1perf(1) 2======= 3 4NAME 5---- 6perf - Performance analysis tools for Linux 7 8SYNOPSIS 9-------- 10[verse] 11'perf' [--version] [--help] [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARGS] 12 13OPTIONS 14------- 15-h:: 16--help:: 17 Run perf help command. 18 19-v:: 20--version:: 21 Display perf version. 22 23-vv:: 24 Print the compiled-in status of libraries. 25 26--exec-path:: 27 Display or set exec path. 28 29--html-path:: 30 Display html documentation path. 31 32-p:: 33--paginate:: 34 Set up pager. 35 36--no-pager:: 37 Do not set pager. 38 39--buildid-dir:: 40 Setup buildid cache directory. It has higher priority 41 than buildid.dir config file option. 42 43--list-cmds:: 44 List the most commonly used perf commands. 45 46--list-opts:: 47 List available perf options. 48 49--debugfs-dir:: 50 Set debugfs directory or set environment variable PERF_DEBUGFS_DIR. 51 52--debug:: 53 Setup debug variable (see list below) in value 54 range (0, 10). Use like: 55 --debug verbose # sets verbose = 1 56 --debug verbose=2 # sets verbose = 2 57 58 List of debug variables allowed to set: 59 verbose - general debug messages 60 ordered-events - ordered events object debug messages 61 data-convert - data convert command debug messages 62 stderr - write debug output (option -v) to stderr 63 in browser mode 64 perf-event-open - Print perf_event_open() arguments and 65 return value 66 kmaps - Print kernel and module maps (perf script 67 and perf report without browser) 68 69--debug-file:: 70 Write debug output to a specified file. 71 72DESCRIPTION 73----------- 74Performance counters for Linux are a new kernel-based subsystem 75that provide a framework for all things performance analysis. It 76covers hardware level (CPU/PMU, Performance Monitoring Unit) features 77and software features (software counters, tracepoints) as well. 78 79SEE ALSO 80-------- 81linkperf:perf-stat[1], linkperf:perf-top[1], 82linkperf:perf-record[1], linkperf:perf-report[1], 83linkperf:perf-list[1] 84 85linkperf:perf-annotate[1],linkperf:perf-archive[1],linkperf:perf-arm-spe[1], 86linkperf:perf-bench[1], linkperf:perf-buildid-cache[1], 87linkperf:perf-buildid-list[1], linkperf:perf-c2c[1], 88linkperf:perf-config[1], linkperf:perf-data[1], linkperf:perf-diff[1], 89linkperf:perf-evlist[1], linkperf:perf-ftrace[1], 90linkperf:perf-help[1], linkperf:perf-inject[1], 91linkperf:perf-intel-pt[1], linkperf:perf-iostat[1], linkperf:perf-kallsyms[1], 92linkperf:perf-kmem[1], linkperf:perf-kvm[1], linkperf:perf-lock[1], 93linkperf:perf-mem[1], linkperf:perf-probe[1], linkperf:perf-sched[1], 94linkperf:perf-script[1], linkperf:perf-test[1], 95linkperf:perf-trace[1], linkperf:perf-version[1] 96