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authorLi Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>2009-11-24 00:27:11 -0500
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-11-24 02:49:51 -0500
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Add Documentation/perf-kmem.txt Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org <linux-mm@kvack.org> LKML-Reference: <4B0B6EAF.80802@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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1perf-kmem(1)
2==============
3
4NAME
5----
6perf-kmem - Tool to trace/measure kernel memory(slab) properties
7
8SYNOPSIS
9--------
10[verse]
11'perf kmem' {record} [<options>]
12
13DESCRIPTION
14-----------
15There's two variants of perf kmem:
16
17 'perf kmem record <command>' to record the kmem events
18 of an arbitrary workload.
19
20 'perf kmem' to report kernel memory statistics.
21
22OPTIONS
23-------
24-i <file>::
25--input=<file>::
26 Select the input file (default: perf.data)
27
28--stat=<caller|alloc>::
29 Select per callsite or per allocation statistics
30
31-s <key[,key2...]>::
32--sort=<key[,key2...]>::
33 Sort the output (default: frag,hit,bytes)
34
35-l <num>::
36--line=<num>::
37 Print n lines only
38
39--raw-ip::
40 Print raw ip instead of symbol
41
42SEE ALSO
43--------
44linkperf:perf-record[1]