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authorAndi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>2016-03-21 11:56:33 -0400
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2016-03-22 09:01:45 -0400
commit4ca0d8193f8b6b2c74d05d9bbcbaa99fdd553503 (patch)
treea2179975234d8c61d43ef9d6fe5591115926cfa3 /tools
parent3c52b658b8e4fbbf7975932bbdc4798421dbcb15 (diff)
perf list: Fix documentation of :ppp
Correctly document what is implemented for :ppp on Intel CPUs in recent kernels. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1458575793-12091-2-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-list.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-list.txt
index 79483f40e991..ec723d0a5bb3 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-list.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-list.txt
@@ -40,10 +40,12 @@ address should be. The 'p' modifier can be specified multiple times:
40 0 - SAMPLE_IP can have arbitrary skid 40 0 - SAMPLE_IP can have arbitrary skid
41 1 - SAMPLE_IP must have constant skid 41 1 - SAMPLE_IP must have constant skid
42 2 - SAMPLE_IP requested to have 0 skid 42 2 - SAMPLE_IP requested to have 0 skid
43 3 - SAMPLE_IP must have 0 skid 43 3 - SAMPLE_IP must have 0 skid, or uses randomization to avoid
44 sample shadowing effects.
44 45
45For Intel systems precise event sampling is implemented with PEBS 46For Intel systems precise event sampling is implemented with PEBS
46which supports up to precise-level 2. 47which supports up to precise-level 2, and precise level 3 for
48some special cases
47 49
48On AMD systems it is implemented using IBS (up to precise-level 2). 50On AMD systems it is implemented using IBS (up to precise-level 2).
49The precise modifier works with event types 0x76 (cpu-cycles, CPU 51The precise modifier works with event types 0x76 (cpu-cycles, CPU