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| author | Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> | 2016-01-05 19:58:36 +0900 |
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| committer | Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> | 2016-01-06 20:11:14 -0300 |
| commit | 4c96bee03247c6eab27287fa66457a231b9fab79 (patch) | |
| tree | b4c986e771b7c8b62f3769baeb9f7547f0acdafd /tools/perf/Documentation | |
| parent | 9735be24ec086fbccee321471cc21dedefa956a6 (diff) | |
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perf report: Add documentation for dynamic sort keys
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1451991518-25673-3-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/perf/Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt | 24 |
1 files changed, 24 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt index ae7cd91727f6..8a301f6afb37 100644 --- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt +++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt @@ -117,6 +117,30 @@ OPTIONS And default sort keys are changed to comm, dso_from, symbol_from, dso_to and symbol_to, see '--branch-stack'. + If the data file has tracepoint event(s), following (dynamic) sort keys + are also available: + trace, trace_fields, [<event>.]<field>[/raw] + + - trace: pretty printed trace output in a single column + - trace_fields: fields in tracepoints in separate columns + - <field name>: optional event and field name for a specific field + + The last form consists of event and field names. If event name is + omitted, it searches all events for matching field name. The matched + field will be shown only for the event has the field. The event name + supports substring match so user doesn't need to specify full subsystem + and event name everytime. For example, 'sched:sched_switch' event can + be shortened to 'switch' as long as it's not ambiguous. Also event can + be specified by its index (starting from 1) preceded by the '%'. + So '%1' is the first event, '%2' is the second, and so on. + + The field name can have '/raw' suffix which disables pretty printing + and shows raw field value like hex numbers. The --raw-trace option + has the same effect for all dynamic sort keys. + + The default sort keys are changed to 'trace' if all events in the data + file are tracepoint. + -F:: --fields=:: Specify output field - multiple keys can be specified in CSV format. |