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Date:	Sun, 24 Oct 2010 09:42:58 GMT
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Subject: [tip:perf/core] perf tools: Document event modifiers

Commit-ID:  ffec516976f64b4e3e59ba1bb8a5020008cc678a
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/ffec516976f64b4e3e59ba1bb8a5020008cc678a
Author:     Sonny Rao <sonnyrao@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
AuthorDate: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 20:51:00 -0500
Committer:  Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>
CommitDate: Sat, 23 Oct 2010 15:31:20 -0200

perf tools: Document event modifiers

Existing documentation doesn't discuss event modifiers, so add a description of
what's currently possible to the documentation of perf-list.

Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@....com>
LKML-Reference: <1287107460-12112-1-git-send-email-sonnyrao@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Sonny Rao <sonnyrao@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>
---
 tools/perf/Documentation/perf-list.txt |   17 +++++++++++++++++
 1 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-list.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-list.txt
index 43e3dd2..399751b 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-list.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-list.txt
@@ -15,6 +15,23 @@ DESCRIPTION
 This command displays the symbolic event types which can be selected in the
 various perf commands with the -e option.
 
+EVENT MODIFIERS
+---------------
+
+Events can optionally have a modifer by appending a colon and one or
+more modifiers.  Modifiers allow the user to restrict when events are
+counted with 'u' for user-space, 'k' for kernel, 'h' for hypervisor.
+
+The 'p' modifier can be used for specifying how precise the instruction
+address should be. The 'p' modifier is currently only implemented for
+Intel PEBS and can be specified multiple times:
+  0 - SAMPLE_IP can have arbitrary skid
+  1 - SAMPLE_IP must have constant skid
+  2 - SAMPLE_IP requested to have 0 skid
+  3 - SAMPLE_IP must have 0 skid
+
+The PEBS implementation now supports up to 2.
+
 RAW HARDWARE EVENT DESCRIPTOR
 -----------------------------
 Even when an event is not available in a symbolic form within perf right now,
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