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| author | Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> | 2016-10-13 10:57:13 -0700 |
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| committer | Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> | 2016-10-24 11:07:35 -0300 |
| commit | 84ee74affccc93b02dee5a986dfe214f4eaa08d3 (patch) | |
| tree | 757f985d70e059d879814c65a665391cc4aeeca0 /tools/perf/Documentation | |
| parent | 0c2aff4c78e83f3185bf5affa434618815ab77bf (diff) | |
perf record: Improve documentation of event parameters
- Some editing (params -> parameters)
- Point to the now more complete list of parameters in the perf list
manpage.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1476381433-22959-1-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/perf/Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt | 9 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt index 92335193dc33..27fc3617c6a4 100644 --- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt +++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt @@ -45,9 +45,9 @@ OPTIONS param1 and param2 are defined as formats for the PMU in: /sys/bus/event_source/devices/<pmu>/format/* - There are also some params which are not defined in .../<pmu>/format/*. + There are also some parameters which are not defined in .../<pmu>/format/*. These params can be used to overload default config values per event. - Here is a list of the params. + Here are some common parameters: - 'period': Set event sampling period - 'freq': Set event sampling frequency - 'time': Disable/enable time stamping. Acceptable values are 1 for @@ -57,8 +57,11 @@ OPTIONS FP mode, "dwarf" for DWARF mode, "lbr" for LBR mode and "no" for disable callgraph. - 'stack-size': user stack size for dwarf mode + + See the linkperf:perf-list[1] man page for more parameters. + Note: If user explicitly sets options which conflict with the params, - the value set by the params will be overridden. + the value set by the parameters will be overridden. Also not defined in .../<pmu>/format/* are PMU driver specific configuration parameters. Any configuration parameter preceded by |