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authorKim Phillips <kim.phillips@amd.com>2020-09-02 00:58:53 +0300
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2020-09-09 20:03:06 +0300
commit11519e7b9776cb27a008ccc1f3709b60c086ee3c (patch)
treea5e41c893d9ca48c5e6ead0bb7a443cd4f8a925a /tools/perf
parenta083dcdcfa2568747112edf865b3e848d70835e5 (diff)
downloadlinux-11519e7b9776cb27a008ccc1f3709b60c086ee3c.tar.xz
perf record/stat: Explicitly call out event modifiers in the documentation
commit e48a73a312ebf19cc3d72aa74985db25c30757c1 upstream. Event modifiers are not mentioned in the perf record or perf stat manpages. Add them to orient new users more effectively by pointing them to the perf list manpage for details. Fixes: 2055fdaf8703 ("perf list: Document precise event sampling for AMD IBS") Signed-off-by: Kim Phillips <kim.phillips@amd.com> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Alexey Budankov <alexey.budankov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com> Cc: Jin Yao <yao.jin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Paul Clarke <pc@us.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Tony Jones <tonyj@suse.de> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200901215853.276234-1-kim.phillips@amd.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/perf')
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt4
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/Documentation/perf-stat.txt4
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt
index 63526f4416ea..7b36bc6e32bb 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt
@@ -33,6 +33,10 @@ OPTIONS
- a raw PMU event (eventsel+umask) in the form of rNNN where NNN is a
hexadecimal event descriptor.
+ - a symbolic or raw PMU event followed by an optional colon
+ and a list of event modifiers, e.g., cpu-cycles:p. See the
+ linkperf:perf-list[1] man page for details on event modifiers.
+
- a symbolically formed PMU event like 'pmu/param1=0x3,param2/' where
'param1', 'param2', etc are defined as formats for the PMU in
/sys/bus/event_source/devices/<pmu>/format/*.
diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-stat.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-stat.txt
index c37d61682dfb..670aff81518b 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-stat.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-stat.txt
@@ -39,6 +39,10 @@ report::
- a raw PMU event (eventsel+umask) in the form of rNNN where NNN is a
hexadecimal event descriptor.
+ - a symbolic or raw PMU event followed by an optional colon
+ and a list of event modifiers, e.g., cpu-cycles:p. See the
+ linkperf:perf-list[1] man page for details on event modifiers.
+
- a symbolically formed event like 'pmu/param1=0x3,param2/' where
param1 and param2 are defined as formats for the PMU in
/sys/bus/event_source/devices/<pmu>/format/*