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authorOtavio Salvador <otavio@ossystems.com.br>2020-09-07 15:00:56 -0300
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2020-09-07 15:00:56 -0300
commitcd0cf8969db8f72ec2cc94858e11ac13250d1bff (patch)
tree1bbdcdab3bbedcc220d4b6e981acdbe7148b6dd6 /tools/perf
parente176f4c52f8071238edbc93c858a94c3362c8b22 (diff)
parentaf767dc98c5dfecce081e8b111671224e811a38c (diff)
Merge pull request #126 from zandrey/5.4-2.1.x-imx
Update 5.4-2.1.x-imx to v5.4.63 from stable
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/perf')
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt4
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/Documentation/perf-stat.txt4
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt
index c6f9f31b6039..15fd108afbe6 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_source/devices/<pmu>/format/*.
diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-stat.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-stat.txt
index 1948e956656c..936e69f886d7 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-stat.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-stat.txt
@@ -39,6 +39,10 @@ report::
- 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_source/devices/<pmu>/format/*