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From: Leo Yan <leo.yan@arm.com>
To: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>,
	 Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>, Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>,
	 Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>,
	Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>,
	 James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>,
	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>,
	 linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,  Leo Yan <leo.yan@arm.com>
Subject: [PATCH v6 3/4] perf report: Update document for SIMD flags
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2026 08:37:00 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260410-perf_support_arm_spev1-3-v6-3-3c6f2dfe2cd3@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260410-perf_support_arm_spev1-3-v6-0-3c6f2dfe2cd3@arm.com>

Update SIMD architecture and predicate flags.

Reviewed-by: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Leo Yan <leo.yan@arm.com>
---
 tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt
index 52f316628e43ac9851ecaa85f706e22c26294649..22f87eaa3279653836eaaa07a358c14f2e0afa75 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt
@@ -136,7 +136,10 @@ OPTIONS
 	- addr: (Full) virtual address of the sampled instruction
 	- retire_lat: On X86, this reports pipeline stall of this instruction compared
 	  to the previous instruction in cycles. And currently supported only on X86
-	- simd: Flags describing a SIMD operation. "e" for empty Arm SVE predicate. "p" for partial Arm SVE predicate
+	- simd: Flags describing a SIMD operation. The architecture type can be Arm's
+	  ASE (Advanced SIMD extension), SVE, SME. It provides an extra tag for
+	  predicate: "e" for empty predicate, "p" for partial predicate, "d" for
+	  predicate disabled, and "f" for full predicate.
 	- type: Data type of sample memory access.
 	- typeoff: Offset in the data type of sample memory access.
 	- symoff: Offset in the symbol.

-- 
2.34.1



  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-04-10  7:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-04-10  7:36 [PATCH v6 0/4] perf arm_spe: Extend SIMD operations Leo Yan
2026-04-10  7:36 ` [PATCH v6 1/4] perf sort: Support sort ASE and SME Leo Yan
2026-04-10  7:36 ` [PATCH v6 2/4] perf sort: Sort disabled and full predicated flags Leo Yan
2026-04-10  7:37 ` Leo Yan [this message]
2026-04-10  7:37 ` [PATCH v6 4/4] perf arm_spe: Improve SIMD flags setting Leo Yan
2026-04-12 19:11 ` [PATCH v6 0/4] perf arm_spe: Extend SIMD operations Namhyung Kim

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