------- Comment From gwal...@br.ibm.com 2017-11-15 16:44 EDT-------
[SRU Justification]
This feature provides the latest core and nest PMU events which it comes with 
the skiboot on Power P9 Arch.

Those patches are available on mainline kernel tree in
tags/powerpc-4.14-1~314 .

The commit is a clean cherry pick in Artful.

[Testcase]
1 - Verify if the perf has the PMU events available via the latest version of 
skiboot.
# perf list | grep core_imc
# perf list | grep nest_
# perf list | grep thread_imc

2 - Test couple of them like that:
# ./perf stat -e nest_mcs0/PM_MCS_UP_128B_DATA_XFER_MC2/ -a -A sleep 5

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Title:
  Power8 Nest PMU Instrumentation support

Status in linux package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in linux source package in Artful:
  New

Bug description:
  This is a bug for Canonical awareness that we want to have the
  following patches included in 15.10.

  They are still under development/review:

  https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/482968/
  https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/482969/
  https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/482970/
  https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/482971/
  https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/482972/
  https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/482973/
  https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/482974/

  Patches under review.

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