perf list: Support long jevents descriptions
authorSukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Thu, 15 Sep 2016 22:24:48 +0000 (15:24 -0700)
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Tue, 4 Oct 2016 00:35:47 +0000 (21:35 -0300)
commitc8d6828a6510c9363180ebf662b51d032e0eb85a
treeb2f63f0bb7f47ff99d82b7e7e162933ac1a86d9b
parent794ba54a8393456d503958d6217874e455b6a771
perf list: Support long jevents descriptions

Previously we were dropping the useful longer descriptions that some
events have in the event list completely. This patch makes them appear with
perf list.

Old perf list:

baclears:
  baclears.all
       [Counts the number of baclears]

vs new:

perf list -v:
...
baclears:
  baclears.all
       [The BACLEARS event counts the number of times the front end is
        resteered, mainly when the Branch Prediction Unit cannot provide
        a correct prediction and this is corrected by the Branch Address
        Calculator at the front end. The BACLEARS.ANY event counts the
        number of baclears for any type of branch]

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1473978296-20712-13-git-send-email-sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
tools/perf/Documentation/perf-list.txt
tools/perf/builtin-list.c
tools/perf/util/parse-events.c
tools/perf/util/parse-events.h
tools/perf/util/pmu.c
tools/perf/util/pmu.h