NAME¶

perf - Performance analysis tools for Linux

SYNOPSIS¶

perf [--version] [--help] [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARGS]

OPTIONS¶

-h, --help

-v, --version

-vv

--exec-path

--html-path

-p, --paginate

--no-pager

--buildid-dir

--list-cmds

--list-opts

--debugfs-dir

--debug

List of debug variables allowed to set:


  verbose          - general debug messages


  ordered-events   - ordered events object debug messages


  data-convert     - data convert command debug messages


  stderr           - write debug output (option -v) to stderr


                     in browser mode


  perf-event-open  - Print perf_event_open() arguments and


                     return value

DESCRIPTION¶

Performance counters for Linux 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¶

perf-stat(1), perf-top(1), perf-record(1), perf-report(1), perf-list(1)

perf-annotate(1),perf-archive(1),perf-arm-spe(1), perf-bench(1), perf-buildid-cache(1), perf-buildid-list(1), perf-c2c(1), perf-config(1), perf-data(1), perf-diff(1), perf-evlist(1), perf-ftrace(1), perf-help(1), perf-inject(1), perf-intel-pt(1), perf-iostat(1), perf-kallsyms(1), perf-kmem(1), perf-kvm(1), perf-lock(1), perf-mem(1), perf-probe(1), perf-sched(1), perf-script(1), perf-test(1), perf-trace(1), perf-version(1)