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| author | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2014-06-12 13:53:16 +0200 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2014-06-12 13:53:16 +0200 |
| commit | 94eb153130ce2c5f5f4959c96ea8197475bd66b6 (patch) | |
| tree | 452c7fd4bd5d494d8b170fd5e840a5ae004e65ba /tools/perf/Documentation | |
| parent | 82b897782d10fcc4930c9d4a15b175348fdd2871 (diff) | |
| parent | 9b32ba71ba905b90610fc2aad77cb98a373c5624 (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:
* Bitmask handling and plugin updates (Steven Rostedt)
* Fix pipe check regression in attr event callback (Jiri Olsa)
* Prettify the tags/TAGS/cscope targets output (Jiri Olsa)
* Print array argument as string (Namhyung Kim)
* Pass protection and flags bits through mmap2 interface (Peter Zijlstra)
* Update perf tool mmap2 interface with protection and flag bits (Don Zickus)
* Re-enable mmap interface (Don Zickus)
* Add mem-mode documentation to report command (Don Zickus)
* Add sort on dcacheline (Don Zickus)
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/perf/Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt | 23 |
1 files changed, 23 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt index cefdf430d1b..d2b59af62bc 100644 --- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt +++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt @@ -117,6 +117,22 @@ OPTIONS By default, every sort keys not specified in -F will be appended automatically. + If --mem-mode option is used, following sort keys are also available + (incompatible with --branch-stack): + symbol_daddr, dso_daddr, locked, tlb, mem, snoop, dcacheline. + + - symbol_daddr: name of data symbol being executed on at the time of sample + - dso_daddr: name of library or module containing the data being executed + on at the time of sample + - locked: whether the bus was locked at the time of sample + - tlb: type of tlb access for the data at the time of sample + - mem: type of memory access for the data at the time of sample + - snoop: type of snoop (if any) for the data at the time of sample + - dcacheline: the cacheline the data address is on at the time of sample + + And default sort keys are changed to local_weight, mem, sym, dso, + symbol_daddr, dso_daddr, snoop, tlb, locked, see '--mem-mode'. + -p:: --parent=<regex>:: A regex filter to identify parent. The parent is a caller of this @@ -260,6 +276,13 @@ OPTIONS Demangle symbol names to human readable form. It's enabled by default, disable with --no-demangle. +--mem-mode:: + Use the data addresses of samples in addition to instruction addresses + to build the histograms. To generate meaningful output, the perf.data + file must have been obtained using perf record -d -W and using a + special event -e cpu/mem-loads/ or -e cpu/mem-stores/. See + 'perf mem' for simpler access. + --percent-limit:: Do not show entries which have an overhead under that percent. (Default: 0). |