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@@ -20,7 +20,6 @@ interrupt, and the PMU driver shall register perf PMU drivers like L3C,
HHA and DDRC etc. The available events and configuration options shall
be described in the sysfs, see:
-/sys/devices/hisi_sccl{X}_<l3c{Y}/hha{Y}/ddrc{Y}>/, or
/sys/bus/event_source/devices/hisi_sccl{X}_<l3c{Y}/hha{Y}/ddrc{Y}>.
The "perf list" command shall list the available events from sysfs.
@@ -36,7 +35,10 @@ e.g. hisi_sccl1_hha0/rx_operations is RX_OPERATIONS event of HHA index #0 in
SCCL ID #1.
The driver also provides a "cpumask" sysfs attribute, which shows the CPU core
-ID used to count the uncore PMU event.
+ID used to count the uncore PMU event. An "associated_cpus" sysfs attribute is
+also provided to show the CPUs associated with this PMU. The "cpumask" indicates
+the CPUs to open the events, usually as a hint for userspaces tools like perf.
+It only contains one associated CPU from the "associated_cpus".
Example usage of perf::