From e48a73a312ebf19cc3d72aa74985db25c30757c1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kim Phillips <kim.phillips@amd.com>
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2020 16:58:53 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] perf record/stat: Explicitly call out event modifiers in the
documentation
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 <kim.phillips@amd.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Alexey Budankov <alexey.budankov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Jin Yao <yao.jin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Clarke <pc@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Tony Jones <tonyj@suse.de>
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 <acme@redhat.com>
---
tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt | 4 ++++
tools/perf/Documentation/perf-stat.txt | 4 ++++
2 files changed, 8 insertions(+)
diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt
index 3f72d8e261f3de..bd50cdff08a88b 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 947672fd9c7025..db420dd75e4357 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/*
--
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