Commit 84c6f88f authored by Hitoshi Mitake's avatar Hitoshi Mitake Committed by Frederic Weisbecker

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: default avatarHitoshi 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: default avatarFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
parent 44ee6358
......@@ -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
......
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]
......@@ -18,3 +18,4 @@ perf-top mainporcelain common
perf-trace mainporcelain common
perf-probe mainporcelain common
perf-kmem mainporcelain common
perf-lock mainporcelain common
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