linux-kernel - [PATCH 4/7] perf report: Add mem-mode documentation to report command

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Message-Id: <1400526833-141779-5-git-send-email-dzickus@redhat.com>
Date:	Mon, 19 May 2014 15:13:50 -0400
From:	Don Zickus <dzickus@...hat.com>
To:	jolsa@...hat.com
Cc:	acme@...stprotocols.net, peterz@...radead.org,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, namhyung@...il.com,
	eranian@...gle.com, Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	Don Zickus <dzickus@...hat.com>
Subject: [PATCH 4/7] perf report: Add mem-mode documentation to report command

Add mem-mode sorting types and mem-mode itself to perf-report documentation.

Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@...hat.com>
---
 tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+)

diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt
index 09af662..bea1c83 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt
@@ -98,6 +98,21 @@ OPTIONS
 	And default sort keys are changed to comm, dso_from, symbol_from, dso_to
 	and symbol_to, see '--branch-stack'.
 
+	If --mem-mode option is used, following sort keys are also available
+	(incompatible with --branch-stack):
+	symbol_daddr, dso_daddr, locked, tlb, mem, snoop.
+
+	- symbol_daddr: name of data symbol being executed on at the time of sample
+	- dso_daddr: name of library or module containing the data being executed
+	on at the time of sample
+	- locked: whether the bus was locked at the time of sample
+	- tlb: type of tlb access for the data at the time of sample
+	- mem: type of memory access for the data at the time of sample
+	- snoop: type of snoop (if any) for the data at the time of sample
+
+	And default sort keys are changed to local_weight, mem, sym, dso,
+	symbol_daddr, dso_daddr, snoop, tlb, locked, see '--mem-mode'.
+
 -p::
 --parent=<regex>::
         A regex filter to identify parent. The parent is a caller of this
@@ -236,6 +251,13 @@ OPTIONS
 	Demangle symbol names to human readable form. It's enabled by default,
 	disable with --no-demangle.
 
+--mem-mode::
+	Use the data addresses of samples in addition to instruction addresses
+	to build the histograms.  To generate meaningful output, the perf.data
+	file must have been obtained using perf record -d -W and using a 
+	special event -e cpu/mem-loads/ or -e cpu/mem-stores/. See
+	'perf mem' for simpler access.
+
 --percent-limit::
 	Do not show entries which have an overhead under that percent.
 	(Default: 0).
-- 
1.7.11.7

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