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authorThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>2009-06-06 14:56:33 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-06-06 15:23:49 +0200
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perf_counter tools: Add help for perf list
Also update other areas of the help texts. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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+++ b/Documentation/perf_counter/Documentation/perf-stat.txt
@@ -25,26 +25,10 @@ OPTIONS
-e::
--event=::
- 0:0: cpu-cycles
- 0:0: cycles
- 0:1: instructions
- 0:2: cache-references
- 0:3: cache-misses
- 0:4: branch-instructions
- 0:4: branches
- 0:5: branch-misses
- 0:6: bus-cycles
- 1:0: cpu-clock
- 1:1: task-clock
- 1:2: page-faults
- 1:2: faults
- 1:5: minor-faults
- 1:6: major-faults
- 1:3: context-switches
- 1:3: cs
- 1:4: cpu-migrations
- 1:4: migrations
- rNNN: raw PMU events (eventsel+umask)
+ 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.
-i::
--inherit::
@@ -79,4 +63,4 @@ $ perf stat -- make -j
SEE ALSO
--------
-linkperf:perf-tops[1]
+linkperf:perf-top[1], linkperf:perf-list[1]