[PATCH v4 2/6] perf Document: Sysfs event names must be lower or upper case

Ian Rogers posted 6 patches 1 year, 7 months ago
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[PATCH v4 2/6] perf Document: Sysfs event names must be lower or upper case
Posted by Ian Rogers 1 year, 7 months ago
To avoid directory scans in perf it is going to be assumed that sysfs
event names are either lower or upper case.

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
---
 .../ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-event_source-devices-events       | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-event_source-devices-events b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-event_source-devices-events
index 77de58d03822..e7efeab2ee83 100644
--- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-event_source-devices-events
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-event_source-devices-events
@@ -37,6 +37,12 @@ Description:	Per-pmu performance monitoring events specific to the running syste
 		performance monitoring event supported by the <pmu>. The name
 		of the file is the name of the event.
 
+		As performance monitoring event names are case
+		insensitive in the perf tool, the perf tool only looks
+		for lower or upper case event names in sysfs to avoid
+		scanning the directory. It is therefore required the
+		name of the event here is either lower or upper case.
+
 		File contents:
 
 			<term>[=<value>][,<term>[=<value>]]...
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