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| -rw-r--r-- | tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | tools/perf/Documentation/perf-stat.txt | 4 |
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diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt index e630a7d2c348..e4eee57ad229 100644 --- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt +++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt @@ -33,6 +33,10 @@ OPTIONS - a raw PMU event (eventsel+umask) in the form of rNNN where NNN is a hexadecimal event descriptor. + - a symbolic or raw PMU event followed by an optional colon + and a list of event modifiers, e.g., cpu-cycles:p. See the + linkperf:perf-list[1] man page for details on event modifiers. + - a symbolically formed PMU event like 'pmu/param1=0x3,param2/' where 'param1', 'param2', etc are defined as formats for the PMU in /sys/bus/event_sources/devices/<pmu>/format/*. diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-stat.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-stat.txt index 90c3558c2c12..ee7fe04fc4b6 100644 --- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-stat.txt +++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-stat.txt @@ -32,6 +32,10 @@ OPTIONS - a raw PMU event (eventsel+umask) in the form of rNNN where NNN is a hexadecimal event descriptor. + - a symbolic or raw PMU event followed by an optional colon + and a list of event modifiers, e.g., cpu-cycles:p. See the + linkperf:perf-list[1] man page for details on event modifiers. + - 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/* |