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| author | Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> | 2009-06-12 09:53:47 +0200 |
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| committer | Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> | 2009-06-12 11:32:58 +0200 |
| commit | 5b02ee3d219f9e01b6e9146e25613822cfc2e5ce (patch) | |
| tree | 7ce9126738c3cf4b37d67170d0e4b34818c057a9 /tools/perf/Documentation/perf-top.txt | |
| parent | 26a28fa4fea5b8c65713aa50c124f76a88c7924d (diff) | |
| parent | 8ebf975608aaebd7feb33d77f07ba21a6380e086 (diff) | |
asm-generic: merge branch 'master' of torvalds/linux-2.6
Fixes a merge conflict against the x86 tree caused by a fix to
atomic.h which I renamed to atomic_long.h.
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
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diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-top.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-top.txt new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..539d0128972 --- /dev/null +++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-top.txt @@ -0,0 +1,39 @@ +perf-top(1) +=========== + +NAME +---- +perf-top - Run a command and profile it + +SYNOPSIS +-------- +[verse] +'perf top' [-e <EVENT> | --event=EVENT] [-l] [-a] <command> + +DESCRIPTION +----------- +This command runs a command and gathers a performance counter profile +from it. + + +OPTIONS +------- +<command>...:: + Any command you can specify in a shell. + +-e:: +--event=:: + Select the PMU event. Selection can be a symbolic event name + (use 'perf list' to list all events) or a raw PMU + event (eventsel+umask) in the form of rNNN where NNN is a + hexadecimal event descriptor. + +-a:: + system-wide collection + +-l:: + scale counter values + +SEE ALSO +-------- +linkperf:perf-stat[1], linkperf:perf-list[1] |