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From: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>,
	Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 4/9] perf report: Add mem-mode documentation to report command
Date: Wed, 28 May 2014 15:20:57 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1401283262-16035-5-git-send-email-jolsa@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1401283262-16035-1-git-send-email-jolsa@kernel.org>

From: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>

Add mem-mode sorting types and mem-mode itself to perf-report documentation.

Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1400526833-141779-5-git-send-email-dzickus@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
---
 tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+)

diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt
index a1b5185..4986bde 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt
@@ -117,6 +117,21 @@ OPTIONS
 	By default, every sort keys not specified in -F will be appended
 	automatically.
 
+	If --mem-mode option is used, following sort keys are also available
+	(incompatible with --branch-stack):
+	symbol_daddr, dso_daddr, locked, tlb, mem, snoop.
+
+	- symbol_daddr: name of data symbol being executed on at the time of sample
+	- dso_daddr: name of library or module containing the data being executed
+	on at the time of sample
+	- locked: whether the bus was locked at the time of sample
+	- tlb: type of tlb access for the data at the time of sample
+	- mem: type of memory access for the data at the time of sample
+	- snoop: type of snoop (if any) for the data at the time of sample
+
+	And default sort keys are changed to local_weight, mem, sym, dso,
+	symbol_daddr, dso_daddr, snoop, tlb, locked, see '--mem-mode'.
+
 -p::
 --parent=<regex>::
         A regex filter to identify parent. The parent is a caller of this
@@ -255,6 +270,13 @@ OPTIONS
 	Demangle symbol names to human readable form. It's enabled by default,
 	disable with --no-demangle.
 
+--mem-mode::
+	Use the data addresses of samples in addition to instruction addresses
+	to build the histograms.  To generate meaningful output, the perf.data
+	file must have been obtained using perf record -d -W and using a
+	special event -e cpu/mem-loads/ or -e cpu/mem-stores/. See
+	'perf mem' for simpler access.
+
 --percent-limit::
 	Do not show entries which have an overhead under that percent.
 	(Default: 0).
-- 
1.8.3.1


  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-05-28 13:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-05-28 13:20 [GIT PULL 0/9] perf/core improvements and fixes Jiri Olsa
2014-05-28 13:20 ` [PATCH 1/9] perf: Pass protection and flags bits through mmap2 interface Jiri Olsa
2014-05-28 13:20 ` [PATCH 2/9] Revert "perf: Disable PERF_RECORD_MMAP2 support" Jiri Olsa
2014-05-28 13:20 ` [PATCH 3/9] perf tools: Update mmap2 interface with protection and flag bits Jiri Olsa
2014-05-28 13:20 ` Jiri Olsa [this message]
2014-05-28 13:20 ` [PATCH 5/9] perf trace: Warn the user when not available Jiri Olsa
2014-05-28 13:20 ` [PATCH 6/9] perf tools: Add warning when disabling perl scripting support due to missing devel files Jiri Olsa
2014-05-28 13:21 ` [PATCH 7/9] perf tools: Consider header files outside perf directory in tags target Jiri Olsa
2014-05-28 13:21 ` [PATCH 8/9] perf tools: Allow overriding sysfs and proc finding with env var Jiri Olsa
2014-05-28 13:21 ` [PATCH 9/9] tools lib traceevent: Added support for __get_bitmask() macro Jiri Olsa

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