From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from e28smtp09.in.ibm.com (e28smtp09.in.ibm.com [122.248.162.9]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "e28smtp09.in.ibm.com", Issuer "GeoTrust SSL CA" (not verified)) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 977F32C00A7 for ; Wed, 22 May 2013 16:23:13 +1000 (EST) Received: from /spool/local by e28smtp09.in.ibm.com with IBM ESMTP SMTP Gateway: Authorized Use Only! Violators will be prosecuted for from ; Wed, 22 May 2013 11:49:16 +0530 Received: from d28relay01.in.ibm.com (d28relay01.in.ibm.com [9.184.220.58]) by d28dlp01.in.ibm.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 363E2E0055 for ; Wed, 22 May 2013 11:55:42 +0530 (IST) Received: from d28av01.in.ibm.com (d28av01.in.ibm.com [9.184.220.63]) by d28relay01.in.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v10.0) with ESMTP id r4M6N1mb31916124 for ; Wed, 22 May 2013 11:53:01 +0530 Received: from d28av01.in.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d28av01.in.ibm.com (8.14.4/8.13.1/NCO v10.0 AVout) with ESMTP id r4M6N75P011800 for ; Wed, 22 May 2013 06:23:08 GMT From: Anshuman Khandual To: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: [PATCH 5/5] perf, documentation: Description for conditional branch filter Date: Wed, 22 May 2013 11:52:41 +0530 Message-Id: <1369203761-12649-6-git-send-email-khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: <1369203761-12649-1-git-send-email-khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com> References: <1369203761-12649-1-git-send-email-khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: mikey@neuling.org, ak@linux.intel.com, peterz@infradead.org, eranian@google.com, mingo@kernel.org List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Adding documentation support for conditional branch filter. Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual --- tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt index d4da111..8b5e1ed 100644 --- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt +++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt @@ -169,12 +169,13 @@ following filters are defined: - any_call: any function call or system call - any_ret: any function return or system call return - ind_call: any indirect branch + - cond: conditional branches - u: only when the branch target is at the user level - k: only when the branch target is in the kernel - hv: only when the target is at the hypervisor level + -The option requires at least one branch type among any, any_call, any_ret, ind_call. +The option requires at least one branch type among any, any_call, any_ret, ind_call, cond. The privilege levels may be omitted, in which case, the privilege levels of the associated event are applied to the branch filter. Both kernel (k) and hypervisor (hv) privilege levels are subject to permissions. When sampling on multiple events, branch stack sampling -- 1.7.11.7