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Title:
  perf tool: Display event codes for Generic HW (PMU) events

Status in linux package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  == Comment: #0 - Sukadev Bhattiprolu <suka@xxxxxxxxxx> - 2016-01-26 13:49:00 ==
  +++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #136063 +++

  +++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #136062 +++

  Perf supports a small set of so-called "generic" PMU events like "cycles", 
  "instructions" etc. But most CPUs support a wide variety of events, several
  closely related to run cycles or instructions or branches etc. For performance
  analysis it would be useful to know precisely which PMU event is being
  monitored by a generic event. This feature is to design/implement a mechanism
  to display the precise raw event codes for the generic events in a suitable
  file in sysfs.

  Following is a posting of the small patch set to the community

     https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/1/11/982

  == Comment: #3 - Diane Brent <drbrent@xxxxxxxxxx> - 2016-03-01 13:59:30 ==
  Any new news from maintainer? When is deemed too late to try to get this in 16.04? Feature freeze is passed. Kernel freeze is 4/07. Will this target 16.04.1/16.10?

  == Comment: #5 - Sukadev Bhattiprolu <suka@xxxxxxxxxx> - 2016-03-23 20:44:20 ==
  The patches were merged into mainline recently:

  commit d4969e2
  Author: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  Date:   Mon Jan 11 14:55:25 2016 -0800

      powerpc/perf: Remove PME_ prefix for power7 events

  
  commit e0728b5
  Author: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  Date:   Mon Jan 11 14:55:26 2016 -0800

      powerpc/perf: Export Power8 generic and cache events to sysfs

  http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/arch/powerpc/perf/power7-pmu.c?id=d4969e2459c6e852a6862256cf8e869aaa3e8adf
  http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/arch/powerpc/perf/power8-pmu.c?id=e0728b50d480da6be228dd160a43b37e4c0b1636

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