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The memory event can deliver two benefits: - The first benefit is the memory event can give out global view for memory accessing, rather than organizing events with scatter mode (e.g. uses separate event for L1 cache, last level cache, etc) which which can only display a event for single memory type, memory events include all memory accessing so it can display the data accessing cross memory levels in the same view; - The second benefit is the sample generation might introduce a big overhead and need to wait for long time for Perf reporting, we can specify itrace option '--itrace=M' to filter out other events and only output memory events, this can significantly reduce the overhead caused by generating samples. This patch is to enable memory event for Arm SPE. Signed-off-by: Leo Yan <leo.yan@linaro.org> Reviewed-by: James Clark <james.clark@arm.com> Tested-by: James Clark <james.clark@arm.com> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Al Grant <al.grant@arm.com> Cc: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: John Garry <john.garry@huawei.com> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Wei Li <liwei391@huawei.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: James Clark <james.clark@arm.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210211133856.2137-5-james.clark@arm.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.