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authorAndi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>2013-04-20 11:02:29 -0700
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2013-07-12 13:53:53 -0300
commitdc098b35b56f83ae088e4291a4e389a6ff126965 (patch)
tree485b4a870edc5b4bfeada71859c271cf1d9742cf /tools/perf/Documentation
parent50e200f07948400694238e08e7add73df5ba8f83 (diff)
perf list: List kernel supplied event aliases
List the kernel supplied pmu event aliases in perf list It's better when the users can actually see them. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1366480949-32292-2-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-list.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-list.txt
index d1e39dc8c81..826f3d6d1d2 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-list.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-list.txt
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ perf-list - List all symbolic event types
SYNOPSIS
--------
[verse]
-'perf list' [hw|sw|cache|tracepoint|event_glob]
+'perf list' [hw|sw|cache|tracepoint|pmu|event_glob]
DESCRIPTION
-----------
@@ -104,6 +104,8 @@ To limit the list use:
'subsys_glob:event_glob' to filter by tracepoint subsystems such as sched,
block, etc.
+. 'pmu' to print the kernel supplied PMU events.
+
. If none of the above is matched, it will apply the supplied glob to all
events, printing the ones that match.