This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled perf/x86/intel/pt: Add format strings for PTWRITE and power event tracing to the 4.10-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: perf-x86-intel-pt-add-format-strings-for-ptwrite-and-power-event-tracing.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.10 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 5443624bedd0d23e112d5f2a919435182875bce9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2017 17:16:43 +0200 Subject: perf/x86/intel/pt: Add format strings for PTWRITE and power event tracing From: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit 5443624bedd0d23e112d5f2a919435182875bce9 upstream. Commit: 8ee83b2ab3 ("perf/x86/intel/pt: Add support for PTWRITE and power event tracing") forgot to add format strings to the PT driver. So one could enable these features by setting corresponding bits in the event config, but not by their mnemonic names. This patch adds the format strings. Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: vince@xxxxxxxxxx Fixes: 8ee83b2ab3 ("perf/x86/intel/pt: Add support for PTWRITE...") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170127151644.8585-2-alexander.shishkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/x86/events/intel/pt.c | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) --- a/arch/x86/events/intel/pt.c +++ b/arch/x86/events/intel/pt.c @@ -99,18 +99,24 @@ static struct attribute_group pt_cap_gro }; PMU_FORMAT_ATTR(cyc, "config:1" ); +PMU_FORMAT_ATTR(pwr_evt, "config:4" ); +PMU_FORMAT_ATTR(fup_on_ptw, "config:5" ); PMU_FORMAT_ATTR(mtc, "config:9" ); PMU_FORMAT_ATTR(tsc, "config:10" ); PMU_FORMAT_ATTR(noretcomp, "config:11" ); +PMU_FORMAT_ATTR(ptw, "config:12" ); PMU_FORMAT_ATTR(mtc_period, "config:14-17" ); PMU_FORMAT_ATTR(cyc_thresh, "config:19-22" ); PMU_FORMAT_ATTR(psb_period, "config:24-27" ); static struct attribute *pt_formats_attr[] = { &format_attr_cyc.attr, + &format_attr_pwr_evt.attr, + &format_attr_fup_on_ptw.attr, &format_attr_mtc.attr, &format_attr_tsc.attr, &format_attr_noretcomp.attr, + &format_attr_ptw.attr, &format_attr_mtc_period.attr, &format_attr_cyc_thresh.attr, &format_attr_psb_period.attr, Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from alexander.shishkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.10/perf-x86-intel-pt-add-format-strings-for-ptwrite-and-power-event-tracing.patch