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authorNamhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>2014-02-07 07:06:07 +0400
committerJiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>2014-04-16 19:16:03 +0400
commit33db4568e1f41efe6d0e4695483f968fc1135bf3 (patch)
tree864186165ad27a133c773d36dd83b20cf5a19abc /tools/perf/Documentation
parentf2148330544a697481219b5bc34261f6dd049bfb (diff)
downloadlinux-33db4568e1f41efe6d0e4695483f968fc1135bf3.tar.xz
perf top: Add --percentage option
The --percentage option is for controlling overhead percentage displayed. It can only receive either of "relative" or "absolute". Move the parser callback function into a common location since it's used by multiple commands now. For more information, please see previous commit same thing done to "perf report". Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1397145720-8063-4-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
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1 files changed, 15 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-top.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-top.txt
index 976b00c6cdb1..64ed79c43639 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-top.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-top.txt
@@ -123,13 +123,16 @@ Default is to monitor all CPUS.
Show a column with the sum of periods.
--dsos::
- Only consider symbols in these dsos.
+ Only consider symbols in these dsos. This option will affect the
+ percentage of the overhead column. See --percentage for more info.
--comms::
- Only consider symbols in these comms.
+ Only consider symbols in these comms. This option will affect the
+ percentage of the overhead column. See --percentage for more info.
--symbols::
- Only consider these symbols.
+ Only consider these symbols. This option will affect the
+ percentage of the overhead column. See --percentage for more info.
-M::
--disassembler-style=:: Set disassembler style for objdump.
@@ -165,6 +168,15 @@ Default is to monitor all CPUS.
Do not show entries which have an overhead under that percent.
(Default: 0).
+--percentage::
+ Determine how to display the overhead percentage of filtered entries.
+ Filters can be applied by --comms, --dsos and/or --symbols options and
+ Zoom operations on the TUI (thread, dso, etc).
+
+ "relative" means it's relative to filtered entries only so that the
+ sum of shown entries will be always 100%. "absolute" means it retains
+ the original value before and after the filter is applied.
+
INTERACTIVE PROMPTING KEYS
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