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authorJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>2018-06-08 11:20:42 +0300
committerJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>2018-06-08 11:20:42 +0300
commitc1144d29f405ce1f4e6ede6482beb3d0d09750c6 (patch)
tree0f9fe36a50005bae6ffe28a4f978e71273f5b1d1 /tools/perf/Documentation
parentd6c70a86bc72fabe7fc9d9533afdb46a56c16896 (diff)
parenta317e559574b2af62095b39792d168cb98cb2561 (diff)
downloadlinux-c1144d29f405ce1f4e6ede6482beb3d0d09750c6.tar.xz
Merge branch 'for-4.18/alps' into for-linus
hid-alps driver cleanups wrt. t4_read_write_register() handling from Christophe Jaillet
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-rw-r--r--tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt1
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/Documentation/perf-trace.txt3
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/Documentation/perf-version.txt24
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diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt
index e1a660e60849..917e36fde6d8 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt
@@ -80,6 +80,7 @@ OPTIONS
- comm: command (name) of the task which can be read via /proc/<pid>/comm
- pid: command and tid of the task
- dso: name of library or module executed at the time of sample
+ - dso_size: size of library or module executed at the time of sample
- symbol: name of function executed at the time of sample
- symbol_size: size of function executed at the time of sample
- parent: name of function matched to the parent regex filter. Unmatched
diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-trace.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-trace.txt
index 5a7035c5c523..115db9e06ecd 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-trace.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-trace.txt
@@ -117,6 +117,9 @@ the thread executes on the designated CPUs. Default is to monitor all CPUs.
--sched::
Accrue thread runtime and provide a summary at the end of the session.
+--failure::
+ Show only syscalls that failed, i.e. that returned < 0.
+
-i::
--input::
Process events from a given perf data file.
diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-version.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-version.txt
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..e207b7cfca26
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-version.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+perf-version(1)
+===============
+
+NAME
+----
+perf-version - display the version of perf binary
+
+SYNOPSIS
+--------
+'perf version' [--build-options]
+
+DESCRIPTION
+-----------
+With no options given, the 'perf version' prints the perf version
+on the standard output.
+
+If the option '--build-options' is given, then the status of
+compiled-in libraries are printed on the standard output.
+
+OPTIONS
+-------
+--build-options::
+ Prints the status of compiled-in libraries on the
+ standard output.