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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2014-10-19 11:55:41 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2014-10-19 11:55:41 -0700
commit1f6075f99073a8b5ec9649ae8c0bf2e06fdd42f1 (patch)
tree99d418273091b7f6779e779dfc6aa4e63c656d96 /tools/perf/Documentation
parent5e2ee7cd58fcee6c6cc954642faa584f54c8391e (diff)
parent3b10ea7f922b538ba5dcb3d979a6b6b4d07daae2 (diff)
Merge branch 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull more perf updates from Ingo Molnar: "A second (and last) round of late coming fixes and changes, almost all of them in perf tooling: User visible tooling changes: - Add period data column and make it default in 'perf script' (Jiri Olsa) - Add a visual cue for toggle zeroing of samples in 'perf top' (Taeung Song) - Improve callchains when using libunwind (Namhyung Kim) Tooling fixes and infrastructure changes: - Fix for double free in 'perf stat' when using some specific invalid command line combo (Yasser Shalabi) - Fix off-by-one bugs in map->end handling (Stephane Eranian) - Fix off-by-one bug in maps__find(), also related to map->end handling (Namhyung Kim) - Make struct symbol->end be the first addr after the symbol range, to make it match the convention used for struct map->end. (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo) - Fix perf_evlist__add_pollfd() error handling in 'perf kvm stat live' (Jiri Olsa) - Fix python test build by moving callchain_param to an object linked into the python binding (Jiri Olsa) - Document sysfs events/ interfaces (Cody P Schafer) - Fix typos in perf/Documentation (Masanari Iida) - Add missing 'struct option' forward declaration (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo) - Add option to copy events when queuing for sorting across cpu buffers and enable it for 'perf kvm stat live', to avoid having events left in the queue pointing to the ring buffer be rewritten in high volume sessions. (Alexander Yarygin, improving work done by David Ahern): - Do not include a struct hists per perf_evsel, untangling the histogram code from perf_evsel, to pave the way for exporting a minimalistic tools/lib/api/perf/ library usable by tools/perf and initially by the rasd daemon being developed by Borislav Petkov, Robert Richter and Jean Pihet. (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo) - Make perf_evlist__open(evlist, NULL, NULL), i.e. without cpu and thread maps mean syswide monitoring, reducing the boilerplate for tools that only want system wide mode. (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo) - Move exit stuff from perf_evsel__delete to perf_evsel__exit, delete should be just a front end for exit + free (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo) - Add support to new style format of kernel PMU event. (Kan Liang) and other misc fixes" * 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (45 commits) perf script: Add period as a default output column perf script: Add period data column perf evsel: No need to drag util/cgroup.h perf evlist: Add missing 'struct option' forward declaration perf evsel: Move exit stuff from __delete to __exit kprobes/x86: Remove stale ARCH_SUPPORTS_KPROBES_ON_FTRACE define perf kvm stat live: Enable events copying perf session: Add option to copy events when queueing perf Documentation: Fix typos in perf/Documentation perf trace: Use thread_{,_set}_priv helpers perf kvm: Use thread_{,_set}_priv helpers perf callchain: Create an address space per thread perf report: Set callchain_param.record_mode for future use perf evlist: Fix for double free in tools/perf stat perf test: Add test case for pmu event new style format perf tools: Add support to new style format of kernel PMU event perf tools: Parse the pmu event prefix and suffix Revert "perf tools: Default to cpu// for events v5" perf Documentation: Remove Ruplicated docs for powerpc cpu specific events perf Documentation: sysfs events/ interfaces ...
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/perf/Documentation')
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/Documentation/perf-diff.txt6
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/Documentation/perf-kvm.txt4
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/Documentation/perf-list.txt2
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt2
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/Documentation/perf-script-perl.txt4
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/Documentation/perf-script-python.txt6
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/Documentation/perf-script.txt4
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/Documentation/perf-test.txt2
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/Documentation/perf-trace.txt2
9 files changed, 16 insertions, 16 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-diff.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-diff.txt
index b3b8abae62b8..e463caa3eb49 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-diff.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-diff.txt
@@ -196,10 +196,10 @@ If specified the 'Weighted diff' column is displayed with value 'd' computed as:
- period being the hist entry period value
- - WEIGHT-A/WEIGHT-B being user suplied weights in the the '-c' option
+ - WEIGHT-A/WEIGHT-B being user supplied weights in the the '-c' option
behind ':' separator like '-c wdiff:1,2'.
- - WIEGHT-A being the weight of the data file
- - WIEGHT-B being the weight of the baseline data file
+ - WEIGHT-A being the weight of the data file
+ - WEIGHT-B being the weight of the baseline data file
SEE ALSO
--------
diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-kvm.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-kvm.txt
index 6e689dc89a2f..6252e776009c 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-kvm.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-kvm.txt
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ OPTIONS
STAT REPORT OPTIONS
-------------------
--vcpu=<value>::
- analyze events which occures on this vcpu. (default: all vcpus)
+ analyze events which occur on this vcpu. (default: all vcpus)
--event=<value>::
event to be analyzed. Possible values: vmexit, mmio (x86 only),
@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ STAT LIVE OPTIONS
Analyze events only for given process ID(s) (comma separated list).
