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PERFEVENT.CONF(5) File Formats Manual PERFEVENT.CONF(5)
perfevent.conf - the Performance Co-Pilot perfevent PMDA configura‐
tion file
$PCP_PMDAS_DIRS/perfevent/perfevent.conf
The perfevent.conf configuration file defines which hardware
performance counters are enabled by the perfevent PMDA.
The configuration file contains a list of events that should be
enabled for each PMU. The perfevent PMDA detects which PMUs present
and programs the configured events. If multiple PMUs are available,
the perfevent PMDA uses the order of the entries in the configuration
file to determine which PMU settings to use. The entries at the top
of the configuration file have higher precedence. Only one PMU
configuration setting is used. The configuration file may also
contain perf derived events. A derived event has a list of events
which must be listed as base events. The values for the counters in
the derived events are aggregated and displayed.
The file consists of one or more groups of PMUs and the events that
go with them.
The PMU identification string is enclosed in brackets and one or more
events are listed below, one per line.
["PMU identification string"]
EVENT_NAME [CPU OPTION]
...
For derived events, one or more groups of events can be specified
where, counters in one group can be specific to one architecture and
the counters in other group can be specific to some other
architecture. Else, only one group can be specified. EVENT_NAME_1,
EVENT_NAME_2 etc. belong to group 1 and EVENT_NAME_3, EVENT_NAME_4
belong to group 2 and so on. If any of the event in the first group
is not available, entire group will be discarded. And, the next group
will be checked. The first group with all the events available will
be activated and monitored. The derived perf event is enclosed in
brackets along with :derived as a suffix. Note that the EVENT_NAME
listed under derived event must be present as a base event in the
configuration file. And, all the events under a particular derived
perf event group must have the same CPU_OPTION. || acts as a
separator for different groups inside a single derived event. The
syntax is :
[event:derived]
EVENT_NAME_1 [CPU_OPTION] [scale]
EVENT_NAME_2 [CPU_OPTION] [scale]
...
||
EVENT_NAME_3 [CPU_OPTION] [scale]
EVENT_NAME_4 [CPU_OPTION] [scale]
...
The available event cpu options are as follows:
cpu to add the counter to all cpus in the system
cpu_rr to add to one of the cpus in a round-robin allocation
strategy
node to add the counter to the first cpu in each numa node
node_rr
to add the counter to the cpus in each numa node in a
round-robin allocation strategy
[N] where N is the numerical digit of the CPU index
if the CPU option is absent then the event is programmed on
all cpus.
scale is applicable for the counters in derived events. If
scale is given, the counters will be scaled to their
respective values. The options are as follows :
a float value
Can be a simple float value, or a value in scientific
notation.
perf_scale
The scale will be taken from the kernel sysfs scale
file entry for that event. Its generally specified in
/sys/bus/event_source/device/events/<event_name>.scale
If no scale is given, the default scale will be taken as 1.0.
Blank lines are ignored. Lines that begin with the # sign are
ignored.
Multiple, comma separated, PMUs may be specified in the PMU
definition.
pmdaperfevent(1).
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