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| author | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2009-06-06 20:33:43 +0200 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2009-06-06 20:33:43 +0200 |
| commit | 864709302a80f26fa9da3be5b47304f0b8bae192 (patch) | |
| tree | 8c2bab78f141fe43a38914bd3e3aae0a88f958e5 /tools/perf/Documentation/perf.txt | |
| parent | 75b5032212641f6d38ac041416945e70da833b68 (diff) | |
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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>
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diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..69c832557199 --- /dev/null +++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf.txt @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@ +perf(1) +======= + +NAME +---- +perf - Performance analysis tools for Linux + +SYNOPSIS +-------- +[verse] +'perf' [--version] [--help] COMMAND [ARGS] + +DESCRIPTION +----------- +Performance counters for Linux are are a new kernel-based subsystem +that provide a framework for all things performance analysis. It +covers hardware level (CPU/PMU, Performance Monitoring Unit) features +and software features (software counters, tracepoints) as well. + +SEE ALSO +-------- +linkperf:perf-stat[1], linkperf:perf-top[1], +linkperf:perf-record[1], linkperf:perf-report[1], +linkperf:perf-list[1] |
