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+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-script.txt
@@ -132,9 +132,10 @@ OPTIONS
Comma separated list of fields to print. Options are:
comm, tid, pid, time, cpu, event, trace, ip, sym, dso, dsoff, addr, symoff,
srcline, period, iregs, uregs, brstack, brstacksym, flags, bpf-output,
- brstackinsn, brstackinsnlen, brstackoff, callindent, insn, insnlen, synth,
- phys_addr, metric, misc, srccode, ipc, data_page_size, code_page_size, ins_lat,
- machine_pid, vcpu, cgroup, retire_lat.
+ brstackinsn, brstackinsnlen, brstackoff, callindent, insn, disasm,
+ insnlen, synth, phys_addr, metric, misc, srccode, ipc, data_page_size,
+ code_page_size, ins_lat, machine_pid, vcpu, cgroup, retire_lat.
+
Field list can be prepended with the type, trace, sw or hw,
to indicate to which event type the field list applies.
e.g., -F sw:comm,tid,time,ip,sym and -F trace:time,cpu,trace
@@ -217,9 +218,9 @@ OPTIONS
Instruction Trace decoding. For calls and returns, it will display the
name of the symbol indented with spaces to reflect the stack depth.
- When doing instruction trace decoding insn and insnlen give the
- instruction bytes and the instruction length of the current
- instruction.
+ When doing instruction trace decoding, insn, disasm and insnlen give the
+ instruction bytes, disassembled instructions (requires libcapstone support)
+ and the instruction length of the current instruction respectively.
The synth field is used by synthesized events which may be created when
Instruction Trace decoding.
@@ -441,9 +442,10 @@ include::itrace.txt[]
will be printed. Each entry has function name and file/line. Enabled by
default, disable with --no-inline.
---insn-trace::
- Show instruction stream for intel_pt traces. Combine with --xed to
- show disassembly.
+--insn-trace[=<raw|disasm>]::
+ Show instruction stream in bytes (raw) or disassembled (disasm)
+ for intel_pt traces. The default is 'raw'. To use xed, combine
+ 'raw' with --xed to show disassembly done by xed.
--xed::
Run xed disassembler on output. Requires installing the xed disassembler.