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authorAndi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>2019-06-29 01:09:00 +0300
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2019-07-02 22:08:16 +0300
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perf tools: Fix typos / broken sentences
- Fix a typo in the man page - Fix a tip that doesn't make any sense. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190628220900.13741-1-andi@firstfloor.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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@@ -38,6 +38,6 @@ To report cacheline events from previous recording: perf c2c report
To browse sample contexts use perf report --sample 10 and select in context menu
To separate samples by time use perf report --sort time,overhead,sym
To set sample time separation other than 100ms with --sort time use --time-quantum
-Add -I to perf report to sample register values visible in perf report context.
+Add -I to perf record to sample register values, which will be visible in perf report sample context.
To show IPC for sampling periods use perf record -e '{cycles,instructions}:S' and then browse context
To show context switches in perf report sample context add --switch-events to perf record.