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| author | James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> | 2009-06-19 08:20:55 +1000 |
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| committer | James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> | 2009-06-19 08:20:55 +1000 |
| commit | d905163c5b23f6d8511971e06081a1b525e8a0bd (patch) | |
| tree | f76918c1be802ec068d37763466f5518efdb690e /tools/perf/Documentation/perf-top.txt | |
| parent | 44c2d9bdd7022ca7d240d5adc009296fc1c6ce08 (diff) | |
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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] |