com>
Cc: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@amd.com>
Cc: Robert Richter <rrichter@amd.com>
Cc: Santosh Shukla <santosh.shukla@amd.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211123084613.243792-2-sandipan.das@amd.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/perf/Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | tools/perf/Documentation/perf-list.txt | 14 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-list.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-list.txt index a922a95289a9..57384a97c04f 100644 --- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-list.txt +++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-list.txt @@ -81,7 +81,11 @@ On AMD systems it is implemented using IBS (up to precise-level 2). The precise modifier works with event types 0x76 (cpu-cycles, CPU clocks not halted) and 0xC1 (micro-ops retired). Both events map to IBS execution sampling (IBS op) with the IBS Op Counter Control bit -(IbsOpCntCtl) set respectively (see AMD64 Architecture Programmer’s +(IbsOpCntCtl) set respectively (see the +Core Complex (CCX) -> Processor x86 Core -> Instruction Based Sampling (IBS) +section of the [AMD Processor Programming Reference (PPR)] relevant to the +family, model and stepping of the processor being used). + Manual Volume 2: System Programming, 13.3 Instruction-Based Sampling). Examples to use IBS: @@ -96,8 +100,10 @@ it can be encoded in a per processor specific way. For instance on x86 CPUs, N is a hexadecimal value that represents the raw register encoding with the layout of IA32_PERFEVTSELx MSRs (see [Intel® 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer's Manual Volume 3B: System Programming Guide] Figure 30-1 Layout -of IA32_PERFEVTSELx MSRs) or AMD's PerfEvtSeln (see [AMD64 Architecture Programmer’s Manual Volume 2: System Programming], Page 344, -Figure 13-7 Performance Event-Select Register (PerfEvtSeln)). +of IA32_PERFEVTSELx MSRs) or AMD's PERF_CTL MSRs (see the +Core Complex (CCX) -> Processor x86 Core -> MSR Registers section of the +[AMD Processor Programming Reference (PPR)] relevant to the family, model +and stepping of the processor being used). Note: Only the following bit fields can be set in x86 counter registers: event, umask, edge, inv, cmask. Esp. guest/host only and @@ -348,4 +354,4 @@ SEE ALSO linkperf:perf-stat[1], linkperf:perf-top[1], linkperf:perf-record[1], http://www.intel.com/sdm/[Intel® 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer's Manual Volume 3B: System Programming Guide], -http://support.amd.com/us/Processor_TechDocs/24593_APM_v2.pdf[AMD64 Architecture Programmer’s Manual Volume 2: System Programming] +https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=206537[AMD Processor Programming Reference (PPR)] |