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author | Alex Rønne Petersen <alexrp@xamarin.com> | 2016-09-14 19:20:14 +0300 |
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committer | Alex Rønne Petersen <alexrp@xamarin.com> | 2016-10-02 19:54:04 +0300 |
commit | e998d8808fa3c7466d95387f749087c11e7692fe (patch) | |
tree | dd2eae8feebf9f806c6da190fe8bca756e5caa03 /man | |
parent | a6f95ab511fdecca6ef675ca3527e64aca0cb606 (diff) |
[profiler] Drop support for perf events on Linux.
Diffstat (limited to 'man')
-rw-r--r-- | man/mprof-report.1 | 22 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 20 deletions
diff --git a/man/mprof-report.1 b/man/mprof-report.1 index b96001d2c63..168759897a9 100644 --- a/man/mprof-report.1 +++ b/man/mprof-report.1 @@ -139,30 +139,12 @@ garbage collections to the control port .RE .IP \[bu] 2 -\f[I]sample[=TYPE[/FREQ]]\f[]: collect statistical samples of the +\f[I]sample[=FREQ]\f[]: collect statistical samples of the program behaviour. The default is to collect a 100 times per second (100 Hz) the instruction pointer. -This is equivalent to the value \[lq]cycles/100\[rq]. +This is equivalent to the value \[lq]100\[rq]. A value of zero for \f[I]FREQ\f[] effectively disables sampling. -On some systems, like with recent Linux kernels, it is possible to -cause the sampling to happen for other events provided by the -performance counters of the cpu. -In this case, \f[I]TYPE\f[] can be one of: -.RS 2 -.IP \[bu] 2 -\f[I]cycles\f[]: processor cycles -.IP \[bu] 2 -\f[I]instr\f[]: executed instructions -.IP \[bu] 2 -\f[I]cacherefs\f[]: cache references -.IP \[bu] 2 -\f[I]cachemiss\f[]: cache misses -.IP \[bu] 2 -\f[I]branches\f[]: executed branches -.IP \[bu] 2 -\f[I]branchmiss\f[]: mispredicted branches -.RE .IP \[bu] 2 \f[I]maxframes=NUM\f[]: when a stack trace needs to be performed, collect \f[I]NUM\f[] frames at the most. |