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| -rw-r--r-- | lib/Kconfig.debug | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | tools/perf/Documentation/perf-lock.txt | 29 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | tools/perf/command-list.txt | 1 |
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diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug index 25c3ed594c54..65f964e7fe78 100644 --- a/lib/Kconfig.debug +++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug @@ -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 diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-lock.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-lock.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..b317102138c8 --- /dev/null +++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-lock.txt @@ -0,0 +1,29 @@ +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] diff --git a/tools/perf/command-list.txt b/tools/perf/command-list.txt index 9afcff2e3ae5..db6ee94d4a8e 100644 --- a/tools/perf/command-list.txt +++ b/tools/perf/command-list.txt @@ -18,3 +18,4 @@ perf-top mainporcelain common perf-trace mainporcelain common perf-probe mainporcelain common perf-kmem mainporcelain common +perf-lock mainporcelain common |