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| author | Taeung Song <treeze.taeung@gmail.com> | 2016-02-04 18:25:08 +0900 |
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| committer | Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> | 2016-02-04 11:44:25 -0300 |
| commit | 806cb95bb6cb25105b37d971d9916105898cb6fe (patch) | |
| tree | 890327c9a40d1e625d042084814691d0e7da35a3 /tools | |
| parent | 56c94dc56f9e4c1c09fbe26ad65715caa2259438 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-806cb95bb6cb25105b37d971d9916105898cb6fe.tar.gz lwn-806cb95bb6cb25105b37d971d9916105898cb6fe.zip | |
perf config: Document variables for 'report' section in man page
Explain 'report' section's variables:
'percent-limit', 'queue-size' and 'children'.
Signed-off-by: Taeung Song <treeze.taeung@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1454577913-16401-4-git-send-email-treeze.taeung@gmail.com
[ Fix some grammar issues, add some more info ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools')
| -rw-r--r-- | tools/perf/Documentation/perf-config.txt | 36 |
1 files changed, 36 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-config.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-config.txt index 42310ae7e636..f38f46f67d74 100644 --- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-config.txt +++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-config.txt @@ -369,6 +369,42 @@ call-graph.*:: This is a maximum number of lines of callchain printed for a single histogram entry. Default is 0 which means no limitation. +report.*:: + report.percent-limit:: + This one is mostly the same as call-graph.threshold but works for + histogram entries. Entries having an overhead lower than this + percentage will not be printed. Default is '0'. If percent-limit + is '10', only entries which have more than 10% of overhead will be + printed. + + report.queue-size:: + This option sets up the maximum allocation size of the internal + event queue for ordering events. Default is 0, meaning no limit. + + report.children:: + 'Children' means functions called from another function. + If this option is true, 'perf report' cumulates callchains of children + and show (accumulated) total overhead as well as 'Self' overhead. + Please refer to the 'perf report' manual. The default is 'true'. + + report.group:: + This option is to show event group information together. + Example output with this turned on, notice that there is one column + per event in the group, ref-cycles and cycles: + + # group: {ref-cycles,cycles} + # ======== + # + # Samples: 7K of event 'anon group { ref-cycles, cycles }' + # Event count (approx.): 6876107743 + # + # Overhead Command Shared Object Symbol + # ................ ....... ................. ................... + # + 99.84% 99.76% noploop noploop [.] main + 0.07% 0.00% noploop ld-2.15.so [.] strcmp + 0.03% 0.00% noploop [kernel.kallsyms] [k] timerqueue_del + SEE ALSO -------- linkperf:perf[1] |