diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt
index 379a2bed07c09da5698f0555f567512c33453146..1a24f4d64328c1e7551822c12c12fd9854c68284 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt
@@ -60,6 +60,18 @@ OPTIONS
Note: If user explicitly sets options which conflict with the params,
the value set by the params will be overridden.
+ Also not defined in .../<pmu>/format/* are PMU driver specific
+ configuration parameters. Any configuration parameter preceded by
+ the letter '@' is not interpreted in user space and sent down directly
+ to the PMU driver. For example:
+
+ perf record -e some_event/@cfg1,@cfg2=config/ ...
+
+ will see 'cfg1' and 'cfg2=config' pushed to the PMU driver associated
+ with the event for further processing. There is no restriction on
+ what the configuration parameters are, as long as their semantic is
+ understood and supported by the PMU driver.
+
- a hardware breakpoint event in the form of '\mem:addr[/len][:access]'
where addr is the address in memory you want to break in.
Access is the memory access type (read, write, execute) it can
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/evsel.h b/tools/perf/util/evsel.h
index 4d44129e050b0fef0ddc43ef2fd9c9c446349f0a..323806082c58592256913fa155def7cc2f28eaee 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/evsel.h
+++ b/tools/perf/util/evsel.h
@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@ enum {
PERF_EVSEL__CONFIG_TERM_INHERIT,
PERF_EVSEL__CONFIG_TERM_MAX_STACK,
PERF_EVSEL__CONFIG_TERM_OVERWRITE,
+ PERF_EVSEL__CONFIG_TERM_DRV_CFG,
PERF_EVSEL__CONFIG_TERM_MAX,
};
@@ -57,6 +58,7 @@ struct perf_evsel_config_term {
u64 freq;
bool time;
char *callgraph;
+ char *drv_cfg;
u64 stack_user;
int max_stack;
bool inherit;
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c b/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c
index 6c913c3914fb92163a6f8cabda62c0282b64c38e..2eb8b1ed4cc8dcc2db13d9bbb8a8da6bb1f1f84f 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c
@@ -904,6 +904,7 @@ static const char *config_term_names[__PARSE_EVENTS__TERM_TYPE_NR] = {
[PARSE_EVENTS__TERM_TYPE_MAX_STACK] = "max-stack",
[PARSE_EVENTS__TERM_TYPE_OVERWRITE] = "overwrite",
[PARSE_EVENTS__TERM_TYPE_NOOVERWRITE] = "no-overwrite",
+ [PARSE_EVENTS__TERM_TYPE_DRV_CFG] = "driver-config",
};
static bool config_term_shrinked;
@@ -1034,7 +1035,8 @@ static int config_term_pmu(struct perf_event_attr *attr,
struct parse_events_term *term,
struct parse_events_error *err)
{
- if (term->type_term == PARSE_EVENTS__TERM_TYPE_USER)
+ if (term->type_term == PARSE_EVENTS__TERM_TYPE_USER ||
+ term->type_term == PARSE_EVENTS__TERM_TYPE_DRV_CFG)
/*
* Always succeed for sysfs terms, as we dont know
* at this point what type they need to have.
