linux/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-top.txt
Ingo Molnar 864709302a perf_counter tools: Move from Documentation/perf_counter/ to tools/perf/
Several people have suggested that 'perf' has become a full-fledged
tool that should be moved out of Documentation/. Move it to the
(new) tools/ directory.

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-06 20:33:43 +02:00

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perf-top(1)
===========
NAME
----
perf-top - Run a command and profile it
SYNOPSIS
--------
[verse]
'perf top' [-e <EVENT> | --event=EVENT] [-l] [-a] <command>
DESCRIPTION
-----------
This command runs a command and gathers a performance counter profile
from it.
OPTIONS
-------
<command>...::
Any command you can specify in a shell.
-e::
--event=::
Select the PMU event. Selection can be a symbolic event name
(use 'perf list' to list all events) or a raw PMU
event (eventsel+umask) in the form of rNNN where NNN is a
hexadecimal event descriptor.
-a::
system-wide collection
-l::
scale counter values
SEE ALSO
--------
linkperf:perf-stat[1], linkperf:perf-list[1]