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| author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2012-01-06 08:02:58 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2012-01-06 08:02:58 -0800 |
| commit | 35b740e4662ef386f0c60e1b60aaf5b44db9914c (patch) | |
| tree | 502a8f9499bc1b4cb3300d666dab2d01a1921224 /tools/perf/Documentation/perf-test.txt | |
| parent | 423d091dfe58d3109d84c408810a7cfa82f6f184 (diff) | |
| parent | 9e183426bfb52bb44bf3c443d6587e4d02478603 (diff) | |
Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (106 commits)
perf kvm: Fix copy & paste error in description
perf script: Kill script_spec__delete
perf top: Fix a memory leak
perf stat: Introduce get_ratio_color() helper
perf session: Remove impossible condition check
perf tools: Fix feature-bits rework fallout, remove unused variable
perf script: Add generic perl handler to process events
perf tools: Use for_each_set_bit() to iterate over feature flags
perf tools: Unify handling of features when writing feature section
perf report: Accept fifos as input file
perf tools: Moving code in some files
perf tools: Fix out-of-bound access to struct perf_session
perf tools: Continue processing header on unknown features
perf tools: Improve macros for struct feature_ops
perf: builtin-record: Document and check that mmap_pages must be a power of two.
perf: builtin-record: Provide advice if mmap'ing fails with EPERM.
perf tools: Fix truncated annotation
perf script: look up thread using tid instead of pid
perf tools: Look up thread names for system wide profiling
perf tools: Fix comm for processes with named threads
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Diffstat (limited to 'tools/perf/Documentation/perf-test.txt')
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1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-test.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-test.txt index 2c3b462f64b0..b24ac40fcd58 100644 --- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-test.txt +++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-test.txt @@ -8,13 +8,19 @@ perf-test - Runs sanity tests. SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] -'perf test <options>' +'perf test [<options>] [{list <test-name-fragment>|[<test-name-fragments>|<test-numbers>]}]' DESCRIPTION ----------- This command does assorted sanity tests, initially through linked routines but also will look for a directory with more tests in the form of scripts. +To get a list of available tests use 'perf test list', specifying a test name +fragment will show all tests that have it. + +To run just specific tests, inform test name fragments or the numbers obtained +from 'perf test list'. + OPTIONS ------- -v:: |