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authorChangbin Du <changbin.du@gmail.com>2019-02-01 14:46:51 +0100
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2019-02-06 14:00:40 +0100
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perf tools: Add documentation for BPF event selection
Add documentation for how to pass a BPF program as a perf event. Signed-off-by: Changbin Du <changbin.du@gmail.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190201134651.12373-1-changbin.du@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-config.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-config.txt
index 4ac7775fbc11..86f3dcc15f83 100644
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+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-config.txt
@@ -120,6 +120,10 @@ Given a $HOME/.perfconfig like this:
children = true
group = true
+ [llvm]
+ dump-obj = true
+ clang-opt = -g
+
You can hide source code of annotate feature setting the config to false with
% perf config annotate.hide_src_code=true
@@ -553,6 +557,33 @@ trace.*::
trace.show_zeros::
Do not suppress syscall arguments that are equal to zero.
+llvm.*::
+ llvm.clang-path::
+ Path to clang. If omit, search it from $PATH.
+
+ llvm.clang-bpf-cmd-template::
+ Cmdline template. Below lines show its default value. Environment
+ variable is used to pass options.
+ "$CLANG_EXEC -D__KERNEL__ $CLANG_OPTIONS $KERNEL_INC_OPTIONS \
+ -Wno-unused-value -Wno-pointer-sign -working-directory \
+ $WORKING_DIR -c $CLANG_SOURCE -target bpf -O2 -o -"
+
+ llvm.clang-opt::
+ Options passed to clang.
+
+ llvm.kbuild-dir::
+ kbuild directory. If not set, use /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build.
+ If set to "" deliberately, skip kernel header auto-detector.
+
+ llvm.kbuild-opts::
+ Options passed to 'make' when detecting kernel header options.
+
+ llvm.dump-obj::
+ Enable perf dump BPF object files compiled by LLVM.
+
+ llvm.opts::
+ Options passed to llc.
+
SEE ALSO
--------
linkperf:perf[1]