[PATCH V3 1/6] perf/core: Adding PMU driver specific configuration

[Mathieu Poirier]

On 4 August 2016 at 10:58, Peter Zijlstra <peterz at infradead.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 03:42:18PM -0600, Mathieu Poirier wrote:
>> This patch somewhat mimics the work done on address filters to
>> add the infrastructure needed to pass PMU specific HW
>> configuration to the driver before a session starts.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier at linaro.org>
>
>> diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h b/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h
>> index c66a485a24ac..90fbc5fd3925 100644
>> --- a/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h
>> +++ b/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h
>> @@ -407,6 +407,7 @@ struct perf_event_attr {
>>  #define PERF_EVENT_IOC_ID            _IOR('$', 7, __u64 *)
>>  #define PERF_EVENT_IOC_SET_BPF               _IOW('$', 8, __u32)
>>  #define PERF_EVENT_IOC_PAUSE_OUTPUT  _IOW('$', 9, __u32)
>> +#define PERF_EVENT_IOC_SET_DRV_CONFIGS       _IOW('$', 10, char *)
>
> Please also do a manpages patch.

Patch 3/6 in this set documents the new option
(tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.tx).  Is this what you were
looking for?  If not please expand on the information you want to see
added add and where.

Thanks,
Mathieu