linux/tools/perf/Documentation
Frederic Weisbecker 1b290d670f perf tools: Add support for breakpoint events in perf tools
Add the breakpoint events support with this new sysnopsis:

  mem:addr[:access]

Where addr is a raw addr value in the kernel and access can be
either [r][w][x]

Example to profile tasklist_lock:

	$ grep tasklist_lock /proc/kallsyms
	ffffffff8189c000 D tasklist_lock

	$ perf record -e mem:0xffffffff8189c000:rw -a -f -c 1
	$ perf report

	# Samples: 62
	#
	# Overhead          Command  Shared Object  Symbol
	# ........  ...............  .............  ......
	#
	    29.03%          swapper  [kernel]       [k] _raw_read_trylock
	    29.03%          swapper  [kernel]       [k] _raw_read_unlock
	    19.35%             init  [kernel]       [k] _raw_read_trylock
	    19.35%             init  [kernel]       [k] _raw_read_unlock
	     1.61%         events/0  [kernel]       [k] _raw_read_trylock
	     1.61%         events/0  [kernel]       [k] _raw_read_unlock

Coming soon:

 - Support for symbols in the event definition.

 - Default period to 1 for breakpoint events because these are
   not high frequency events. The same thing is needed for trace
   events.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <1258987355-8751-4-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2009-11-23 18:18:31 +01:00
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asciidoc.conf
examples.txt perf: Rename perf-examples.txt to examples.txt 2009-08-17 10:43:42 +02:00
Makefile perf tools: Make 'make html' work 2009-08-18 18:43:13 +02:00
manpage-1.72.xsl
manpage-base.xsl
manpage-bold-literal.xsl
manpage-normal.xsl
manpage-suppress-sp.xsl
perf-annotate.txt
perf-bench.txt perf bench: Add new document about perf-bench 2009-11-10 14:14:36 +01:00
perf-buildid-list.txt perf buildid-list: Always show the DSO name 2009-11-17 07:19:54 +01:00
perf-help.txt
perf-list.txt
perf-probe.txt perf/probes: Update Documentation/perf-probe.txt 2009-11-04 13:02:46 +01:00
perf-record.txt perf tools: Add support for breakpoint events in perf tools 2009-11-23 18:18:31 +01:00
perf-report.txt perf tools: Fix syntax in documentation 2009-11-09 12:58:04 +01:00
perf-sched.txt perf sched: Add 'perf sched trace', improve documentation 2009-09-13 17:55:23 +02:00
perf-stat.txt perf stat: Fix tool option consistency: rename -S/--scale to -c/--scale 2009-08-09 12:54:37 +02:00
perf-timechart.txt perf timechart: Add a process filter 2009-10-20 07:55:50 +02:00
perf-top.txt perf top: Update man page 2009-08-09 12:54:32 +02:00
perf-trace.txt perf: Add 'perf sched' tool 2009-09-13 10:22:36 +02:00
perf.txt