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authorKim Phillips <kim.phillips@amd.com>2020-09-01 23:58:53 +0200
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2020-09-03 21:00:37 +0200
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perf record/stat: Explicitly call out event modifiers in the documentation
Event modifiers are not mentioned in the perf record or perf stat manpages. Add them to orient new users more effectively by pointing them to the perf list manpage for details. Fixes: 2055fdaf8703 ("perf list: Document precise event sampling for AMD IBS") Signed-off-by: Kim Phillips <kim.phillips@amd.com> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Alexey Budankov <alexey.budankov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com> Cc: Jin Yao <yao.jin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Paul Clarke <pc@us.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Tony Jones <tonyj@suse.de> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200901215853.276234-1-kim.phillips@amd.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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-rw-r--r--tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt4
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/Documentation/perf-stat.txt4
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt
index 3f72d8e261f3..bd50cdff08a8 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt
@@ -33,6 +33,10 @@ OPTIONS
- a raw PMU event (eventsel+umask) in the form of rNNN where NNN is a
hexadecimal event descriptor.
+ - a symbolic or raw PMU event followed by an optional colon
+ and a list of event modifiers, e.g., cpu-cycles:p. See the
+ linkperf:perf-list[1] man page for details on event modifiers.
+
- a symbolically formed PMU event like 'pmu/param1=0x3,param2/' where
'param1', 'param2', etc are defined as formats for the PMU in
/sys/bus/event_source/devices/<pmu>/format/*.
diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-stat.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-stat.txt
index 947672fd9c70..db420dd75e43 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-stat.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-stat.txt
@@ -39,6 +39,10 @@ report::
- a raw PMU event (eventsel+umask) in the form of rNNN where NNN is a
hexadecimal event descriptor.
+ - a symbolic or raw PMU event followed by an optional colon
+ and a list of event modifiers, e.g., cpu-cycles:p. See the
+ linkperf:perf-list[1] man page for details on event modifiers.
+
- a symbolically formed event like 'pmu/param1=0x3,param2/' where
param1 and param2 are defined as formats for the PMU in
/sys/bus/event_source/devices/<pmu>/format/*