[PATCH V2 5/6] perf, documentation: Description for conditional branch filter

Anshuman Khandual khandual at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Fri Aug 30 14:24:49 EST 2013


Adding documentation support for conditional branch filter.

Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual <khandual at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian at google.com>
---
 tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt
index e297b74..59ca8d0 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt
@@ -163,12 +163,13 @@ following filters are defined:
         - any_call: any function call or system call
         - any_ret: any function return or system call return
         - ind_call: any indirect branch
+        - cond: conditional branches
         - u:  only when the branch target is at the user level
         - k: only when the branch target is in the kernel
         - hv: only when the target is at the hypervisor level
 
 +
-The option requires at least one branch type among any, any_call, any_ret, ind_call.
+The option requires at least one branch type among any, any_call, any_ret, ind_call, cond.
 The privilege levels may be omitted, in which case, the privilege levels of the associated
 event are applied to the branch filter. Both kernel (k) and hypervisor (hv) privilege
 levels are subject to permissions.  When sampling on multiple events, branch stack sampling
-- 
1.7.11.7



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