Merge branch 'perf/hw_breakpoints' into perf/core

[sfrench/cifs-2.6.git] / tools / perf / Documentation / perf-record.txt

diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt
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--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt
@@ -33,6 +33,18 @@ OPTIONS
         - a raw PMU event (eventsel+umask) in the form of rNNN where NNN is a
          hexadecimal event descriptor.
 
+       - a symbolically formed PMU event like 'pmu/param1=0x3,param2/' where
+         'param1', 'param2', etc are defined as formats for the PMU in
+         /sys/bus/event_sources/devices/<pmu>/format/*.
+
+       - a symbolically formed event like 'pmu/config=M,config1=N,config3=K/'
+
+          where M, N, K are numbers (in decimal, hex, octal format). Acceptable
+          values for each of 'config', 'config1' and 'config2' are defined by
+          corresponding entries in /sys/bus/event_sources/devices/<pmu>/format/*
+          param1 and param2 are defined as formats for the PMU in:
+          /sys/bus/event_sources/devices/<pmu>/format/*
+
         - 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