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diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt
index cefdf430d1b4..00fbfb6d7f14 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt
@@ -117,6 +117,21 @@ OPTIONS
         By default, every sort keys not specified in -F will be appended
         automatically.
 
+        If --mem-mode option is used, following sort keys are also available
+        (incompatible with --branch-stack):
+        symbol_daddr, dso_daddr, locked, tlb, mem, snoop.
+
+        - symbol_daddr: name of data symbol being executed on at the time of sample
+        - dso_daddr: name of library or module containing the data being executed
+        on at the time of sample
+        - locked: whether the bus was locked at the time of sample
+        - tlb: type of tlb access for the data at the time of sample
+        - mem: type of memory access for the data at the time of sample
+        - snoop: type of snoop (if any) for the data at the time of sample
+
+        And default sort keys are changed to local_weight, mem, sym, dso,
+        symbol_daddr, dso_daddr, snoop, tlb, locked, see '--mem-mode'.
+
 -p::
 --parent=<regex>::
         A regex filter to identify parent. The parent is a caller of this
@@ -260,6 +275,13 @@ OPTIONS
         Demangle symbol names to human readable form. It's enabled by default,
         disable with --no-demangle.
 
+--mem-mode::
+        Use the data addresses of samples in addition to instruction addresses
+        to build the histograms.  To generate meaningful output, the perf.data
+        file must have been obtained using perf record -d -W and using a
+        special event -e cpu/mem-loads/ or -e cpu/mem-stores/. See
+        'perf mem' for simpler access.
+
 --percent-limit::
         Do not show entries which have an overhead under that percent.
         (Default: 0).