6 perf-top - System profiling tool.
11 'perf top' [-e <EVENT> | --event=EVENT] [<options>]
15 This command generates and displays a performance counter profile in real time.
22 System-wide collection. (default)
26 Event period to sample.
30 Monitor only on the list of CPUs provided. Multiple CPUs can be provided as a
31 comma-separated list with no space: 0,1. Ranges of CPUs are specified with -: 0-2.
32 Default is to monitor all CPUS.
36 Number of seconds to delay between refreshes.
40 Select the PMU event. Selection can be a symbolic event name
41 (use 'perf list' to list all events) or a raw PMU
42 event (eventsel+umask) in the form of rNNN where NNN is a
43 hexadecimal event descriptor.
47 Display this many functions.
50 --count-filter=<count>::
51 Only display functions with more events than this.
54 Put the counters into a counter group.
58 Profile at this frequency.
62 Child tasks do not inherit counters.
66 Path to vmlinux. Required for annotation functionality.
69 --mmap-pages=<pages>::
70 Number of mmap data pages (must be a power of two) or size
71 specification with appended unit character - B/K/M/G. The
72 size is rounded up to have nearest pages power of two value.
76 Profile events on existing Process ID (comma separated list).
80 Profile events on existing thread ID (comma separated list).
84 Record events in threads owned by uid. Name or number.
87 --realtime=<priority>::
88 Collect data with this RT SCHED_FIFO priority.
90 --sym-annotate=<symbol>::
94 --hide_kernel_symbols::
102 Demangle kernel symbols.
106 Dump the symbol table used for profiling.
110 Be more verbose (show counter open errors, etc).
114 Zero history across display updates.
118 Sort by key(s): pid, comm, dso, symbol, parent, srcline, weight,
119 local_weight, abort, in_tx, transaction, overhead, sample, period.
120 Please see description of --sort in the perf-report man page.
123 Specify output field - multiple keys can be specified in CSV format.
124 Following fields are available:
125 overhead, overhead_sys, overhead_us, overhead_children, sample and period.
126 Also it can contain any sort key(s).
128 By default, every sort keys not specified in --field will be appended
133 Show a column with the number of samples.
135 --show-total-period::
136 Show a column with the sum of periods.
139 Only consider symbols in these dsos. This option will affect the
140 percentage of the overhead column. See --percentage for more info.
143 Only consider symbols in these comms. This option will affect the
144 percentage of the overhead column. See --percentage for more info.
147 Only consider these symbols. This option will affect the
148 percentage of the overhead column. See --percentage for more info.
151 --disassembler-style=:: Set disassembler style for objdump.
154 Interleave source code with assembly code. Enabled by default,
155 disable with --no-source.
158 Show raw instruction encoding of assembly instructions.
161 Enables call-graph (stack chain/backtrace) recording.
164 Setup and enable call-graph (stack chain/backtrace) recording,
168 Accumulate callchain of children to parent entry so that then can
169 show up in the output. The output will have a new "Children" column
170 and will be sorted on the data. It requires -g/--call-graph option
171 enabled. See the `overhead calculation' section for more details.
174 Set the stack depth limit when parsing the callchain, anything
175 beyond the specified depth will be ignored. This is a trade-off
176 between information loss and faster processing especially for
177 workloads that can have a very long callchain stack.
181 --ignore-callees=<regex>::
182 Ignore callees of the function(s) matching the given regex.
183 This has the effect of collecting the callers of each such
184 function into one place in the call-graph tree.
187 Do not show entries which have an overhead under that percent.
191 Determine how to display the overhead percentage of filtered entries.
192 Filters can be applied by --comms, --dsos and/or --symbols options and
193 Zoom operations on the TUI (thread, dso, etc).
195 "relative" means it's relative to filtered entries only so that the
196 sum of shown entries will be always 100%. "absolute" means it retains
197 the original value before and after the filter is applied.
200 --column-widths=<width[,width...]>::
201 Force each column width to the provided list, for large terminal
202 readability. 0 means no limit (default behavior).
205 When processing pre-existing threads /proc/XXX/mmap, it may take
206 a long time, because the file may be huge. A time out is needed
208 This option sets the time out limit. The default value is 500 ms.
213 Enable taken branch stack sampling. Any type of taken branch may be sampled.
214 This is a shortcut for --branch-filter any. See --branch-filter for more infos.
218 Enable taken branch stack sampling. Each sample captures a series of consecutive
219 taken branches. The number of branches captured with each sample depends on the
220 underlying hardware, the type of branches of interest, and the executed code.
221 It is possible to select the types of branches captured by enabling filters.
222 For a full list of modifiers please see the perf record manpage.
224 The option requires at least one branch type among any, any_call, any_ret, ind_call, cond.
225 The privilege levels may be omitted, in which case, the privilege levels of the associated
226 event are applied to the branch filter. Both kernel (k) and hypervisor (hv) privilege
227 levels are subject to permissions. When sampling on multiple events, branch stack sampling
228 is enabled for all the sampling events. The sampled branch type is the same for all events.
229 The various filters must be specified as a comma separated list: --branch-filter any_ret,u,k
230 Note that this feature may not be available on all processors.
232 INTERACTIVE PROMPTING KEYS
233 --------------------------
236 Display refresh delay.
239 Number of entries to display.
242 Event to display when multiple counters are active.
245 Profile display filter (>= hit count).
248 Annotation display filter (>= % of total).
254 Stop annotation, return to full profile display.
257 Toggle event count zeroing across display updates.
262 Pressing any unmapped key displays a menu, and prompts for input.
264 include::callchain-overhead-calculation.txt[]
268 linkperf:perf-stat[1], linkperf:perf-list[1], linkperf:perf-report[1]