perf/documentation: Add description for conditional branch filter
authorAnshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Thu, 22 May 2014 07:20:10 +0000 (12:50 +0530)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Thu, 5 Jun 2014 10:30:27 +0000 (12:30 +0200)
Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: mpe@ellerman.id.au
Cc: benh@kernel.crashing.org
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1400743210-32289-4-git-send-email-khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt

index c71b0f36d9e8d45285a5b2b1256876f4d6f27799..d460049cae8e7c798dcad7bcd8b0cea795dfb29b 100644 (file)
@@ -184,9 +184,10 @@ following filters are defined:
        - in_tx: only when the target is in a hardware transaction
        - no_tx: only when the target is not in a hardware transaction
        - abort_tx: only when the target is a hardware transaction abort
+       - cond: conditional branches
 
 +
-The option requires at least one branch type among any, any_call, any_ret, ind_call.
+The option requires at least one branch type among any, any_call, any_ret, ind_call, cond.
 The privilege levels may be omitted, in which case, the privilege levels of the associated
 event are applied to the branch filter. Both kernel (k) and hypervisor (hv) privilege
 levels are subject to permissions.  When sampling on multiple events, branch stack sampling