Commit ca52babe authored by Andi Kleen's avatar Andi Kleen Committed by Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Add some new tips describing the new options

Signed-off-by: default avatarAndi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: default avatarJiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190311144502.15423-9-andi@firstfloor.orgSigned-off-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
parent 4968ac8f
......@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ To see callchains in a more compact form: perf report -g folded
Show individual samples with: perf script
Limit to show entries above 5% only: perf report --percent-limit 5
Profiling branch (mis)predictions with: perf record -b / perf report
To show assembler sample contexts use perf record -b / perf script -F +brstackinsn --xed
Treat branches as callchains: perf report --branch-history
To count events in every 1000 msec: perf stat -I 1000
Print event counts in CSV format with: perf stat -x,
......@@ -34,3 +35,9 @@ Show current config key-value pairs: perf config --list
Show user configuration overrides: perf config --user --list
To add Node.js USDT(User-Level Statically Defined Tracing): perf buildid-cache --add `which node`
To report cacheline events from previous recording: perf c2c report
To browse sample contexts use perf report --sample 10 and select in context menu
To separate samples by time use perf report --sort time,overhead,sym
To set sample time separation other than 100ms with --sort time use --time-quantum
Add -I to perf report to sample register values visible in perf report context.
To show IPC for sampling periods use perf record -e '{cycles,instructions}:S' and then browse context
To show context switches in perf report sample context add --switch-events to perf record.
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