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diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-mem.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-mem.txt index 965e73d37772..4d164836d094 100644 --- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-mem.txt +++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-mem.txt @@ -119,6 +119,22 @@ REPORT OPTIONS And the default sort keys are changed to local_weight, mem, sym, dso, symbol_daddr, dso_daddr, snoop, tlb, locked, blocked, local_ins_lat. +-F:: +--fields=:: + Specify output field - multiple keys can be specified in CSV format. + Please see linkperf:perf-report[1] for details. + + In addition to the default fields, 'perf mem report' will provide the + following fields to break down sample periods. + + - op: operation in the sample instruction (load, store, prefetch, ...) + - cache: location in CPU cache (L1, L2, ...) where the sample hit + - mem: location in memory or other places the sample hit + - dtlb: location in Data TLB (L1, L2) where the sample hit + - snoop: snoop result for the sampled data access + + Please take a look at the OUTPUT FIELD SELECTION section for caveats. + -T:: --type-profile:: Show data-type profile result instead of code symbols. This requires @@ -156,6 +172,40 @@ but one sample with weight 180 and the other with weight 20: 90% [k] memcpy 10% [.] strcmp +OUTPUT FIELD SELECTION +---------------------- +"perf mem report" adds a number of new output fields specific to data source +information in the sample. Some of them have the same name with the existing +sort keys ("mem" and "snoop"). So unlike other fields and sort keys, they'll +behave differently when it's used by -F/--fields or -s/--sort. + +Using those two as output fields will aggregate samples altogether and show +breakdown. + + $ perf mem report -F mem,snoop + ... + # ------ Memory ------- --- Snoop ---- + # RAM Uncach Other HitM Other + # ..................... .............. + # + 3.5% 0.0% 96.5% 25.1% 74.9% + +But using the same name for sort keys will aggregate samples for each type +separately. + + $ perf mem report -s mem,snoop + # Overhead Samples Memory access Snoop + # ........ ............ ....................................... ............ + # + 47.99% 1509 L2 hit N/A + 25.08% 338 core, same node Any cache hit HitM + 10.24% 54374 N/A N/A + 6.77% 35938 L1 hit N/A + 6.39% 101 core, same node Any cache hit N/A + 3.50% 69 RAM hit N/A + 0.03% 158 LFB/MAB hit N/A + 0.00% 2 Uncached hit N/A + SEE ALSO -------- linkperf:perf-record[1], linkperf:perf-report[1], linkperf:perf-arm-spe[1] |