From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752756AbdKLB4a (ORCPT ); Sat, 11 Nov 2017 20:56:30 -0500 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([65.50.211.133]:56894 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752443AbdKLB42 (ORCPT ); Sat, 11 Nov 2017 20:56:28 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH V1 3/3] x86, bm: Add documentation on Intel Branch Monitoring To: Megha Dey , x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Cc: tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@redhat.com, hpa@zytor.com, andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com, kstewart@linuxfoundation.org, yu-cheng.yu@intel.com, len.brown@intel.com, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, peterz@infradead.org, acme@kernel.org, alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com, jolsa@redhat.com, namhyung@kernel.org, vikas.shivappa@linux.intel.com, pombredanne@nexb.com, me@kylehuey.com, bp@suse.de, grzegorz.andrejczuk@intel.com, tony.luck@intel.com, corbet@lwn.net, ravi.v.shankar@intel.com, megha.dey@intel.com References: <1510435206-16110-1-git-send-email-megha.dey@linux.intel.com> <1510435206-16110-4-git-send-email-megha.dey@linux.intel.com> From: Randy Dunlap Message-ID: <093f19ac-9fac-8ee8-7671-7b4d1807a9b8@infradead.org> Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2017 17:56:14 -0800 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1510435206-16110-4-git-send-email-megha.dey@linux.intel.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 11/11/17 13:20, Megha Dey wrote: > This patch adds the Documentation/x86/intel_bm.txt file with some > information about Intel Branch monitoring. > +4. Window count select: /sys/devices/intel-bm/window_cnt_sel > + Possible values are: > + ‘00 = instructions retired > + ‘01 = branches retired > + ‘10 = returned instructions retired > + ‘11 = indirect branch instructions retired > + By default, it has a value of 0. Hi, Is the 'xx binary notation? If so, it would be nice to say so.. or whatever it is. thanks, -- ~Randy