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Diffstat (limited to 'tools/perf/Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | tools/perf/Documentation/Makefile | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | tools/perf/Documentation/perf-list.txt | 6 |
2 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/Makefile b/tools/perf/Documentation/Makefile index 3ba1c0b09908..098cfb9ca8f0 100644 --- a/tools/perf/Documentation/Makefile +++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/Makefile @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ include ../../scripts/Makefile.include -include ../config/utilities.mak +include ../../scripts/utilities.mak MAN1_TXT= \ $(filter-out $(addsuffix .txt, $(ARTICLES) $(SP_ARTICLES)), \ diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-list.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-list.txt index 79483f40e991..ec723d0a5bb3 100644 --- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-list.txt +++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-list.txt @@ -40,10 +40,12 @@ address should be. The 'p' modifier can be specified multiple times: 0 - SAMPLE_IP can have arbitrary skid 1 - SAMPLE_IP must have constant skid 2 - SAMPLE_IP requested to have 0 skid - 3 - SAMPLE_IP must have 0 skid + 3 - SAMPLE_IP must have 0 skid, or uses randomization to avoid + sample shadowing effects. For Intel systems precise event sampling is implemented with PEBS -which supports up to precise-level 2. +which supports up to precise-level 2, and precise level 3 for +some special cases On AMD systems it is implemented using IBS (up to precise-level 2). The precise modifier works with event types 0x76 (cpu-cycles, CPU |