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author | Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> | 2010-05-07 17:07:05 (GMT) |
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committer | Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> | 2010-05-07 17:07:05 (GMT) |
commit | 1cf4a0632c24ea61162ed819bde358bc94c55510 (patch) | |
tree | ba5cfceb0bd6b48f15e2993706876035f4a174a4 /tools/perf/util/parse-events.c | |
parent | 4778e0e8c64f683a71632dba1cff1f85f76f83c4 (diff) | |
download | linux-fsl-qoriq-1cf4a0632c24ea61162ed819bde358bc94c55510.tar.xz |
perf list: Improve the raw hw event descriptor documentation
It was x86 specific and imcomplete at that, improve the situation by
making it clear where the example provided applies and by adding the
URLs for the Intel and AMD manuals where this is discussed in depth.
Acked-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Reported-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/perf/util/parse-events.c')
-rw-r--r-- | tools/perf/util/parse-events.c | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c b/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c index bc8b7e6..7b24b5d 100644 --- a/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c +++ b/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c @@ -936,7 +936,8 @@ void print_events(void) printf("\n"); printf(" %-42s [%s]\n", - "rNNN (NNN=<UMASK VALUE><EVENT NUM>)", event_type_descriptors[PERF_TYPE_RAW]); + "rNNN (see 'perf list --help' on how to encode it)", + event_type_descriptors[PERF_TYPE_RAW]); printf("\n"); printf(" %-42s [%s]\n", |