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authorAnshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2014-05-22 11:20:10 +0400
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2014-06-05 14:30:27 +0400
commit3e39db4ae2a92ae9e338e8066411b694b0edcb31 (patch)
treeb865886f0edbf04afab56ce917ed8c871b599bbe
parent37548914fbfcd56e1955a9b7e55dc3b84a3e9e25 (diff)
downloadlinux-3e39db4ae2a92ae9e338e8066411b694b0edcb31.tar.xz
perf/documentation: Add description for conditional branch filter
Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: mpe@ellerman.id.au Cc: benh@kernel.crashing.org Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1400743210-32289-4-git-send-email-khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt
index c71b0f36d9e8..d460049cae8e 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt
@@ -184,9 +184,10 @@ following filters are defined:
- in_tx: only when the target is in a hardware transaction
- no_tx: only when the target is not in a hardware transaction
- abort_tx: only when the target is a hardware transaction abort
+ - cond: conditional branches
+
-The option requires at least one branch type among any, any_call, any_ret, ind_call.
+The option requires at least one branch type among any, any_call, any_ret, ind_call, cond.
The privilege levels may be omitted, in which case, the privilege levels of the associated
event are applied to the branch filter. Both kernel (k) and hypervisor (hv) privilege
levels are subject to permissions. When sampling on multiple events, branch stack sampling