linux/tools/perf/Documentation
Andi Kleen cf99ad1424 perf record: Support weak groups
Implement a weak group fallback for 'perf record', similar to the
existing 'perf stat' support.  This allows to use groups that might be
longer than the available counters without failing.

Before:

  $ perf record  -e '{cycles,cache-misses,cache-references,cpu_clk_unhalted.thread,cycles,cycles,cycles}' -a sleep 1
  Error:
  The sys_perf_event_open() syscall returned with 22 (Invalid argument) for event (cycles).
  /bin/dmesg | grep -i perf may provide additional information.

After:

  $ ./perf record  -e '{cycles,cache-misses,cache-references,cpu_clk_unhalted.thread,cycles,cycles,cycles}:W' -a sleep 1
  WARNING: No sample_id_all support, falling back to unordered processing
  [ perf record: Woken up 3 times to write data ]
  [ perf record: Captured and wrote 8.136 MB perf.data (134069 samples) ]

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181001195927.14211-2-andi@firstfloor.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2018-11-05 14:37:10 -03:00
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android.txt perf tools: Update android build documentation 2016-07-04 20:27:27 -03:00
asciidoc.conf
asciidoctor-extensions.rb perf Documentation: Support for asciidoctor 2018-04-26 13:47:10 -03:00
build-xed.txt perf script: Add --insn-trace for instruction decoding 2018-10-24 15:29:50 -03:00
Build.txt perf build: Add build documentation 2015-02-12 17:53:00 -03:00
callchain-overhead-calculation.txt perf tools: Document --children option in more detail 2015-04-29 10:38:06 -03:00
examples.txt perf record: Remove -f/--force option 2013-07-08 17:37:25 -03:00
intel-bts.txt perf tools: Add Intel BTS support 2015-08-21 11:34:10 -03:00
intel-pt.txt perf scripts python: call-graph-from-sql.py: Rename to exported-sql-viewer.py 2018-10-23 14:26:44 -03:00
itrace.txt perf script: Make itrace script default to all calls 2018-10-24 15:29:54 -03:00
jit-interface.txt
jitdump-specification.txt perf jit: Add jitdump format specification document 2016-10-24 11:07:41 -03:00
Makefile perf Documentation: Fix out-of-tree asciidoctor man page generation 2018-09-18 10:17:16 -03:00
manpage-1.72.xsl
manpage-base.xsl
manpage-bold-literal.xsl
manpage-normal.xsl
manpage-suppress-sp.xsl
perf-annotate.txt perf annotate: Add --percent-type option 2018-08-08 15:55:53 -03:00
perf-archive.txt perf archive: Remove duplicated 'runs' in man page 2013-12-09 15:21:45 -03:00
perf-bench.txt perf bench mem: Rename 'routine' to 'function' 2015-10-19 16:10:25 -03:00
perf-buildid-cache.txt perf buildid-cache: Support --purge-all option 2018-04-26 09:30:26 -03:00
perf-buildid-list.txt
perf-c2c.txt perf c2c record: Record physical addresses in samples 2018-03-16 13:52:57 -03:00
perf-config.txt perf annotate: Allow setting the offset level in .perfconfig 2018-04-13 10:00:05 -03:00
perf-data.txt perf tools: Correct title markers for asciidoctor 2018-03-07 10:26:32 -03:00
perf-diff.txt perf diff: Add -q/--quiet option 2017-02-20 11:47:08 -03:00
perf-evlist.txt perf evlist: Document missing --force option 2017-11-16 14:50:07 -03:00
perf-ftrace.txt perf tools: Correct title markers for asciidoctor 2018-03-07 10:26:32 -03:00
perf-help.txt
perf-inject.txt perf inject: Document missing options 2017-11-16 14:50:05 -03:00
perf-kallsyms.txt perf tools: Correct title markers for asciidoctor 2018-03-07 10:26:32 -03:00
perf-kmem.txt perf kmem: Document a missing option & an argument 2018-02-16 14:55:42 -03:00
perf-kvm.txt perf tools: Configurable per thread proc map processing time out 2015-06-19 18:27:13 -03:00
perf-list.txt perf record: Support weak groups 2018-11-05 14:37:10 -03:00
perf-lock.txt perf lock: Document missing options 2017-11-16 14:50:04 -03:00
perf-mem.txt perf mem: Document incorrect and missing options 2018-04-23 11:59:18 -03:00
perf-probe.txt perf probe: Support escaped character in parser 2017-12-27 12:15:55 -03:00
perf-record.txt perf, tools: Use correct articles in comments 2018-07-16 00:21:03 +02:00
perf-report.txt perf report: Add --percent-type option 2018-08-08 15:55:54 -03:00
perf-sched.txt perf sched: Fix documentation for timehist 2018-04-12 10:33:36 -03:00
perf-script-perl.txt perf tools: Correct title markers for asciidoctor 2018-03-07 10:26:32 -03:00
perf-script-python.txt perf script python: Add dict fields introduction to Documentation 2018-06-06 15:40:10 -03:00
perf-script.txt perf script: Implement --graph-function 2018-10-24 15:29:55 -03:00
perf-stat.txt perf stat: Add --interval-clear option 2018-06-07 15:53:36 -03:00
perf-test.txt perf test: Add -F/--dont-fork option 2016-06-30 18:27:45 -03:00
perf-timechart.txt perf timechart: Document missing --force option 2017-11-16 14:50:06 -03:00
perf-top.txt perf top: Do not use overwrite mode by default 2018-10-31 09:57:31 -03:00
perf-trace.txt perf trace: Introduce per-event maximum number of events property 2018-10-22 14:27:12 -03:00
perf-version.txt perf version: Add man page 2018-04-02 13:52:23 -03:00
perf.data-file-format.txt perf tools: Fix perf.data format description of NRCPUS header 2018-05-30 15:40:26 -03:00
perf.txt perf tools: Handle -h and -v options 2015-10-05 16:36:18 -03:00
perfconfig.example perf config: Show default report configuration in example and docs 2016-09-01 09:44:13 -03:00
tips.txt perf c2c: Add a tip about cacheline events 2017-12-05 15:43:55 -03:00