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authorCody P Schafer <cody@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2015-01-08 04:13:53 +0300
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2015-01-21 19:24:33 +0300
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perf tools: Document parameterized and symbolic events
Signed-off-by: Cody P Schafer <cody@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Cody P Schafer <dev@codyps.com> Cc: Haren Myneni <hbabu@us.ibm.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1420679633-28856-5-git-send-email-sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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@@ -89,6 +89,19 @@ raw encoding of 0x1A8 can be used:
You should refer to the processor specific documentation for getting these
details. Some of them are referenced in the SEE ALSO section below.
+PARAMETERIZED EVENTS
+--------------------
+
+Some pmu events listed by 'perf-list' will be displayed with '?' in them. For
+example:
+
+ hv_gpci/dtbp_ptitc,phys_processor_idx=?/
+
+This means that when provided as an event, a value for '?' must
+also be supplied. For example:
+
+ perf stat -C 0 -e 'hv_gpci/dtbp_ptitc,phys_processor_idx=0x2/' ...
+
OPTIONS
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