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| author | Cody P Schafer <cody@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2015-01-08 04:13:53 +0300 |
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| committer | Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> | 2015-01-21 19:24:33 +0300 |
| commit | f9ab9c196d015f3bd8f6bd1c30785c5a49542323 (patch) | |
| tree | 1ed52e10de1c9bc443e4fbe0c6775d725a999067 /tools/perf/Documentation/perf-stat.txt | |
| parent | 98a43e0e9917059da32db89829b0eb95453a11ee (diff) | |
| download | linux-f9ab9c196d015f3bd8f6bd1c30785c5a49542323.tar.xz | |
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/perf/Documentation/perf-stat.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | tools/perf/Documentation/perf-stat.txt | 20 |
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-stat.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-stat.txt index 29ee857c09c6..04e150d83e7d 100644 --- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-stat.txt +++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-stat.txt @@ -25,10 +25,22 @@ 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 symbolically formed event like 'pmu/param1=0x3,param2/' where + param1 and param2 are defined as formats for the PMU in + /sys/bus/event_sources/devices/<pmu>/format/* + + - a symbolically formed event like 'pmu/config=M,config1=N,config2=K/' + where M, N, K are numbers (in decimal, hex, octal format). + Acceptable values for each of 'config', 'config1' and 'config2' + parameters are defined by corresponding entries in + /sys/bus/event_sources/devices/<pmu>/format/* -i:: --no-inherit:: |