From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Subject: [PATCH 27/30] perf tools: Add some new tips describing the new options Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2019 23:02:01 -0300 Message-ID: <20190312020204.22092-28-acme@kernel.org> References: <20190312020204.22092-1-acme@kernel.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20190312020204.22092-1-acme@kernel.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Ingo Molnar Cc: Jiri Olsa , Namhyung Kim , Clark Williams , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org, Andi Kleen , Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo List-Id: linux-perf-users.vger.kernel.org From: Andi Kleen Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen Acked-by: Jiri Olsa Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190311144502.15423-9-andi@firstfloor.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo --- tools/perf/Documentation/tips.txt | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/tips.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/tips.txt index 849599f39c5e..869965d629ce 100644 --- a/tools/perf/Documentation/tips.txt +++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/tips.txt @@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ To see callchains in a more compact form: perf report -g folded Show individual samples with: perf script Limit to show entries above 5% only: perf report --percent-limit 5 Profiling branch (mis)predictions with: perf record -b / perf report +To show assembler sample contexts use perf record -b / perf script -F +brstackinsn --xed Treat branches as callchains: perf report --branch-history To count events in every 1000 msec: perf stat -I 1000 Print event counts in CSV format with: perf stat -x, @@ -34,3 +35,9 @@ Show current config key-value pairs: perf config --list Show user configuration overrides: perf config --user --list To add Node.js USDT(User-Level Statically Defined Tracing): perf buildid-cache --add `which node` To report cacheline events from previous recording: perf c2c report +To browse sample contexts use perf report --sample 10 and select in context menu +To separate samples by time use perf report --sort time,overhead,sym +To set sample time separation other than 100ms with --sort time use --time-quantum +Add -I to perf report to sample register values visible in perf report context. +To show IPC for sampling periods use perf record -e '{cycles,instructions}:S' and then browse context +To show context switches in perf report sample context add --switch-events to perf record. -- 2.20.1