From 864709302a80f26fa9da3be5b47304f0b8bae192 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ingo Molnar Date: Sat, 6 Jun 2009 20:33:43 +0200 Subject: 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 Cc: Mike Galbraith Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo LKML-Reference: Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- tools/perf/Documentation/perf.txt | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 24 insertions(+) create mode 100644 tools/perf/Documentation/perf.txt (limited to 'tools/perf/Documentation/perf.txt') 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] -- cgit v1.2.1