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authorStephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>2013-01-24 16:10:38 +0100
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2013-04-01 12:21:44 -0300
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perf tools: Add new mem command for memory access profiling
This new command is a wrapper on top of perf record and perf report to make it easier to configure for memory access profiling. To record loads: $ perf mem -t load rec ..... To record stores: $ perf mem -t store rec ..... To get the report: $ perf mem -t load rep Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1359040242-8269-15-git-send-email-eranian@google.com [ Fixed minor conflict with 66857b5 "Sort command-list.txt alphabetically" ] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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+perf-mem(1)
+===========
+
+NAME
+----
+perf-mem - Profile memory accesses
+
+SYNOPSIS
+--------
+[verse]
+'perf mem' [<options>] (record [<command>] | report)
+
+DESCRIPTION
+-----------
+"perf mem -t <TYPE> record" runs a command and gathers memory operation data
+from it, into perf.data. Perf record options are accepted and are passed through.
+
+"perf mem -t <TYPE> report" displays the result. It invokes perf report with the
+right set of options to display a memory access profile.
+
+OPTIONS
+-------
+<command>...::
+ Any command you can specify in a shell.
+
+-t::
+--type=::
+ Select the memory operation type: load or store (default: load)
+
+-D::
+--dump-raw-samples=::
+ Dump the raw decoded samples on the screen in a format that is easy to parse with
+ one sample per line.
+
+-x::
+--field-separator::
+ Specify the field separator used when dump raw samples (-D option). By default,
+ The separator is the space character.
+
+-C::
+--cpu-list::
+ Restrict dump of raw samples to those provided via this option. Note that the same
+ option can be passed in record mode. It will be interpreted the same way as perf
+ record.
+
+SEE ALSO
+--------
+linkperf:perf-record[1], linkperf:perf-report[1]