@@ -1134,6 +1136,9 @@ do { \
case PARSE_EVENTS__TERM_TYPE_NOOVERWRITE:
ADD_CONFIG_TERM(OVERWRITE, overwrite, term->val.num ? 0 : 1);
break;
+ case PARSE_EVENTS__TERM_TYPE_DRV_CFG:
+ ADD_CONFIG_TERM(DRV_CFG, drv_cfg, term->val.str);
+ break;
default:
break;
}
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/parse-events.h b/tools/perf/util/parse-events.h
index d1edbf8cc66a7704cf774c3f3fc80fee8f1a31bd..8d09a976fca80cb4a481158e79c1751c7f9a4f26 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/parse-events.h
+++ b/tools/perf/util/parse-events.h
@@ -71,6 +71,7 @@ enum {
PARSE_EVENTS__TERM_TYPE_MAX_STACK,
PARSE_EVENTS__TERM_TYPE_NOOVERWRITE,
PARSE_EVENTS__TERM_TYPE_OVERWRITE,
+ PARSE_EVENTS__TERM_TYPE_DRV_CFG,
__PARSE_EVENTS__TERM_TYPE_NR,
};
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/parse-events.l b/tools/perf/util/parse-events.l
index 7a2519435da05273febd9af1974637cbc1c5d8c7..9f43fda2570f959833c85b89aa29b3612c6d6abb 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/parse-events.l
+++ b/tools/perf/util/parse-events.l
@@ -53,6 +53,26 @@ static int str(yyscan_t scanner, int token)
return token;
}
+/*
+ * This function is called when the parser gets two kind of input:
+ *
+ * @cfg1 or @cfg2=config
+ *
+ * The leading '@' is stripped off before 'cfg1' and 'cfg2=config' are given to
+ * bison. In the latter case it is necessary to keep the string intact so that
+ * the PMU kernel driver can determine what configurable is associated to
+ * 'config'.
+ */
+static int drv_str(yyscan_t scanner, int token)
+{
+ YYSTYPE *yylval = parse_events_get_lval(scanner);
+ char *text = parse_events_get_text(scanner);
+
+ /* Strip off the '@' */
+ yylval->str = strdup(text + 1);
+ return token;
+}
+
#define REWIND(__alloc) \
do { \
YYSTYPE *__yylval = parse_events_get_lval(yyscanner); \
@@ -124,6 +144,7 @@ num_hex 0x[a-fA-F0-9]+
num_raw_hex [a-fA-F0-9]+
name [a-zA-Z_*?][a-zA-Z0-9_*?.]*
name_minus [a-zA-Z_*?][a-zA-Z0-9\-_*?.:]*
+drv_cfg_term [a-zA-Z0-9_\.]+(=[a-zA-Z0-9_*?\.:]+)?
/* If you add a modifier you need to update check_modifier() */
modifier_event [ukhpPGHSDI]+
modifier_bp [rwx]{1,3}
@@ -209,6 +230,7 @@ no-overwrite { return term(yyscanner, PARSE_EVENTS__TERM_TYPE_NOOVERWRITE); }
{name_minus} { return str(yyscanner, PE_NAME); }
\[all\] { return PE_ARRAY_ALL; }
"[" { BEGIN(array); return '['; }
+@{drv_cfg_term} { return drv_str(yyscanner, PE_DRV_CFG_TERM); }
}
<mem>{
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/parse-events.y b/tools/perf/util/parse-events.y
index 5be4a5f216d6d23889e07e225810fec40df67c30..879115f93edcdc52171b42fc6e544662b579da1f 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/parse-events.y
+++ b/tools/perf/util/parse-events.y
@@ -49,6 +49,7 @@ static void inc_group_count(struct list_head *list,
%token PE_ERROR
%token PE_PMU_EVENT_PRE PE_PMU_EVENT_SUF PE_KERNEL_PMU_EVENT
%token PE_ARRAY_ALL PE_ARRAY_RANGE
+%token PE_DRV_CFG_TERM
%type <num> PE_VALUE
%type <num> PE_VALUE_SYM_HW
%type <num> PE_VALUE_SYM_SW
@@ -63,6 +64,7 @@ static void inc_group_count(struct list_head *list,
%type <str> PE_MODIFIER_BP
%type <str> PE_EVENT_NAME
%type <str> PE_PMU_EVENT_PRE PE_PMU_EVENT_SUF PE_KERNEL_PMU_EVENT
+%type <str> PE_DRV_CFG_TERM
%type <num> value_sym
%type <head> event_config
%type <head> opt_event_config
@@ -599,6 +601,15 @@ PE_NAME array '=' PE_VALUE
term->array = $2;
$$ = term;
}
+|
+PE_DRV_CFG_TERM
+{
+ struct parse_events_term *term;
+
+ ABORT_ON(parse_events_term__str(&term, PARSE_EVENTS__TERM_TYPE_DRV_CFG,
+ $1, $1, &@1, NULL));
+ $$ = term;
+}
array:
'[' array_terms ']'