Merge branch 'perf/hw_breakpoints' into perf/core

The new hw_breakpoint bits are now ready for v3.20, merge them
into the main branch, to avoid conflicts.

Conflicts:
	tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt
index 7d8df2e5edd8..31e977459c51 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt
@@ -45,12 +45,15 @@ OPTIONS
           param1 and param2 are defined as formats for the PMU in:
           /sys/bus/event_sources/devices/<pmu>/format/*
 
-        - a hardware breakpoint event in the form of '\mem:addr[:access]'
+        - a hardware breakpoint event in the form of '\mem:addr[/len][: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]]'.
+          be passed as follows: '\mem:addr[:[r][w][x]]'. len is the range,
+          number of bytes from specified addr, which the breakpoint will cover.
           If you want to profile read-write accesses in 0x1000, just set
           'mem:0x1000:rw'.
+          If you want to profile write accesses in [0x1000~1008), just set
+          'mem:0x1000/8:w'.
 
 --filter=<filter>::
         Event filter.