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authorAdrian Hunter2017-05-26 11:17:22 +0300
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo2017-06-27 12:19:10 -0300
commit47e780848e6229b102e601deeb1ce571dc69a84a (patch)
tree7e89b9e857b04e1ec0adc32e3dea99a319946769 /tools/perf/Documentation
parent70d110d775993ff1f63905bbdbc70e3f6bd8da8a (diff)
perf script: Add 'synth' field for synthesized event payloads
Add a field to display the content the raw_data of a synthesized event. Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1495786658-18063-22-git-send-email-adrian.hunter@intel.com [ Resolved conflict with 106dacd86f04 ("perf script: Support -F brstackoff,dso") ] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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-rw-r--r--tools/perf/Documentation/perf-script.txt6
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-script.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-script.txt
index e2468ed6a307..5ee8796be96e 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-script.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-script.txt
@@ -117,7 +117,8 @@ OPTIONS
Comma separated list of fields to print. Options are:
comm, tid, pid, time, cpu, event, trace, ip, sym, dso, addr, symoff,
srcline, period, iregs, brstack, brstacksym, flags, bpf-output, brstackinsn, brstackoff,
- callindent, insn, insnlen. Field list can be prepended with the type, trace, sw or hw,
+ callindent, insn, insnlen, synth.
+ 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
@@ -193,6 +194,9 @@ OPTIONS
instruction bytes and the instruction length of the current
instruction.
+ The synth field is used by synthesized events which may be created when
+ Instruction Trace decoding.
+
Finally, a user may not set fields to none for all event types.
i.e., -F "" is not allowed.