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diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/intel-pt.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/intel-pt.txt index 50c5b60101bd..e0d9e7dd4f17 100644 --- a/tools/perf/Documentation/intel-pt.txt +++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/intel-pt.txt @@ -919,3 +919,18 @@ amended to take the number of elements as a parameter. Note there is currently no advantage to using Intel PT instead of LBR, but that may change in the future if greater use is made of the data. + + +PEBS via Intel PT +================= + +Some hardware has the feature to redirect PEBS records to the Intel PT trace. +Recording is selected by using the aux-output config term e.g. + + perf record -c 10000 -e '{intel_pt/branch=0/,cycles/aux-output/ppp}' uname + +Note that currently, software only supports redirecting at most one PEBS event. + +To display PEBS events from the Intel PT trace, use the itrace 'o' option e.g. + + perf script --itrace=oe |