Commit 3d5d68aa authored by Kan Liang's avatar Kan Liang Committed by Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf record: Document setting '-e pmu/period=N/' in man page

The 'period' param is not defined in
/sys/bus/event_sources/devices/<pmu>/format/*, but can be used, document
it.
Signed-off-by: default avatarKan Liang <kan.liang@intel.com>
Acked-by: default avatarJiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1436345097-11113-3-git-send-email-kan.liang@intel.comSigned-off-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
parent 60cd37eb
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param1 and param2 are defined as formats for the PMU in:
/sys/bus/event_sources/devices/<pmu>/format/*
There are also some params which are not defined in .../<pmu>/format/*.
These params can be used to set event defaults.
Here is a list of the params.
- 'period': Set event sampling period
Note: If user explicitly sets options which conflict with the params,
the value set by the params will be overridden.
- a hardware breakpoint event in the form of '\mem:addr[/len][:access]'
where addr is the address in memory you want to break in.
Access is the memory access type (read, write, execute) it can
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