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authorRavi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@linux.ibm.com>2020-02-13 12:13:06 +0530
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2020-02-27 10:45:19 -0300
commitb0aaf4c8f31feb21de59df723231c286df2d6be3 (patch)
tree388c3ffc4da345fa34ff92a0443d11a50183cf56 /tools
parentcd0a9c518db123e2097e03eae374e822d82493fd (diff)
perf config: Document missing config options
While documenting annotate.show_nr_samples config option, I found many other config options missing in perf-config documentation. Add them. Signed-off-by: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Alexey Budankov <alexey.budankov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Changbin Du <changbin.du@intel.com> Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com> Cc: Jin Yao <yao.jin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Leo Yan <leo.yan@linaro.org> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com> Cc: Taeung Song <treeze.taeung@gmail.com> Cc: Thomas Richter <tmricht@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Yisheng Xie <xieyisheng1@huawei.com> Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200213064306.160480-9-ravi.bangoria@linux.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools')
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/Documentation/perf-config.txt44
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diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-config.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-config.txt
index 9dae0df3ab7e..8ead55593984 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-config.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-config.txt
@@ -518,6 +518,12 @@ top.*::
column by default.
The default is 'true'.
+ top.call-graph::
+ This is identical to 'call-graph.record-mode', except it is
+ applicable only for 'top' subcommand. This option ONLY setup
+ the unwind method. To enable 'perf top' to actually use it,
+ the command line option -g must be specified.
+
man.*::
man.viewer::
This option can assign a tool to view manual pages when 'help'
@@ -545,6 +551,16 @@ record.*::
But if this option is 'no-cache', it will not update the build-id cache.
'skip' skips post-processing and does not update the cache.
+ record.call-graph::
+ This is identical to 'call-graph.record-mode', except it is
+ applicable only for 'record' subcommand. This option ONLY setup
+ the unwind method. To enable 'perf record' to actually use it,
+ the command line option -g must be specified.
+
+ record.aio::
+ Use 'n' control blocks in asynchronous (Posix AIO) trace writing
+ mode ('n' default: 1, max: 4).
+
diff.*::
diff.order::
This option sets the number of columns to sort the result.
@@ -594,6 +610,11 @@ trace.*::
"libbeauty", the default, to use the same argument beautifiers used in the
strace-like sys_enter+sys_exit lines.
+ftrace.*::
+ ftrace.tracer::
+ Can be used to select the default tracer. Possible values are
+ 'function' and 'function_graph'.
+
llvm.*::
llvm.clang-path::
Path to clang. If omit, search it from $PATH.
@@ -638,6 +659,29 @@ scripts.*::
The script gets the same options passed as a full perf script,
in particular -i perfdata file, --cpu, --tid
+convert.*::
+
+ convert.queue-size::
+ Limit the size of ordered_events queue, so we could control
+ allocation size of perf data files without proper finished
+ round events.
+
+intel-pt.*::
+
+ intel-pt.cache-divisor::
+
+ intel-pt.mispred-all::
+ If set, Intel PT decoder will set the mispred flag on all
+ branches.
+
+auxtrace.*::
+
+ auxtrace.dumpdir::
+ s390 only. The directory to save the auxiliary trace buffer
+ can be changed using this option. Ex, auxtrace.dumpdir=/tmp.
+ If the directory does not exist or has the wrong file type,
+ the current directory is used.
+
SEE ALSO
--------
linkperf:perf[1]