From ca52babe033f2a0a535ce7c814e54a44cead1f15 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andi Kleen Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2019 07:44:59 -0700 Subject: perf tools: Add some new tips describing the new options Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen Acked-by: Jiri Olsa Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190311144502.15423-9-andi@firstfloor.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo --- tools/perf/Documentation/tips.txt | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) (limited to 'tools/perf/Documentation') diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/tips.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/tips.txt index 849599f39c5e..869965d629ce 100644 --- a/tools/perf/Documentation/tips.txt +++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/tips.txt @@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ To see callchains in a more compact form: perf report -g folded Show individual samples with: perf script Limit to show entries above 5% only: perf report --percent-limit 5 Profiling branch (mis)predictions with: perf record -b / perf report +To show assembler sample contexts use perf record -b / perf script -F +brstackinsn --xed Treat branches as callchains: perf report --branch-history To count events in every 1000 msec: perf stat -I 1000 Print event counts in CSV format with: perf stat -x, @@ -34,3 +35,9 @@ Show current config key-value pairs: perf config --list Show user configuration overrides: perf config --user --list To add Node.js USDT(User-Level Statically Defined Tracing): perf buildid-cache --add `which node` To report cacheline events from previous recording: perf c2c report +To browse sample contexts use perf report --sample 10 and select in context menu +To separate samples by time use perf report --sort time,overhead,sym +To set sample time separation other than 100ms with --sort time use --time-quantum +Add -I to perf report to sample register values visible in perf report context. +To show IPC for sampling periods use perf record -e '{cycles,instructions}:S' and then browse context +To show context switches in perf report sample context add --switch-events to perf record. -- cgit v1.2.3