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-rw-r--r--tools/lib/perf/Documentation/Makefile2
-rw-r--r--tools/lib/perf/Documentation/examples/sampling.c2
-rw-r--r--tools/lib/perf/Documentation/libperf-counting.txt14
-rw-r--r--tools/lib/perf/Documentation/libperf-sampling.txt15
-rw-r--r--tools/lib/perf/Documentation/libperf.txt29
5 files changed, 35 insertions, 27 deletions
diff --git a/tools/lib/perf/Documentation/Makefile b/tools/lib/perf/Documentation/Makefile
index 972754082a85..573ca5b27556 100644
--- a/tools/lib/perf/Documentation/Makefile
+++ b/tools/lib/perf/Documentation/Makefile
@@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ install-man: all
$(INSTALL) -d -m 755 $(DESTDIR)$(man7dir); \
$(INSTALL) -m 644 $(MAN_7) $(DESTDIR)$(man7dir);
-install-html:
+install-html: $(MAN_HTML)
$(call QUIET_INSTALL, html) \
$(INSTALL) -d -m 755 $(DESTDIR)$(htmldir); \
$(INSTALL) -m 644 $(MAN_HTML) $(DESTDIR)$(htmldir); \
diff --git a/tools/lib/perf/Documentation/examples/sampling.c b/tools/lib/perf/Documentation/examples/sampling.c
index 8e1a926a9cfe..bc142f0664b5 100644
--- a/tools/lib/perf/Documentation/examples/sampling.c
+++ b/tools/lib/perf/Documentation/examples/sampling.c
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
libperf_init(libperf_print);
- cpus = perf_cpu_map__new(NULL);
+ cpus = perf_cpu_map__new_online_cpus();
if (!cpus) {
fprintf(stderr, "failed to create cpus\n");
return -1;
diff --git a/tools/lib/perf/Documentation/libperf-counting.txt b/tools/lib/perf/Documentation/libperf-counting.txt
index cae9757f49c1..8b75efcd67ce 100644
--- a/tools/lib/perf/Documentation/libperf-counting.txt
+++ b/tools/lib/perf/Documentation/libperf-counting.txt
@@ -7,13 +7,13 @@ libperf-counting - counting interface
DESCRIPTION
-----------
-The counting interface provides API to meassure and get count for specific perf events.
+The counting interface provides API to measure and get count for specific perf events.
The following test tries to explain count on `counting.c` example.
It is by no means complete guide to counting, but shows libperf basic API for counting.
-The `counting.c` comes with libbperf package and can be compiled and run like:
+The `counting.c` comes with libperf package and can be compiled and run like:
[source,bash]
--
@@ -26,7 +26,8 @@ count 176242, enabled 176242, run 176242
It requires root access, because of the `PERF_COUNT_SW_CPU_CLOCK` event,
which is available only for root.
-The `counting.c` example monitors two events on the current process and displays their count, in a nutshel it:
+The `counting.c` example monitors two events on the current process and displays
+their count, in a nutshell it:
* creates events
* adds them to the event list
@@ -152,7 +153,7 @@ Configure event list with the thread map and open events:
--
Both events are created as disabled (note the `disabled = 1` assignment above),
-so we need to enable the whole list explicitely (both events).
+so we need to enable the whole list explicitly (both events).
From this moment events are counting and we can do our workload.
@@ -167,7 +168,8 @@ When we are done we disable the events list.
79 perf_evlist__disable(evlist);
--
-Now we need to get the counts from events, following code iterates throught the events list and read counts:
+Now we need to get the counts from events, following code iterates through the
+events list and read counts:
[source,c]
--
@@ -178,7 +180,7 @@ Now we need to get the counts from events, following code iterates throught the
85 }
--
-And finaly cleanup.
+And finally cleanup.
We close the whole events list (both events) and remove it together with the threads map:
diff --git a/tools/lib/perf/Documentation/libperf-sampling.txt b/tools/lib/perf/Documentation/libperf-sampling.txt
index d71a7b4fcf5f..2378980fab8a 100644
--- a/tools/lib/perf/Documentation/libperf-sampling.txt
+++ b/tools/lib/perf/Documentation/libperf-sampling.txt
@@ -8,13 +8,13 @@ libperf-sampling - sampling interface
DESCRIPTION
-----------
-The sampling interface provides API to meassure and get count for specific perf events.
+The sampling interface provides API to measure and get count for specific perf events.
The following test tries to explain count on `sampling.c` example.
It is by no means complete guide to sampling, but shows libperf basic API for sampling.
-The `sampling.c` comes with libbperf package and can be compiled and run like:
+The `sampling.c` comes with libperf package and can be compiled and run like:
[source,bash]
--
@@ -33,7 +33,8 @@ cpu 0, pid 4465, tid 4470, ip 7f84fe0ebebf, period 176
It requires root access, because it uses hardware cycles event.
-The `sampling.c` example profiles/samples all CPUs with hardware cycles, in a nutshel it:
+The `sampling.c` example profiles/samples all CPUs with hardware cycles, in a
+nutshell it:
- creates events
- adds them to the event list
@@ -90,13 +91,13 @@ Once the setup is complete we start by defining cycles event using the `struct p
36 };
--
-Next step is to prepare cpus map.
+Next step is to prepare CPUs map.
