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authorHitoshi Mitake <mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp>2010-02-04 16:08:15 +0900
committerFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>2010-02-27 17:05:22 +0100
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perf lock: Fix and add misc documentally things
I've forgot to add 'perf lock' line to command-list.txt, so users of perf could not find perf lock when they type 'perf'. Fixing command-list.txt requires document (tools/perf/Documentation/perf-lock.txt). But perf lock is too much "under construction" to write a stable document, so this is something like pseudo document for now. And I wrote description of perf lock at help section of CONFIG_LOCK_STAT, this will navigate users of lock trace events. Signed-off-by: Hitoshi Mitake <mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net> LKML-Reference: <1265267295-8388-1-git-send-email-mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
-rw-r--r--lib/Kconfig.debug6
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/Documentation/perf-lock.txt29
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/command-list.txt1
3 files changed, 36 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug
index 25c3ed5..65f964e 100644
--- a/lib/Kconfig.debug
+++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug
@@ -520,6 +520,12 @@ config LOCK_STAT
For more details, see Documentation/lockstat.txt
+ You can analyze lock events with "perf lock", subcommand of perf.
+ If you want to use "perf lock", you need to turn on CONFIG_EVENT_TRACING.
+
+ CONFIG_LOCK_STAT defines "contended" and "acquired" lock events.
+ (CONFIG_LOCKDEP defines "acquire" and "release" events.)
+
config DEBUG_LOCKDEP
bool "Lock dependency engine debugging"
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCKDEP
diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-lock.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-lock.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b317102
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-lock.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+perf-lock(1)
+============
+
+NAME
+----
+perf-lock - Analyze lock events
+
+SYNOPSIS
+--------
+[verse]
+'perf lock' {record|report|trace}
+
+DESCRIPTION
+-----------
+You can analyze various lock behaviours
+and statistics with this 'perf lock' command.
+
+ 'perf lock record <command>' records lock events
+ between start and end <command>. And this command
+ produces the file "perf.data" which contains tracing
+ results of lock events.
+
+ 'perf lock trace' shows raw lock events.
+
+ 'perf lock report' reports statistical data.
+
+SEE ALSO
+--------
+linkperf:perf[1]
diff --git a/tools/perf/command-list.txt b/tools/perf/command-list.txt
index 9afcff2..db6ee94 100644
--- a/tools/perf/command-list.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/command-list.txt
@@ -18,3 +18,4 @@ perf-top mainporcelain common
perf-trace mainporcelain common
perf-probe mainporcelain common
perf-kmem mainporcelain common
+perf-lock mainporcelain common