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| author | Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com> | 2022-11-17 17:43:37 +0100 |
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| committer | Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> | 2022-11-23 14:29:59 +0100 |
| commit | 6ed249441a7d3ead8e81cc926e68d5e7ae031032 (patch) | |
| tree | 4400e6e1316ec310612e5bb442834ce199715291 /tools/perf/Documentation | |
| parent | perf list: Reorganize to use callbacks to allow honouring command line options (diff) | |
| download | linux-6ed249441a7d3ead8e81cc926e68d5e7ae031032.tar.xz linux-6ed249441a7d3ead8e81cc926e68d5e7ae031032.zip | |
perf list: Add JSON output option
Output events and metrics in a JSON format by overriding the print
callbacks. Currently other command line options aren't supported and
metrics are repeated once per metric group.
Committer testing:
$ perf list cache
List of pre-defined events (to be used in -e or -M):
L1-dcache-load-misses [Hardware cache event]
L1-dcache-loads [Hardware cache event]
L1-dcache-prefetches [Hardware cache event]
L1-icache-load-misses [Hardware cache event]
L1-icache-loads [Hardware cache event]
branch-load-misses [Hardware cache event]
branch-loads [Hardware cache event]
dTLB-load-misses [Hardware cache event]
dTLB-loads [Hardware cache event]
iTLB-load-misses [Hardware cache event]
iTLB-loads [Hardware cache event]
$ perf list --json cache
[
{
"Unit": "cache",
"EventName": "L1-dcache-load-misses",
"EventType": "Hardware cache event"
},
{
"Unit": "cache",
"EventName": "L1-dcache-loads",
"EventType": "Hardware cache event"
},
{
"Unit": "cache",
"EventName": "L1-dcache-prefetches",
"EventType": "Hardware cache event"
},
{
"Unit": "cache",
"EventName": "L1-icache-load-misses",
"EventType": "Hardware cache event"
},
{
"Unit": "cache",
"EventName": "L1-icache-loads",
"EventType": "Hardware cache event"
},
{
"Unit": "cache",
"EventName": "branch-load-misses",
"EventType": "Hardware cache event"
},
{
"Unit": "cache",
"EventName": "branch-loads",
"EventType": "Hardware cache event"
},
{
"Unit": "cache",
"EventName": "dTLB-load-misses",
"EventType": "Hardware cache event"
},
{
"Unit": "cache",
"EventName": "dTLB-loads",
"EventType": "Hardware cache event"
},
{
"Unit": "cache",
"EventName": "iTLB-load-misses",
"EventType": "Hardware cache event"
},
{
"Unit": "cache",
"EventName": "iTLB-loads",
"EventType": "Hardware cache event"
}
]
$
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Caleb Biggers <caleb.biggers@intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Kajol Jain <kjain@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Leo Yan <leo.yan@linaro.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Perry Taylor <perry.taylor@intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@amd.com>
Cc: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
Cc: Sandipan Das <sandipan.das@amd.com>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Weilin Wang <weilin.wang@intel.com>
Cc: Xin Gao <gaoxin@cdjrlc.com>
Cc: Xing Zhengjun <zhengjun.xing@linux.intel.com>
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20221114210723.2749751-11-irogers@google.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/perf/Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | tools/perf/Documentation/perf-list.txt | 4 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-list.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-list.txt index 44a819af573d..c5a3cb0f57c7 100644 --- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-list.txt +++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-list.txt @@ -43,6 +43,10 @@ Print deprecated events. By default the deprecated events are hidden. Print PMU events and metrics limited to the specific PMU name. (e.g. --unit cpu, --unit msr, --unit cpu_core, --unit cpu_atom) +-j:: +--json:: +Output in JSON format. + [[EVENT_MODIFIERS]] EVENT MODIFIERS --------------- |