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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.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.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf.txt new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..69c83255719 --- /dev/null +++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf.txt @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@ +perf(1) +======= + +NAME +---- +perf - Performance analysis tools for Linux + +SYNOPSIS +-------- +[verse] +'perf' [--version] [--help] COMMAND [ARGS] + +DESCRIPTION +----------- +Performance counters for Linux are are a new kernel-based subsystem +that provide a framework for all things performance analysis. It +covers hardware level (CPU/PMU, Performance Monitoring Unit) features +and software features (software counters, tracepoints) as well. + +SEE ALSO +-------- +linkperf:perf-stat[1], linkperf:perf-top[1], +linkperf:perf-record[1], linkperf:perf-report[1], +linkperf:perf-list[1] |