From: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursu...@intel.com>
Explain behaviour of the new control knob along side the existing perf
event documentation.
Signed-off-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursu...@intel.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mi...@redhat.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <h...@zytor.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <a...@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shish...@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jo...@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhy...@kernel.org>
Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan <ma...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <a...@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Alexey Budankov <alexey.budan...@linux.intel.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: x...@kernel.org
---
.../testing/sysfs-bus-event_source-devices-events | 14 ++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-event_source-devices-events
b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-event_source-devices-events
index 505f080d20a1..b3096ae9be6f 100644
--- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-event_source-devices-events
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-event_source-devices-events
@@ -92,3 +92,17 @@ Description: Perf event scaling factors
This is provided to avoid performing floating point arithmetic
in the kernel.
+
+What: /sys/bus/event_source/devices/<pmu>/perf_event_paranoid
+Date: 2018/06/26
+Contact: Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
+Description: Per PMU access control file
+
+ This is the per PMU version of the perf_event_paranoid sysctl
+ which allows controlling the access control level for each
+ individual PMU.
+
+ Writes to the sysctl will propagate to all PMU providers.
+
+ For explanation of supported values please consult the sysctl
+ documentation.
--
2.17.1
