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authorCody P Schafer2015-01-08 02:13:53 +0100
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo2015-01-21 17:24:33 +0100
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perf tools: Document parameterized and symbolic events
Signed-off-by: Cody P Schafer <cody@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Cody P Schafer <dev@codyps.com> Cc: Haren Myneni <hbabu@us.ibm.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1420679633-28856-5-git-send-email-sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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@@ -25,10 +25,22 @@ OPTIONS
-e::
--event=::
- Select the PMU event. Selection can be a symbolic event name
- (use 'perf list' to list all events) or a raw PMU
- event (eventsel+umask) in the form of rNNN where NNN is a
- hexadecimal event descriptor.
+ Select the PMU event. Selection can be:
+
+ - a symbolic event name (use 'perf list' to list all events)
+
+ - a raw PMU event (eventsel+umask) in the form of rNNN where NNN is a
+ hexadecimal event descriptor.
+
+ - a symbolically formed event like 'pmu/param1=0x3,param2/' where
+ param1 and param2 are defined as formats for the PMU in
+ /sys/bus/event_sources/devices/<pmu>/format/*
+
+ - a symbolically formed event like 'pmu/config=M,config1=N,config2=K/'
+ where M, N, K are numbers (in decimal, hex, octal format).
+ Acceptable values for each of 'config', 'config1' and 'config2'
+ parameters are defined by corresponding entries in
+ /sys/bus/event_sources/devices/<pmu>/format/*
-i::
--no-inherit::