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Diffstat (limited to 'tools/perf/Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | tools/perf/Documentation/perf-script.txt | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | tools/perf/Documentation/perf-trace.txt | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | tools/perf/Documentation/perf.data-file-format.txt | 11 |
3 files changed, 19 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-script.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-script.txt index 9e4def08d569..2e19fd7ffe35 100644 --- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-script.txt +++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-script.txt @@ -159,6 +159,12 @@ OPTIONS the override, and the result of the above is that only S/W and H/W events are displayed with the given fields. + It's possible tp add/remove fields only for specific event type: + + -Fsw:-cpu,-period + + removes cpu and period from software events. + For the 'wildcard' option if a user selected field is invalid for an event type, a message is displayed to the user that the option is ignored for that type. For example: diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-trace.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-trace.txt index 631e687be4eb..fc6e43262c41 100644 --- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-trace.txt +++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-trace.txt @@ -210,6 +210,14 @@ the thread executes on the designated CPUs. Default is to monitor all CPUs. may happen, for instance, when a thread gets migrated to a different CPU while processing a syscall. +--map-dump:: + Dump BPF maps setup by events passed via -e, for instance the augmented_raw_syscalls + living in tools/perf/examples/bpf/augmented_raw_syscalls.c. For now this + dumps just boolean map values and integer keys, in time this will print in hex + by default and use BTF when available, as well as use functions to do pretty + printing using the existing 'perf trace' syscall arg beautifiers to map integer + arguments to strings (pid to comm, syscall id to syscall name, etc). + PAGEFAULTS ---------- diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf.data-file-format.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf.data-file-format.txt index dfb218feaad9..593ef49b273c 100644 --- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf.data-file-format.txt +++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf.data-file-format.txt @@ -43,11 +43,10 @@ struct perf_file_section { Flags section: -The header is followed by different optional headers, described by the bits set -in flags. Only headers for which the bit is set are included. Each header -consists of a perf_file_section located after the initial header. -The respective perf_file_section points to the data of the additional -header and defines its size. +For each of the optional features a perf_file_section it placed after the data +section if the feature bit is set in the perf_header flags bitset. The +respective perf_file_section points to the data of the additional header and +defines its size. Some headers consist of strings, which are defined like this: @@ -131,7 +130,7 @@ An uint64_t with the total memory in bytes. HEADER_CMDLINE = 11, -A perf_header_string with the perf command line used to collect the data. +A perf_header_string_list with the perf arg-vector used to collect the data. HEADER_EVENT_DESC = 12, |