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authorDmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>2015-03-23 09:18:27 -0700
committerDmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>2015-03-23 09:18:27 -0700
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parentInput: sun4i-ts - allow controlling filter and sensitivity via DT (diff)
parentLinux 4.0-rc5 (diff)
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Merge tag 'v4.0-rc5' into next
Merge with the latest upstream to synchronize Synaptics changes and bring in new infrastructure pieces. Conflicts: drivers/input/mouse/synaptics.c
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@@ -33,12 +33,27 @@ OPTIONS
- a raw PMU event (eventsel+umask) in the form of rNNN where NNN is a
hexadecimal event descriptor.
- - a hardware breakpoint event in the form of '\mem:addr[:access]'
+ - a symbolically formed PMU event like 'pmu/param1=0x3,param2/' where
+ 'param1', 'param2', etc are defined as formats for the PMU in
+ /sys/bus/event_sources/devices/<pmu>/format/*.
+
+ - a symbolically formed event like 'pmu/config=M,config1=N,config3=K/'
+
+ where M, N, K are numbers (in decimal, hex, octal format). Acceptable
+ values for each of 'config', 'config1' and 'config2' are defined by
+ corresponding entries in /sys/bus/event_sources/devices/<pmu>/format/*
+ param1 and param2 are defined as formats for the PMU in:
+ /sys/bus/event_sources/devices/<pmu>/format/*
+
+ - 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
- be passed as follows: '\mem:addr[:[r][w][x]]'.
+ be passed as follows: '\mem:addr[:[r][w][x]]'. len is the range,
+ number of bytes from specified addr, which the breakpoint will cover.
If you want to profile read-write accesses in 0x1000, just set
'mem:0x1000:rw'.
+ If you want to profile write accesses in [0x1000~1008), just set
+ 'mem:0x1000/8:w'.
--filter=<filter>::
Event filter.