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| author |   Kan Liang <kan.liang@intel.com> | 2015-07-08 04:44:54 -0400 |
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| committer |   Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> | 2015-07-14 07:52:00 -0300 |
| commit | 3d5d68aabf4ff47cfb447ad90448ce50531be7f5 (patch) | |
| tree | 9142fa00716b138458d98eb85ee47ef35a16a688 /tools/perf/Documentation | |
| parent | Merge tag 'perf-core-for-mingo' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux into perf/core (diff) | |
| download | linux-dev-3d5d68aabf4ff47cfb447ad90448ce50531be7f5.tar.xz linux-dev-3d5d68aabf4ff47cfb447ad90448ce50531be7f5.zip | |
perf record: Document setting '-e pmu/period=N/' in man page
The 'period' param is not defined in
/sys/bus/event_sources/devices/<pmu>/format/*, but can be used, document
it.
Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@intel.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1436345097-11113-3-git-send-email-kan.liang@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/perf/Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt | 8 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt index 9b9d9d086680..5b47b2c88223 100644 --- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt +++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt @@ -45,6 +45,14 @@ OPTIONS param1 and param2 are defined as formats for the PMU in: /sys/bus/event_sources/devices/<pmu>/format/* + There are also some params which are not defined in .../<pmu>/format/*. + These params can be used to set event defaults. + Here is a list of the params. + - 'period': Set event sampling period + + Note: If user explicitly sets options which conflict with the params, + the value set by the params will be overridden. + - a hardware breakpoint event in the form of '\mem:addr[/len][:access]' where addr is the address in memory you want to break in. Access is the memory access type (read, write, execute) it can |