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| author | Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> | 2022-09-05 10:34:21 +0300 |
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| committer | Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> | 2022-10-04 14:55:21 +0300 |
| commit | 52de6aacbe3dc498456a565a85adb2b35f2d05b6 (patch) | |
| tree | 789f2d08e52948675e8a30f04d027a6148c6c3ba /tools/perf/Documentation | |
| parent | a7fdd30a22448f17e942436b9db2a94b48218eb6 (diff) | |
| download | linux-52de6aacbe3dc498456a565a85adb2b35f2d05b6.tar.xz | |
perf intel-pt: Improve man page layout slightly
Improve man page layout slightly by adding blank lines.
Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220905073424.3971-4-adrian.hunter@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/perf/Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | tools/perf/Documentation/perf-intel-pt.txt | 8 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-intel-pt.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-intel-pt.txt index 3dc3f0ccbd51..d5ddb968bcf4 100644 --- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-intel-pt.txt +++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-intel-pt.txt @@ -943,12 +943,15 @@ event packets are recorded only if the "pwr_evt" config term was used. Refer to the config terms section above. The power events record information about C-state changes, whereas CBR is indicative of CPU frequency. perf script "event,synth" fields display information like this: + cbr: cbr: 22 freq: 2189 MHz (200%) mwait: hints: 0x60 extensions: 0x1 pwre: hw: 0 cstate: 2 sub-cstate: 0 exstop: ip: 1 pwrx: deepest cstate: 2 last cstate: 2 wake reason: 0x4 + Where: + "cbr" includes the frequency and the percentage of maximum non-turbo "mwait" shows mwait hints and extensions "pwre" shows C-state transitions (to a C-state deeper than C0) and @@ -956,6 +959,7 @@ Where: "exstop" indicates execution stopped and whether the IP was recorded exactly, "pwrx" indicates return to C0 + For more details refer to the Intel 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer Manuals. @@ -969,8 +973,10 @@ are quite important. Users must know if what they are seeing is a complete picture or not. The "e" option may be followed by flags which affect what errors will or will not be reported. Each flag must be preceded by either '+' or '-'. The flags supported by Intel PT are: + -o Suppress overflow errors -l Suppress trace data lost errors + For example, for errors but not overflow or data lost errors: --itrace=e-o-l @@ -980,9 +986,11 @@ decoded packets and instructions. Note that this option slows down the decoder and that the resulting file may be very large. The "d" option may be followed by flags which affect what debug messages will or will not be logged. Each flag must be preceded by either '+' or '-'. The flags support by Intel PT are: + -a Suppress logging of perf events +a Log all perf events +o Output to stdout instead of "intel_pt.log" + By default, logged perf events are filtered by any specified time ranges, but flag +a overrides that. |