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perf parse-events: Add terms for legacy hardware and cache config values
authorIan Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Sun, 5 Oct 2025 18:24:13 +0000 (11:24 -0700)
committerNamhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Wed, 15 Oct 2025 14:59:10 +0000 (23:59 +0900)
commitabcff00014b8ddb3cab87079f7c91ee9fa973eb5
tree566b16298034fbc8d561415948f7ba23a2c920a7
parent70424bb5ff5772635e86c6bcfaa9622bc222e1e6
perf parse-events: Add terms for legacy hardware and cache config values

Add the PMU terms legacy-hardware-config and
legacy-cache-config. These terms are similar to the config term in
that their values are assigned to the perf_event_attr config
value. They differ in that the PMU type is switched to be either
PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE or PERF_TYPE_HW_CACHE, and the PMU type is moved
into the extended type information of the config value. This will
allow later patches to add legacy events to json.

An example use of the terms is in the following:
```
$ perf stat -vv -e 'cpu/legacy-hardware-config=1/,cpu/legacy-cache-config=0x10001/' true
Using CPUID GenuineIntel-6-8D-1
Attempt to add: cpu/legacy-hardware-config=0x1/
..after resolving event: cpu/legacy-hardware-config=0x1/
Attempt to add: cpu/legacy-cache-config=0x10001/
..after resolving event: cpu/legacy-cache-config=0x10001/
Control descriptor is not initialized
------------------------------------------------------------
perf_event_attr:
  type                             0 (PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE)
  size                             136
  config                           0x1 (PERF_COUNT_HW_INSTRUCTIONS)
  sample_type                      IDENTIFIER
  read_format                      TOTAL_TIME_ENABLED|TOTAL_TIME_RUNNING
  disabled                         1
  inherit                          1
  enable_on_exec                   1
------------------------------------------------------------
sys_perf_event_open: pid 994937  cpu -1  group_fd -1  flags 0x8 = 3
------------------------------------------------------------
perf_event_attr:
  type                             3 (PERF_TYPE_HW_CACHE)
  size                             136
  config                           0x10001 (PERF_COUNT_HW_CACHE_RESULT_MISS | PERF_COUNT_HW_CACHE_OP_READ | PERF_COUNT_HW_CACHE_L1I)
  sample_type                      IDENTIFIER
  read_format                      TOTAL_TIME_ENABLED|TOTAL_TIME_RUNNING
  disabled                         1
  inherit                          1
  enable_on_exec                   1
------------------------------------------------------------
sys_perf_event_open: pid 994937  cpu -1  group_fd -1  flags 0x8 = 4
cpu/legacy-hardware-config=1/: -1: 1364046 414756 414756
cpu/legacy-cache-config=0x10001/: -1: 57453 414756 414756
cpu/legacy-hardware-config=1/: 1364046 414756 414756
cpu/legacy-cache-config=0x10001/: 57453 414756 414756

 Performance counter stats for 'true':

         1,364,046      cpu/legacy-hardware-config=1/
            57,453      cpu/legacy-cache-config=0x10001/

       0.001988593 seconds time elapsed

       0.002194000 seconds user
       0.000000000 seconds sys
```

Tested-by: Thomas Richter <tmricht@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Tested-by: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
tools/perf/util/parse-events.c
tools/perf/util/parse-events.h
tools/perf/util/parse-events.l
tools/perf/util/pmu.c