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author | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2009-06-06 20:33:43 +0200 |
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committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2009-06-06 20:33:43 +0200 |
commit | 864709302a80f26fa9da3be5b47304f0b8bae192 (patch) | |
tree | 8c2bab78f141fe43a38914bd3e3aae0a88f958e5 /tools/perf/Documentation/perf-top.txt | |
parent | Merge branch 'linus' into perfcounters/core (diff) | |
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perf_counter tools: Move from Documentation/perf_counter/ to tools/perf/
Several people have suggested that 'perf' has become a full-fledged
tool that should be moved out of Documentation/. Move it to the
(new) tools/ directory.
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-top.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-top.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..539d01289725 --- /dev/null +++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-top.txt @@ -0,0 +1,39 @@ +perf-top(1) +=========== + +NAME +---- +perf-top - Run a command and profile it + +SYNOPSIS +-------- +[verse] +'perf top' [-e <EVENT> | --event=EVENT] [-l] [-a] <command> + +DESCRIPTION +----------- +This command runs a command and gathers a performance counter profile +from it. + + +OPTIONS +------- +<command>...:: + Any command you can specify in a shell. + +-e:: +--event=:: + Select the PMU event. Selection can be a symbolic event name + (use 'perf list' to list all events) or a raw PMU + event (eventsel+umask) in the form of rNNN where NNN is a + hexadecimal event descriptor. + +-a:: + system-wide collection + +-l:: + scale counter values + +SEE ALSO +-------- +linkperf:perf-stat[1], linkperf:perf-list[1] |