[PATCH 6.9 051/374] perf docs: Document bpf event modifier

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2024-06-06T14:08:40Z

From: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>

[ Upstream commit eb4d27cf9aef3e6c9bcaf8fa1a1cadc2433d847b ]

Document that 'b' is used as a modifier to make an event use a BPF
counter.

Fixes: 01bd8efcec444468 ("perf stat: Introduce ':b' modifier")
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Athira Rajeev <atrajeev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@amd.com>
Cc: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Richter <tmricht@linux.ibm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240416170014.985191-1-irogers@google.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
tools/perf/Documentation/perf-list.txt | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-list.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-list.txt
index 3b12595193c9f..6bf2468f59d31 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-list.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-list.txt
@@ -71,6 +71,7 @@ counted. The following modifiers exist:
D - pin the event to the PMU
W - group is weak and will fallback to non-group if not schedulable,
e - group or event are exclusive and do not share the PMU
+ b - use BPF aggregration (see perf stat --bpf-counters)

The 'p' modifier can be used for specifying how precise the instruction
address should be. The 'p' modifier can be specified multiple times:
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