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authorIgor Opaniuk <igor.opaniuk@toradex.com>2020-11-13 14:11:10 +0200
committerIgor Opaniuk <igor.opaniuk@toradex.com>2020-11-13 14:17:32 +0200
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parent4d47b797d6bb1db34ddf702f2cf78104be135a8f (diff)
parent70d1232fdbe28e4c765c4cfc3cc5c7580959d5e0 (diff)
Merge commit '70d1232fdbe28e4c765c4cfc3cc5c7580959d5e0' into toradex_5.4-2.1.x-imx
Update 5.4-2.1.x-imx to v5.4.74 from [1]. [1] https://github.com/Freescale/linux-fslc
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@@ -33,6 +33,10 @@ OPTIONS
- a raw PMU event (eventsel+umask) in the form of rNNN where NNN is a
hexadecimal event descriptor.
+ - a symbolic or raw PMU event followed by an optional colon
+ and a list of event modifiers, e.g., cpu-cycles:p. See the
+ linkperf:perf-list[1] man page for details on event modifiers.
+
- a symbolically formed PMU event like 'pmu/param1=0x3,param2/' where
'param1', 'param2', etc are defined as formats for the PMU in
/sys/bus/event_source/devices/<pmu>/format/*.