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authorThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>2009-06-06 08:56:33 -0400
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-06-06 09:23:49 -0400
commit386b05e3a2f3c5b0a9c5575060421cca0911648a (patch)
treeb45cbf51442943e24ddca84f19d53a83ba49cf4a /Documentation
parent8faf3b547593bf6ea10df631e73204975273c4e0 (diff)
perf_counter tools: Add help for perf list
Also update other areas of the help texts. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/perf_counter/Documentation/perf-list.txt25
-rw-r--r--Documentation/perf_counter/Documentation/perf-record.txt26
-rw-r--r--Documentation/perf_counter/Documentation/perf-stat.txt26
-rw-r--r--Documentation/perf_counter/Documentation/perf-top.txt26
-rw-r--r--Documentation/perf_counter/Documentation/perf.txt3
5 files changed, 42 insertions, 64 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/perf_counter/Documentation/perf-list.txt b/Documentation/perf_counter/Documentation/perf-list.txt
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..aa55a71184fc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/perf_counter/Documentation/perf-list.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
1perf-list(1)
2==============
3
4NAME
5----
6perf-list - List all symbolic event types
7
8SYNOPSIS
9--------
10[verse]
11'perf list
12
13DESCRIPTION
14-----------
15This command displays the symbolic event types which can be selected in the
16various perf commands with the -e option.
17
18OPTIONS
19-------
20None
21
22SEE ALSO
23--------
24linkperf:perf-stat[1], linkperf:perf-top[1],
25linkperf:perf-record[1]
diff --git a/Documentation/perf_counter/Documentation/perf-record.txt b/Documentation/perf_counter/Documentation/perf-record.txt
index 4d3416fc7644..1dbc1eeb4c01 100644
--- a/Documentation/perf_counter/Documentation/perf-record.txt
+++ b/Documentation/perf_counter/Documentation/perf-record.txt
@@ -26,26 +26,10 @@ OPTIONS
26 26
27-e:: 27-e::
28--event=:: 28--event=::
29 0:0: cpu-cycles 29 Select the PMU event. Selection can be a symbolic event name
30 0:0: cycles 30 (use 'perf list' to list all events) or a raw PMU
31 0:1: instructions 31 event (eventsel+umask) in the form of rNNN where NNN is a
32 0:2: cache-references 32 hexadecimal event descriptor.
33 0:3: cache-misses
34 0:4: branch-instructions
35 0:4: branches
36 0:5: branch-misses
37 0:6: bus-cycles
38 1:0: cpu-clock
39 1:1: task-clock
40 1:2: page-faults
41 1:2: faults
42 1:5: minor-faults
43 1:6: major-faults
44 1:3: context-switches
45 1:3: cs
46 1:4: cpu-migrations
47 1:4: migrations
48 rNNN: raw PMU events (eventsel+umask)
49 33
50-a:: 34-a::
51 system-wide collection 35 system-wide collection
@@ -55,4 +39,4 @@ OPTIONS
55 39
56SEE ALSO 40SEE ALSO
57-------- 41--------
58linkperf:perf-stat[1] 42linkperf:perf-stat[1], linkperf:perf-list[1]
diff --git a/Documentation/perf_counter/Documentation/perf-stat.txt b/Documentation/perf_counter/Documentation/perf-stat.txt
index a340e7be83dd..5d95784cce4d 100644
--- a/Documentation/perf_counter/Documentation/perf-stat.txt
+++ b/Documentation/perf_counter/Documentation/perf-stat.txt
@@ -25,26 +25,10 @@ OPTIONS
25 25
26-e:: 26-e::
27--event=:: 27--event=::
28 0:0: cpu-cycles 28 Select the PMU event. Selection can be a symbolic event name
29 0:0: cycles 29 (use 'perf list' to list all events) or a raw PMU
30 0:1: instructions 30 event (eventsel+umask) in the form of rNNN where NNN is a
31 0:2: cache-references 31 hexadecimal event descriptor.
32 0:3: cache-misses
33 0:4: branch-instructions
34 0:4: branches
35 0:5: branch-misses
36 0:6: bus-cycles
37 1:0: cpu-clock
38 1:1: task-clock
39 1:2: page-faults
40 1:2: faults
41 1:5: minor-faults
42 1:6: major-faults
43 1:3: context-switches
44 1:3: cs
45 1:4: cpu-migrations
46 1:4: migrations
47 rNNN: raw PMU events (eventsel+umask)
48 32
49-i:: 33-i::
50--inherit:: 34--inherit::
@@ -79,4 +63,4 @@ $ perf stat -- make -j
79 63
80SEE ALSO 64SEE ALSO
81-------- 65--------
82linkperf:perf-tops[1] 66linkperf:perf-top[1], linkperf:perf-list[1]
diff --git a/Documentation/perf_counter/Documentation/perf-top.txt b/Documentation/perf_counter/Documentation/perf-top.txt
index 15251e40e4f8..c8eb7cfffcd5 100644
--- a/Documentation/perf_counter/Documentation/perf-top.txt
+++ b/Documentation/perf_counter/Documentation/perf-top.txt
@@ -23,26 +23,10 @@ OPTIONS
23 23
24-e:: 24-e::
25--event=:: 25--event=::
26 0:0: cpu-cycles 26 Select the PMU event. Selection can be a symbolic event name
27 0:0: cycles 27 (use 'perf list' to list all events) or a raw PMU
28 0:1: instructions 28 event (eventsel+umask) in the form of rNNN where NNN is a
29 0:2: cache-references 29 hexadecimal event descriptor.
30 0:3: cache-misses
31 0:4: branch-instructions
32 0:4: branches
33 0:5: branch-misses
34 0:6: bus-cycles
35 1:0: cpu-clock
36 1:1: task-clock
37 1:2: page-faults
38 1:2: faults
39 1:5: minor-faults
40 1:6: major-faults
41 1:3: context-switches
42 1:3: cs
43 1:4: cpu-migrations
44 1:4: migrations
45 rNNN: raw PMU events (eventsel+umask)
46 30
47-a:: 31-a::
48 system-wide collection 32 system-wide collection
@@ -52,4 +36,4 @@ OPTIONS
52 36
53SEE ALSO 37SEE ALSO
54-------- 38--------
55linkperf:perf-stat[1] 39linkperf:perf-stat[1], linkperf:perf-list[1]
diff --git a/Documentation/perf_counter/Documentation/perf.txt b/Documentation/perf_counter/Documentation/perf.txt
index e3d8b3832c6f..69c832557199 100644
--- a/Documentation/perf_counter/Documentation/perf.txt
+++ b/Documentation/perf_counter/Documentation/perf.txt
@@ -20,4 +20,5 @@ and software features (software counters, tracepoints) as well.
20SEE ALSO 20SEE ALSO
21-------- 21--------
22linkperf:perf-stat[1], linkperf:perf-top[1], 22linkperf:perf-stat[1], linkperf:perf-top[1],
23linkperf:perf-record[1], linkperf:perf-report[1] 23linkperf:perf-record[1], linkperf:perf-report[1],
24linkperf:perf-list[1]