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diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/perf_event_server.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/perf_event_server.h
index 814622146..e157489ee 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/perf_event_server.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/perf_event_server.h
@@ -136,16 +136,24 @@ extern ssize_t power_events_sysfs_show(struct device *dev,
* event 'cpu-cycles' can have two entries in sysfs: 'cpu-cycles' and
* 'PM_CYC' where the latter is the name by which the event is known in
* POWER CPU specification.
+ *
+ * Similarly, some hardware and cache events use the same event code. Eg.
+ * on POWER8, both "cache-references" and "L1-dcache-loads" events refer
+ * to the same event, PM_LD_REF_L1. The suffix, allows us to have two
+ * sysfs objects for the same event and thus two entries/aliases in sysfs.
*/
#define EVENT_VAR(_id, _suffix) event_attr_##_id##_suffix
#define EVENT_PTR(_id, _suffix) &EVENT_VAR(_id, _suffix).attr.attr
#define EVENT_ATTR(_name, _id, _suffix) \
- PMU_EVENT_ATTR(_name, EVENT_VAR(_id, _suffix), PME_##_id, \
+ PMU_EVENT_ATTR(_name, EVENT_VAR(_id, _suffix), _id, \
power_events_sysfs_show)
#define GENERIC_EVENT_ATTR(_name, _id) EVENT_ATTR(_name, _id, _g)
#define GENERIC_EVENT_PTR(_id) EVENT_PTR(_id, _g)
+#define CACHE_EVENT_ATTR(_name, _id) EVENT_ATTR(_name, _id, _c)
+#define CACHE_EVENT_PTR(_id) EVENT_PTR(_id, _c)
+
#define POWER_EVENT_ATTR(_name, _id) EVENT_ATTR(_name, _id, _p)
#define POWER_EVENT_PTR(_id) EVENT_PTR(_id, _p)