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diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-list.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-list.txt index 3b12595193c9..ce0735021473 100644 --- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-list.txt +++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-list.txt @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ perf-list - List all symbolic event types SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] -'perf list' [--no-desc] [--long-desc] +'perf list' [<options>] [hw|sw|cache|tracepoint|pmu|sdt|metric|metricgroup|event_glob] DESCRIPTION @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ Don't print descriptions. -v:: --long-desc:: -Print longer event descriptions. +Print longer event descriptions and all similar PMUs with alphanumeric suffixes. --debug:: Enable debugging output. @@ -71,6 +71,8 @@ counted. The following modifiers exist: D - pin the event to the PMU W - group is weak and will fallback to non-group if not schedulable, e - group or event are exclusive and do not share the PMU + b - use BPF aggregration (see perf stat --bpf-counters) + R - retire latency value of the event The 'p' modifier can be used for specifying how precise the instruction address should be. The 'p' modifier can be specified multiple times: @@ -186,7 +188,7 @@ in the CPU vendor specific documentation. The available PMUs and their raw parameters can be listed with - ls /sys/devices/*/format + ls /sys/bus/event_source/devices/*/format For example the raw event "LSD.UOPS" core pmu event above could be specified as @@ -241,6 +243,21 @@ For accessing trace point events perf needs to have read access to /sys/kernel/tracing, even when perf_event_paranoid is in a relaxed setting. +TOOL/HWMON EVENTS +----------------- + +Some events don't have an associated PMU instead reading values +available to software without perf_event_open. As these events don't +support sampling they can only really be read by tools like perf stat. + +Tool events provide times and certain system parameters. Examples +include duration_time, user_time, system_time and num_cpus_online. + +Hwmon events provide easy access to hwmon sysfs data typically in +/sys/class/hwmon. This information includes temperatures, fan speeds +and energy usage. + + TRACING ------- @@ -272,6 +289,15 @@ Sums up the event counts for all hardware threads in a core, e.g.: perf stat -e cpu/event=0,umask=0x3,percore=1/ +cpu: + +Specifies the CPU to open the event upon. The value may be repeated to +specify opening the event on multiple CPUs: + + + perf stat -e instructions/cpu=0,cpu=2/,cycles/cpu=1,cpu=2/ -a sleep 1 + perf stat -e data_read/cpu=0/,data_write/cpu=1/ -a sleep 1 + EVENT GROUPS ------------ |