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Diffstat (limited to 'tools/perf/Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt | 23 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | tools/perf/Documentation/perf-timechart.txt | 41 |
2 files changed, 43 insertions, 21 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt index cefdf43..d2b59af 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). diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-timechart.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-timechart.txt index bc5990c..5e0f986 100644 --- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-timechart.txt +++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-timechart.txt @@ -43,27 +43,6 @@ TIMECHART OPTIONS --symfs=<directory>:: Look for files with symbols relative to this directory. - -EXAMPLES --------- - -$ perf timechart record git pull - - [ perf record: Woken up 13 times to write data ] - [ perf record: Captured and wrote 4.253 MB perf.data (~185801 samples) ] - -$ perf timechart - - Written 10.2 seconds of trace to output.svg. - -Record system-wide timechart: - - $ perf timechart record - - then generate timechart and highlight 'gcc' tasks: - - $ perf timechart --highlight gcc - -n:: --proc-num:: Print task info for at least given number of tasks. @@ -88,6 +67,26 @@ RECORD OPTIONS --callchain:: Do call-graph (stack chain/backtrace) recording +EXAMPLES +-------- + +$ perf timechart record git pull + + [ perf record: Woken up 13 times to write data ] + [ perf record: Captured and wrote 4.253 MB perf.data (~185801 samples) ] + +$ perf timechart + + Written 10.2 seconds of trace to output.svg. + +Record system-wide timechart: + + $ perf timechart record + + then generate timechart and highlight 'gcc' tasks: + + $ perf timechart --highlight gcc + SEE ALSO -------- linkperf:perf-record[1] |