linux/tools/perf/Documentation
Alexey Budankov f92da71280 perf record: Enable arbitrary event names thru name= modifier
Enable complex event names containing [.:=,] symbols to be encoded into Perf
trace using name= modifier e.g. like this:

  perf record -e cpu/name=\'OFFCORE_RESPONSE:request=DEMAND_RFO:response=L3_HIT.SNOOP_HITM\',\
		  period=0x3567e0,event=0x3c,cmask=0x1/Duk ./futex

Below is how it looks like in the report output. Please note explicit escaped
quoting at cmdline string in the header so that thestring can be directly reused
for another collection in shell:

perf report --header

  # ========
  ...
  # cmdline : /root/abudanko/kernel/tip/tools/perf/perf record -v -e cpu/name=\'OFFCORE_RESPONSE:request=DEMAND_RFO:response=L3_HIT.SNOOP_HITM\',period=0x3567e0,event=0x3c,cmask=0x1/Duk ./futex
  # event : name = OFFCORE_RESPONSE:request=DEMAND_RFO:response=L3_HIT.SNOOP_HITM, , type = 4, size = 112, config = 0x100003c, { sample_period, sample_freq } = 3500000, sample_type = IP|TID|TIME, disabled = 1, inh
  ...
  # ========
  #
  #
  # Total Lost Samples: 0
  #
  # Samples: 24K of event 'OFFCORE_RESPONSE:request=DEMAND_RFO:response=L3_HIT.SNOOP_HITM'
  # Event count (approx.): 86492000000
  #
  # Overhead  Command  Shared Object     Symbol
  # ........  .......  ................  ..............................................
  #
      14.75%  futex    [kernel.vmlinux]  [k] __entry_trampoline_start
...

  perf stat -e cpu/name=\'CPU_CLK_UNHALTED.THREAD:cmask=0x1\',period=0x3567e0,event=0x3c,cmask=0x1/Duk ./futex

  10000000 process context switches in 16678890291ns (1667.9ns/ctxsw)

   Performance counter stats for './futex':

      88,095,770,571      CPU_CLK_UNHALTED.THREAD:cmask=0x1

        16.679542407 seconds time elapsed

Signed-off-by: Alexey Budankov <alexey.budankov@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/c194b060-761d-0d50-3b21-bb4ed680002d@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2018-06-06 12:52:04 -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.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 intel-pt: Fix syntax in documentation of config option 2017-09-01 14:45:59 -03:00
itrace.txt perf auxtrace: Add itrace option to output power events 2017-06-27 12:09:58 -03:00
jit-interface.txt perf symbols: Add description of JIT interface 2012-08-13 14:55:02 -03:00
jitdump-specification.txt perf jit: Add jitdump format specification document 2016-10-24 11:07:41 -03:00
Makefile perf Documentation: Support for asciidoctor 2018-04-26 13:47:10 -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: Introduce --ignore-vmlinux command line option 2018-03-21 12:53:42 -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 report: Accept fifos as input file 2011-12-23 17:01:03 -02:00
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: Enable arbitrary event names thru name= modifier 2018-06-06 12:52:04 -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 record: Enable arbitrary event names thru name= modifier 2018-06-06 12:52:04 -03:00
perf-report.txt perf tools: Add a "dso_size" sort order 2018-04-02 07:57:37 -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: Remove dups in documentation examples 2017-06-07 20:36:12 -03:00
perf-script.txt perf script: Extend misc field decoding with switch out event type 2018-04-17 09:47:39 -03:00
perf-stat.txt perf stat: Display length strings of each run for --table option 2018-04-26 09:30:27 -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: Document --ignore-vmlinux 2018-03-19 13:51:52 -03:00
perf-trace.txt perf trace: Show only failing syscalls 2018-04-02 07:57:37 -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