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authorNamhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>2012-01-29 03:55:56 -0500
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2012-01-30 15:30:48 -0500
commitd1eec3ecaef083affaf3210246b01b6e80d3a44e (patch)
tree7f8f6559ad9fe3fb872bbd7f61c8361b10621ce0 /tools/perf/Documentation/perf-lock.txt
parent008953dc6a3164b7ec2be2684a8fad1e636d5648 (diff)
perf lock: Document lock info subcommand
The commit 26242d859c9be ("perf lock: Add "info" subcommand for dumping misc information") added the subcommand but missed documentation. Add it. Also update stale 'trace' subcommand to 'script'. Cc: Hitoshi Mitake <mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1327827356-8786-5-git-send-email-namhyung@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-lock.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-lock.txt
index d6b2a4f2108b..c7f5f55634ac 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-lock.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-lock.txt
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ perf-lock - Analyze lock events
8SYNOPSIS 8SYNOPSIS
9-------- 9--------
10[verse] 10[verse]
11'perf lock' {record|report|trace} 11'perf lock' {record|report|script|info}
12 12
13DESCRIPTION 13DESCRIPTION
14----------- 14-----------
@@ -20,10 +20,13 @@ and statistics with this 'perf lock' command.
20 produces the file "perf.data" which contains tracing 20 produces the file "perf.data" which contains tracing
21 results of lock events. 21 results of lock events.
22 22
23 'perf lock trace' shows raw lock events.
24
25 'perf lock report' reports statistical data. 23 'perf lock report' reports statistical data.
26 24
25 'perf lock script' shows raw lock events.
26
27 'perf lock info' shows metadata like threads or addresses
28 of lock instances.
29
27COMMON OPTIONS 30COMMON OPTIONS
28-------------- 31--------------
29 32
@@ -47,6 +50,17 @@ REPORT OPTIONS
47 Sorting key. Possible values: acquired (default), contended, 50 Sorting key. Possible values: acquired (default), contended,
48 wait_total, wait_max, wait_min. 51 wait_total, wait_max, wait_min.
49 52
53INFO OPTIONS
54------------
55
56-t::
57--threads::
58 dump thread list in perf.data
59
60-m::
61--map::
62 dump map of lock instances (address:name table)
63
50SEE ALSO 64SEE ALSO
51-------- 65--------
52linkperf:perf[1] 66linkperf:perf[1]