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authorIan Rogers <[email protected]>2024-04-16 10:00:13 -0700
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>2024-04-18 22:22:51 -0300
commiteb4d27cf9aef3e6c9bcaf8fa1a1cadc2433d847b (patch)
tree0cf341b78e2e5b0a37185d89649e8fe4a74fb11e
parent6b718ac6874c2233b8dec369a8a377d6c5b638e6 (diff)
perf docs: Document bpf event modifier
Document that 'b' is used as a modifier to make an event use a BPF counter. Fixes: 01bd8efcec444468 ("perf stat: Introduce ':b' modifier") Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <[email protected]> Cc: Adrian Hunter <[email protected]> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <[email protected]> Cc: Athira Rajeev <[email protected]> Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]> Cc: Kan Liang <[email protected]> Cc: Mark Rutland <[email protected]> Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Ravi Bangoria <[email protected]> Cc: Song Liu <[email protected]> Cc: Thomas Richter <[email protected]> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
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diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-list.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-list.txt
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+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-list.txt
@@ -71,6 +71,7 @@ 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)
The 'p' modifier can be used for specifying how precise the instruction
address should be. The 'p' modifier can be specified multiple times: