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@@ -37,6 +37,14 @@ Description: Per-pmu performance monitoring events specific to the running syste
performance monitoring event supported by the <pmu>. The name
of the file is the name of the event.
+ As performance monitoring event names are case insensitive
+ in the perf tool, the perf tool only looks for all lower
+ case or all upper case event names in sysfs to avoid
+ scanning the directory. It is therefore required the
+ name of the event here is either completely lower or upper
+ case, with no mixed-case characters. Numbers, '.', '_', and
+ '-' are also allowed.
+
File contents:
<term>[=<value>][,<term>[=<value>]]...