From: Sonny Rao <sonnyrao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Sonny Rao <sonnyrao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>,
Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Subject: [PATCH] perf, document event modifiers
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 20:51:00 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1287107460-12112-1-git-send-email-sonnyrao@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
Existing documentation doesn't discuss event modifiers,
so add a description of what's currently possible to
the documentation of perf-list.
Signed-off-by: Sonny Rao <sonnyrao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
tools/perf/Documentation/perf-list.txt | 17 +++++++++++++++++
1 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-list.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-list.txt
index 43e3dd2..399751b 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-list.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-list.txt
@@ -15,6 +15,23 @@ DESCRIPTION
This command displays the symbolic event types which can be selected in the
various perf commands with the -e option.
+EVENT MODIFIERS
+---------------
+
+Events can optionally have a modifer by appending a colon and one or
+more modifiers. Modifiers allow the user to restrict when events are
+counted with 'u' for user-space, 'k' for kernel, 'h' for hypervisor.
+
+The 'p' modifier can be used for specifying how precise the instruction
+address should be. The 'p' modifier is currently only implemented for
+Intel PEBS and can be specified multiple times:
+ 0 - SAMPLE_IP can have arbitrary skid
+ 1 - SAMPLE_IP must have constant skid
+ 2 - SAMPLE_IP requested to have 0 skid
+ 3 - SAMPLE_IP must have 0 skid
+
+The PEBS implementation now supports up to 2.
+
RAW HARDWARE EVENT DESCRIPTOR
-----------------------------
Even when an event is not available in a symbolic form within perf right now,
--
1.5.6.5
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