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authorDavid Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>2013-08-07 21:56:39 -0400
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2013-08-12 09:31:05 -0400
commit9a6d316692d59c4400a66b01db675abac432b4b2 (patch)
tree221c828389dd9a602ce151a5df985b56b70fd5a8 /tools
parent70f7b4a7f3f9a46807b644aa0fcfa7daa0d553e4 (diff)
perf kvm: Update documentation with live command
Update perf-kvm documentation with new live subcommand. Add -p/--pid option for perf-kvm-stat-report as well. Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Requested-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Runzhen Wang <runzhen@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1375926999-75129-2-git-send-email-dsahern@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools')
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/Documentation/perf-kvm.txt46
1 files changed, 44 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-kvm.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-kvm.txt
index 326f2cb333cb..ac84db2d2334 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-kvm.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-kvm.txt
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ SYNOPSIS
13 {top|record|report|diff|buildid-list} 13 {top|record|report|diff|buildid-list}
14'perf kvm' [--host] [--guest] [--guestkallsyms=<path> --guestmodules=<path> 14'perf kvm' [--host] [--guest] [--guestkallsyms=<path> --guestmodules=<path>
15 | --guestvmlinux=<path>] {top|record|report|diff|buildid-list|stat} 15 | --guestvmlinux=<path>] {top|record|report|diff|buildid-list|stat}
16'perf kvm stat [record|report|live] [<options>]
16 17
17DESCRIPTION 18DESCRIPTION
18----------- 19-----------
@@ -50,6 +51,10 @@ There are a couple of variants of perf kvm:
50 'perf kvm stat report' reports statistical data which includes events 51 'perf kvm stat report' reports statistical data which includes events
51 handled time, samples, and so on. 52 handled time, samples, and so on.
52 53
54 'perf kvm stat live' reports statistical data in a live mode (similar to
55 record + report but with statistical data updated live at a given display
56 rate).
57
53OPTIONS 58OPTIONS
54------- 59-------
55-i:: 60-i::
@@ -85,13 +90,50 @@ STAT REPORT OPTIONS
85--vcpu=<value>:: 90--vcpu=<value>::
86 analyze events which occures on this vcpu. (default: all vcpus) 91 analyze events which occures on this vcpu. (default: all vcpus)
87 92
88--events=<value>:: 93--event=<value>::
89 events to be analyzed. Possible values: vmexit, mmio, ioport. 94 event to be analyzed. Possible values: vmexit, mmio, ioport.
90 (default: vmexit) 95 (default: vmexit)
91-k:: 96-k::
92--key=<value>:: 97--key=<value>::
93 Sorting key. Possible values: sample (default, sort by samples 98 Sorting key. Possible values: sample (default, sort by samples
94 number), time (sort by average time). 99 number), time (sort by average time).
100-p::
101--pid=::
102 Analyze events only for given process ID(s) (comma separated list).
103
104STAT LIVE OPTIONS
105-----------------
106-d::
107--display::
108 Time in seconds between display updates
109
110-m::
111--mmap-pages=::
112 Number of mmap data pages. Must be a power of two.
113
114-a::
115--all-cpus::
116 System-wide collection from all CPUs.
117
118-p::
119--pid=::
120 Analyze events only for given process ID(s) (comma separated list).
121
122--vcpu=<value>::
123 analyze events which occures on this vcpu. (default: all vcpus)
124
125
126--event=<value>::
127 event to be analyzed. Possible values: vmexit, mmio, ioport.
128 (default: vmexit)
129
130-k::
131--key=<value>::
132 Sorting key. Possible values: sample (default, sort by samples
133 number), time (sort by average time).
134
135--duration=<value>::
136 Show events other than HLT that take longer than duration usecs.
95 137
96SEE ALSO 138SEE ALSO
97-------- 139--------