From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755982AbaEEJLR (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 May 2014 05:11:17 -0400 Received: from e28smtp07.in.ibm.com ([122.248.162.7]:43370 "EHLO e28smtp07.in.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755636AbaEEJLD (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 May 2014 05:11:03 -0400 From: Anshuman Khandual To: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: michael@ellerman.id.au, mikey@neuling.org, ak@linux.intel.com, eranian@google.com, acme@ghostprotocols.net, sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com, mingo@kernel.org Subject: [V6 04/11] perf, documentation: Description for conditional branch filter Date: Mon, 5 May 2014 14:39:06 +0530 Message-Id: <1399280953-31442-5-git-send-email-khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.7.11.7 In-Reply-To: <1399280953-31442-1-git-send-email-khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com> References: <1399280953-31442-1-git-send-email-khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com> X-TM-AS-MML: disable X-Content-Scanned: Fidelis XPS MAILER x-cbid: 14050509-8878-0000-0000-00000C427D3C Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Adding documentation support for conditional branch filter. Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual Reviewed-by: Stephane Eranian Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen --- 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 c71b0f3..d460049 100644 --- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt +++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt @@ -184,9 +184,10 @@ following filters are defined: - in_tx: only when the target is in a hardware transaction - no_tx: only when the target is not in a hardware transaction - abort_tx: only when the target is a hardware transaction abort + - cond: conditional branches + -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