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| author | Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> | 2009-12-09 09:14:38 +0300 |
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| committer | Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> | 2009-12-09 09:14:38 +0300 |
| commit | bcd6acd51f3d4d1ada201e9bc5c40a31d6d80c71 (patch) | |
| tree | 2f6dffd2d3e4dd67355a224de7e7a960335a92fd /tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt | |
| parent | 11c34c7deaeeebcee342cbc35e1bb2a6711b2431 (diff) | |
| parent | 3ff6a468b45b5dfeb0e903e56f4eb27d34b2437c (diff) | |
| download | linux-bcd6acd51f3d4d1ada201e9bc5c40a31d6d80c71.tar.xz | |
Merge commit 'origin/master' into next
Conflicts:
include/linux/kvm.h
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diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt index 0ff23de9e453..fc46c0b40f6e 100644 --- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt +++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt @@ -26,11 +26,19 @@ OPTIONS -e:: --event=:: - Select the PMU event. Selection can be a symbolic event name - (use 'perf list' to list all events) or a raw PMU - event (eventsel+umask) in the form of rNNN where NNN is a - hexadecimal event descriptor. + Select the PMU event. Selection can be: + - a symbolic event name (use 'perf list' to list all events) + + - a raw PMU event (eventsel+umask) in the form of rNNN where NNN is a + hexadecimal event descriptor. + + - a hardware breakpoint event in the form of '\mem:addr[:access]' + where addr is the address in memory you want to break in. + Access is the memory access type (read, write, execute) it can + be passed as follows: '\mem:addr[:[r][w][x]]'. + If you want to profile read-write accesses in 0x1000, just set + 'mem:0x1000:rw'. -a:: System-wide collection. |