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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2014-04-17 10:06:47 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2014-04-17 10:06:47 +0200
commitb3d5fc3c297fd379956689dc4d7d6af077ac35c2 (patch)
tree2c0882061596156ef39e17360c442aef4a64c3b6 /tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt
parentfbdd17ec5ce2e5e4027356fcfde769b88d15702f (diff)
parenta83edb2dfc5989fbadc594109c933bae528a2809 (diff)
Merge tag 'perf-core-for-mingo' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jolsa/perf into perf/core
Pull perf/core improvements and fixes from Jiri Olsa: User visible changes: * Add --percentage option to control absolute/relative percentage output (Namhyung Kim) Plumbing changes: * Add --list-cmds to 'kmem', 'mem', 'lock' and 'sched', for use by completion scripts (Ramkumar Ramachandra) Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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@@ -25,10 +25,6 @@ OPTIONS
--verbose::
Be more verbose. (show symbol address, etc)
--d::
---dsos=::
- Only consider symbols in these dsos. CSV that understands
- file://filename entries.
-n::
--show-nr-samples::
Show the number of samples for each symbol
@@ -42,11 +38,18 @@ OPTIONS
-c::
--comms=::
Only consider symbols in these comms. CSV that understands
- file://filename entries.
+ file://filename entries. This option will affect the percentage of
+ the overhead column. See --percentage for more info.
+-d::
+--dsos=::
+ Only consider symbols in these dsos. CSV that understands
+ file://filename entries. This option will affect the percentage of
+ the overhead column. See --percentage for more info.
-S::
--symbols=::
Only consider these symbols. CSV that understands
- file://filename entries.
+ file://filename entries. This option will affect the percentage of
+ the overhead column. See --percentage for more info.
--symbol-filter=::
Only show symbols that match (partially) with this filter.
@@ -237,6 +240,15 @@ OPTIONS
Do not show entries which have an overhead under that percent.
(Default: 0).
+--percentage::
+ Determine how to display the overhead percentage of filtered entries.
+ Filters can be applied by --comms, --dsos and/or --symbols options and
+ Zoom operations on the TUI (thread, dso, etc).
+
+ "relative" means it's relative to filtered entries only so that the
+ sum of shown entries will be always 100%. "absolute" means it retains
+ the original value before and after the filter is applied.
+
--header::
Show header information in the perf.data file. This includes
various information like hostname, OS and perf version, cpu/mem