From patchwork Fri Sep 4 13:30:05 2020 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Greg KH X-Patchwork-Id: 310132 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-10.0 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIMWL_WL_HIGH, DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI, SIGNED_OFF_BY,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,URIBL_BLOCKED,USER_AGENT_GIT autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FFABC43461 for ; Fri, 4 Sep 2020 13:34:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3FFD204FD for ; Fri, 4 Sep 2020 13:34:44 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=default; t=1599226484; bh=Qoayjoiq0uSKgxLGXmLIhulkMjEAiiCj6O1lrgz1Tlc=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:Date:In-Reply-To:References:List-ID:From; b=UqOG+52AP8Dp2c5So1wYgDHGLhc6BvFoI2OaBdagTXyO1ZGbluu+quegXVP8qsHZz 1jHaqa12ElxCda+yflaUZdynii1YfnEuM0FzssFBuLWoreI2baVjUdX88KZSofR5S0 EuUV4oiImHUo+AKGD9Ka50hwrmbnwN//FZOdpijA= Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1730491AbgIDNeZ (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Sep 2020 09:34:25 -0400 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:38082 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1730467AbgIDNeW (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Sep 2020 09:34:22 -0400 Received: from localhost (83-86-74-64.cable.dynamic.v4.ziggo.nl [83.86.74.64]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 0BC5B21655; Fri, 4 Sep 2020 13:31:02 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=default; t=1599226262; bh=Qoayjoiq0uSKgxLGXmLIhulkMjEAiiCj6O1lrgz1Tlc=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:Date:In-Reply-To:References:From; b=ygBMttGZzvyz7hq5c6blWlcm1lwWKR3tVUPr5h+ZkjA82qvuE4LvD1L1QESZit10V SJvC04yOVDN5k2SAmw3dHeryzWnRdtkdrdxKE+Jt5xQC7wt0yR8cVXnUBcZZAlrLJq Tc8G8DQv3xMDX5ELDtYvY1wURQIAikptpBZbJAQg= From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, Kim Phillips , Adrian Hunter , Alexander Shishkin , Alexey Budankov , Ian Rogers , Jin Yao , Jiri Olsa , Mark Rutland , Namhyung Kim , Paul Clarke , Peter Zijlstra , Stephane Eranian , Tony Jones , Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Subject: [PATCH 5.8 06/17] perf record/stat: Explicitly call out event modifiers in the documentation Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2020 15:30:05 +0200 Message-Id: <20200904120258.295056672@linuxfoundation.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.28.0 In-Reply-To: <20200904120257.983551609@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20200904120257.983551609@linuxfoundation.org> User-Agent: quilt/0.66 MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: stable@vger.kernel.org From: Kim Phillips commit e48a73a312ebf19cc3d72aa74985db25c30757c1 upstream. Event modifiers are not mentioned in the perf record or perf stat manpages. Add them to orient new users more effectively by pointing them to the perf list manpage for details. Fixes: 2055fdaf8703 ("perf list: Document precise event sampling for AMD IBS") Signed-off-by: Kim Phillips Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: Alexey Budankov Cc: Ian Rogers Cc: Jin Yao Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Mark Rutland Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Paul Clarke Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Stephane Eranian Cc: Tony Jones Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200901215853.276234-1-kim.phillips@amd.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt | 4 ++++ tools/perf/Documentation/perf-stat.txt | 4 ++++ 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+) --- 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//format/*. --- 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//format/*