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| author | Cody P Schafer <cody@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2015-01-07 17:13:53 -0800 |
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| committer | Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> | 2015-01-21 13:24:33 -0300 |
| commit | f9ab9c196d015f3bd8f6bd1c30785c5a49542323 (patch) | |
| tree | 1ed52e10de1c9bc443e4fbe0c6775d725a999067 /tools/perf/Documentation/perf-list.txt | |
| parent | 98a43e0e9917059da32db89829b0eb95453a11ee (diff) | |
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perf tools: Document parameterized and symbolic events
Signed-off-by: Cody P Schafer <cody@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Cody P Schafer <dev@codyps.com>
Cc: Haren Myneni <hbabu@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1420679633-28856-5-git-send-email-sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-list.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-list.txt index cbb4f743d921..3e2aec94f806 100644 --- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-list.txt +++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-list.txt @@ -89,6 +89,19 @@ raw encoding of 0x1A8 can be used: You should refer to the processor specific documentation for getting these details. Some of them are referenced in the SEE ALSO section below. +PARAMETERIZED EVENTS +-------------------- + +Some pmu events listed by 'perf-list' will be displayed with '?' in them. For +example: + + hv_gpci/dtbp_ptitc,phys_processor_idx=?/ + +This means that when provided as an event, a value for '?' must +also be supplied. For example: + + perf stat -C 0 -e 'hv_gpci/dtbp_ptitc,phys_processor_idx=0x2/' ... + OPTIONS ------- |