From 1cf4a0632c24ea61162ed819bde358bc94c55510 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 7 May 2010 14:07:05 -0300
Subject: perf list: Improve the raw hw event descriptor documentation
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It was x86 specific and imcomplete at that, improve the situation by
making it clear where the example provided applies and by adding the
URLs for the Intel and AMD manuals where this is discussed in depth.

Acked-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Reported-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
---
 tools/perf/util/parse-events.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'tools/perf/util/parse-events.c')

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c b/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c
index bc8b7e614207..7b24b5dee8b3 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c
@@ -936,7 +936,8 @@ void print_events(void)
 
 	printf("\n");
 	printf("  %-42s [%s]\n",
-		"rNNN (NNN=<UMASK VALUE><EVENT NUM>)", event_type_descriptors[PERF_TYPE_RAW]);
+		"rNNN (see 'perf list --help' on how to encode it)",
+	       event_type_descriptors[PERF_TYPE_RAW]);
 	printf("\n");
 
 	printf("  %-42s [%s]\n",
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