In this case we will monitor all the available CPUs:
[source,c]
--
- 42 cpus = perf_cpu_map__new(NULL);
+ 42 cpus = perf_cpu_map__new_online_cpus();
43 if (!cpus) {
44 fprintf(stderr, "failed to create cpus\n");
45 return -1;
@@ -152,7 +153,7 @@ Once the events list is open, we can create memory maps AKA perf ring buffers:
--
The event is created as disabled (note the `disabled = 1` assignment above),
-so we need to enable the events list explicitely.
+so we need to enable the events list explicitly.
From this moment the cycles event is sampling.
@@ -212,7 +213,7 @@ Each sample needs to get parsed:
106 cpu, pid, tid, ip, period);
--
-And finaly cleanup.
+And finally cleanup.
We close the whole events list (both events) and remove it together with the threads map:
diff --git a/tools/lib/perf/Documentation/libperf.txt b/tools/lib/perf/Documentation/libperf.txt
index 5a6bb512789d..4072bc9b7670 100644
--- a/tools/lib/perf/Documentation/libperf.txt
+++ b/tools/lib/perf/Documentation/libperf.txt
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ SYNOPSIS
void libperf_init(libperf_print_fn_t fn);
--
-*API to handle cpu maps:*
+*API to handle CPU maps:*
[source,c]
--
@@ -37,17 +37,17 @@ SYNOPSIS
struct perf_cpu_map;
- struct perf_cpu_map *perf_cpu_map__dummy_new(void);
+ struct perf_cpu_map *perf_cpu_map__new_any_cpu(void);
struct perf_cpu_map *perf_cpu_map__new(const char *cpu_list);
- struct perf_cpu_map *perf_cpu_map__read(FILE *file);
struct perf_cpu_map *perf_cpu_map__get(struct perf_cpu_map *map);
struct perf_cpu_map *perf_cpu_map__merge(struct perf_cpu_map *orig,
struct perf_cpu_map *other);
void perf_cpu_map__put(struct perf_cpu_map *map);
int perf_cpu_map__cpu(const struct perf_cpu_map *cpus, int idx);
int perf_cpu_map__nr(const struct perf_cpu_map *cpus);
- bool perf_cpu_map__empty(const struct perf_cpu_map *map);
+ bool perf_cpu_map__has_any_cpu_or_is_empty(const struct perf_cpu_map *map);
int perf_cpu_map__max(struct perf_cpu_map *map);
+ bool perf_cpu_map__has(const struct perf_cpu_map *map, int cpu);
#define perf_cpu_map__for_each_cpu(cpu, idx, cpus)
--
@@ -61,11 +61,12 @@ SYNOPSIS
struct perf_thread_map;
struct perf_thread_map *perf_thread_map__new_dummy(void);
+ struct perf_thread_map *perf_thread_map__new_array(int nr_threads, pid_t *array);
- void perf_thread_map__set_pid(struct perf_thread_map *map, int thread, pid_t pid);
- char *perf_thread_map__comm(struct perf_thread_map *map, int thread);
+ void perf_thread_map__set_pid(struct perf_thread_map *map, int idx, pid_t pid);
+ char *perf_thread_map__comm(struct perf_thread_map *map, int idx);
int perf_thread_map__nr(struct perf_thread_map *threads);
- pid_t perf_thread_map__pid(struct perf_thread_map *map, int thread);
+ pid_t perf_thread_map__pid(struct perf_thread_map *map, int idx);
struct perf_thread_map *perf_thread_map__get(struct perf_thread_map *map);
void perf_thread_map__put(struct perf_thread_map *map);
@@ -135,13 +136,16 @@ SYNOPSIS
int perf_evsel__open(struct perf_evsel *evsel, struct perf_cpu_map *cpus,
struct perf_thread_map *threads);
void perf_evsel__close(struct perf_evsel *evsel);
- void perf_evsel__close_cpu(struct perf_evsel *evsel, int cpu);
- int perf_evsel__read(struct perf_evsel *evsel, int cpu, int thread,
+ void perf_evsel__close_cpu(struct perf_evsel *evsel, int cpu_map_idx);
+ int perf_evsel__mmap(struct perf_evsel *evsel, int pages);
+ void perf_evsel__munmap(struct perf_evsel *evsel);
+ void *perf_evsel__mmap_base(struct perf_evsel *evsel, int cpu_map_idx, int thread);
+ int perf_evsel__read(struct perf_evsel *evsel, int cpu_map_idx, int thread,
struct perf_counts_values *count);
int perf_evsel__enable(struct perf_evsel *evsel);
- int perf_evsel__enable_cpu(struct perf_evsel *evsel, int cpu);
+ int perf_evsel__enable_cpu(struct perf_evsel *evsel, int cpu_map_idx);
int perf_evsel__disable(struct perf_evsel *evsel);
- int perf_evsel__disable_cpu(struct perf_evsel *evsel, int cpu);
+ int perf_evsel__disable_cpu(struct perf_evsel *evsel, int cpu_map_idx);
struct perf_cpu_map *perf_evsel__cpus(struct perf_evsel *evsel);
struct perf_thread_map *perf_evsel__threads(struct perf_evsel *evsel);
struct perf_event_attr *perf_evsel__attr(struct perf_evsel *evsel);
@@ -206,6 +210,7 @@ SYNOPSIS
struct perf_record_time_conv;
struct perf_record_header_feature;
struct perf_record_compressed;
+ struct perf_record_compressed2;
--
DESCRIPTION
@@ -217,7 +222,7 @@ Following objects are key to the libperf interface:
[horizontal]
-struct perf_cpu_map:: Provides a cpu list abstraction.
+struct perf_cpu_map:: Provides a CPU list abstraction.
struct perf_thread_map:: Provides a thread list abstraction.