--vcpu=<value>::
- analyze events which occures on this vcpu. (default: all vcpus)
+ analyze events which occur on this vcpu. (default: all vcpus)
--event=<value>::
diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-list.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-list.txt
index 6fce6a622206..cbb4f743d921 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-list.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-list.txt
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ various perf commands with the -e option.
EVENT MODIFIERS
---------------
-Events can optionally have a modifer by appending a colon and one or
+Events can optionally have a modifier by appending a colon and one or
more modifiers. Modifiers allow the user to restrict the events to be
counted. The following modifiers exist:
diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt
index d460049cae8e..398f8d53bd6d 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt
@@ -146,7 +146,7 @@ the thread executes on the designated CPUs. Default is to monitor all CPUs.
-N::
--no-buildid-cache::
-Do not update the builid cache. This saves some overhead in situations
+Do not update the buildid cache. This saves some overhead in situations
where the information in the perf.data file (which includes buildids)
is sufficient.
diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-script-perl.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-script-perl.txt
index d00bef231340..dfbb506d2c34 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-script-perl.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-script-perl.txt
@@ -181,8 +181,8 @@ strings for flag and symbolic fields. These correspond to the strings
and values parsed from the 'print fmt' fields of the event format
files:
- flag_str($event_name, $field_name, $field_value) - returns the string represention corresponding to $field_value for the flag field $field_name of event $event_name
- symbol_str($event_name, $field_name, $field_value) - returns the string represention corresponding to $field_value for the symbolic field $field_name of event $event_name
+ flag_str($event_name, $field_name, $field_value) - returns the string representation corresponding to $field_value for the flag field $field_name of event $event_name
+ symbol_str($event_name, $field_name, $field_value) - returns the string representation corresponding to $field_value for the symbolic field $field_name of event $event_name
Perf::Trace::Context Module
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-script-python.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-script-python.txt
index 9f1f054b8432..54acba221558 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-script-python.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-script-python.txt
@@ -263,7 +263,7 @@ and having the counts we've tallied as values.
The print_syscall_totals() function iterates over the entries in the
dictionary and displays a line for each entry containing the syscall
-name (the dictonary keys contain the syscall ids, which are passed to
+name (the dictionary keys contain the syscall ids, which are passed to
the Util function syscall_name(), which translates the raw syscall
numbers to the corresponding syscall name strings). The output is
displayed after all the events in the trace have been processed, by
@@ -576,8 +576,8 @@ strings for flag and symbolic fields. These correspond to the strings
and values parsed from the 'print fmt' fields of the event format
files:
- flag_str(event_name, field_name, field_value) - returns the string represention corresponding to field_value for the flag field field_name of event event_name
- symbol_str(event_name, field_name, field_value) - returns the string represention corresponding to field_value for the symbolic field field_name of event event_name
+ flag_str(event_name, field_name, field_value) - returns the string representation corresponding to field_value for the flag field field_name of event event_name
+ symbol_str(event_name, field_name, field_value) - returns the string representation corresponding to field_value for the symbolic field field_name of event event_name
The *autodict* function returns a special kind of Python
dictionary that implements Perl's 'autovivifying' hashes in Python
diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-script.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-script.txt
index 05f9a0a6784c..21494806c0ab 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-script.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-script.txt
@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ OPTIONS
-f::
--fields::
Comma separated list of fields to print. Options are:
- comm, tid, pid, time, cpu, event, trace, ip, sym, dso, addr, symoff, srcline.
+ comm, tid, pid, time, cpu, event, trace, ip, sym, dso, addr, symoff, srcline, period.
Field list can be prepended with the type, trace, sw or hw,
to indicate to which event type the field list applies.
e.g., -f sw:comm,tid,time,ip,sym and -f trace:time,cpu,trace
@@ -140,7 +140,7 @@ OPTIONS
"Overriding previous field request for all events."
- Alternativey, consider the order:
+ Alternatively, consider the order:
-f comm,tid,time,ip,sym -f trace:
diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-test.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-test.txt
index d1d3e5121f89..31a5c3ea7f74 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-test.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-test.txt
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ OPTIONS
-------
-s::
--skip::
- Tests to skip (comma separater numeric list).
+ Tests to skip (comma separated numeric list).
-v::
--verbose::
diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-trace.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-trace.txt
index 02aac831bdd9..7e1b1f2bb83c 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-trace.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-trace.txt
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ scheduling events, etc.
This is a live mode tool in addition to working with perf.data files like
the other perf tools. Files can be generated using the 'perf record' command
but the session needs to include the raw_syscalls events (-e 'raw_syscalls:*').
-Alernatively, the 'perf trace record' can be used as a shortcut to
+Alternatively, 'perf trace record' can be used as a shortcut to
automatically include the raw_syscalls events when writing events to a file.
The following options apply to perf trace; options to perf trace record are