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+perf-lock(1)
+============
+
+NAME
+----
+perf-lock - Analyze lock events
+
+SYNOPSIS
+--------
+[verse]
+'perf lock' {record|report|script|info|contention}
+
+DESCRIPTION
+-----------
+You can analyze various lock behaviours
+and statistics with this 'perf lock' command.
+
+ 'perf lock record <command>' records lock events
+ between start and end <command>. And this command
+ produces the file "perf.data" which contains tracing
+ results of lock events.
+
+ 'perf lock report' reports statistical data.
+
+ 'perf lock script' shows raw lock events.
+
+ 'perf lock info' shows metadata like threads or addresses
+ of lock instances.
+
+ 'perf lock contention' shows contention statistics.
+
+COMMON OPTIONS
+--------------
+
+-i::
+--input=<file>::
+ Input file name. (default: perf.data unless stdin is a fifo)
+
+--output=<file>::
+ Output file name for perf lock contention and report.
+
+-v::
+--verbose::
+ Be more verbose (show symbol address, etc).
+
+-q::
+--quiet::
+ Do not show any warnings or messages. (Suppress -v)
+
+-D::
+--dump-raw-trace::
+ Dump raw trace in ASCII.
+
+-f::
+--force::
+ Don't complain, do it.
+
+--vmlinux=<file>::
+ vmlinux pathname
+
+--kallsyms=<file>::
+ kallsyms pathname
+
+
+REPORT OPTIONS
+--------------
+
+-k::
+--key=<value>::
+ Sorting key. Possible values: acquired (default), contended,
+ avg_wait, wait_total, wait_max, wait_min.
+
+-F::
+--field=<value>::
+ Output fields. By default it shows all the fields but users can
+ customize that using this. Possible values: acquired, contended,
+ avg_wait, wait_total, wait_max, wait_min.
+
+-c::
+--combine-locks::
+ Merge lock instances in the same class (based on name).
+
+-t::
+--threads::
+ The -t option is to show per-thread lock stat like below:
+
+ $ perf lock report -t -F acquired,contended,avg_wait
+
+ Name acquired contended avg wait (ns)
+
+ perf 240569 9 5784
+ swapper 106610 19 543
+ :15789 17370 2 14538
+ ContainerMgr 8981 6 874
+ sleep 5275 1 11281
+ ContainerThread 4416 4 944
+ RootPressureThr 3215 5 1215
+ rcu_preempt 2954 0 0
+ ContainerMgr 2560 0 0
+ unnamed 1873 0 0
+ EventManager_De 1845 1 636
+ futex-default-S 1609 0 0
+
+-E::
+--entries=<value>::
+ Display this many entries.
+
+
+INFO OPTIONS
+------------
+
+-t::
+--threads::
+ dump thread list in perf.data
+
+-m::
+--map::
+ dump map of lock instances (address:name table)
+
+
+CONTENTION OPTIONS
+--------------
+
+-k::
+--key=<value>::
+ Sorting key. Possible values: contended, wait_total (default),
+ wait_max, wait_min, avg_wait.
+
+-F::
+--field=<value>::
+ Output fields. By default it shows all but the wait_min fields
+ and users can customize that using this. Possible values:
+ contended, wait_total, wait_max, wait_min, avg_wait.
+
+-t::
+--threads::
+ Show per-thread lock contention stat
+
+-b::
+--use-bpf::
+ Use BPF program to collect lock contention stats instead of
+ using the input data.
+
+-a::
+--all-cpus::
+ System-wide collection from all CPUs.
+
+-C::
+--cpu=<value>::
+ Collect samples only on the list of CPUs provided. Multiple CPUs can be
+ provided as a comma-separated list with no space: 0,1. Ranges of CPUs
+ are specified with -: 0-2. Default is to monitor all CPUs.
+
+-p::
+--pid=<value>::
+ Record events on existing process ID (comma separated list).
+
+--tid=<value>::
+ Record events on existing thread ID (comma separated list).
+
+-M::
+--map-nr-entries=<value>::
+ Maximum number of BPF map entries (default: 16384).
+ This will be aligned to a power of 2.
+
+--max-stack=<value>::
+ Maximum stack depth when collecting lock contention (default: 8).
+
+--stack-skip=<value>::
+ Number of stack depth to skip when finding a lock caller (default: 3).
+
+-E::
+--entries=<value>::
+ Display this many entries.
+
+-l::
+--lock-addr::
+ Show lock contention stat by address
+
+-o::
+--lock-owner::
+ Show lock contention stat by owners. Implies --threads and
+ requires --use-bpf.
+
+-Y::
+--type-filter=<value>::
+ Show lock contention only for given lock types (comma separated list).
+ Available values are:
+ semaphore, spinlock, rwlock, rwlock:R, rwlock:W, rwsem, rwsem:R, rwsem:W,
+ rtmutex, rwlock-rt, rwlock-rt:R, rwlock-rt:W, pcpu-sem, pcpu-sem:R, pcpu-sem:W,
+ mutex
+
+ Note that RW-variant of locks have :R and :W suffix. Names without the
+ suffix are shortcuts for the both variants. Ex) rwsem = rwsem:R + rwsem:W.
+
+-L::
+--lock-filter=<value>::
+ Show lock contention only for given lock addresses or names (comma separated list).
+
+-S::
+--callstack-filter=<value>::
+ Show lock contention only if the callstack contains the given string.
+ Note that it matches the substring so 'rq' would match both 'raw_spin_rq_lock'
+ and 'irq_enter_rcu'.
+
+-x::
+--field-separator=<SEP>::
+ Show results using a CSV-style output to make it easy to import directly
+ into spreadsheets. Columns are separated by the string specified in SEP.
+
+
+SEE ALSO
+--------
+linkperf:perf[1]