3.1.3. Documentation

Online versions of the man pages for the commands discussed in this section can be found here:

Normally, you should be able to invoke the man pages via perf itself e.g. 'perf help' or 'perf help record'.

However, by default Yocto doesn't install man pages, but perf invokes the man pages for most help functionality. This is a bug and is being addressed by a Yocto bug: Bug 3388 - perf: enable man pages for basic 'help' functionality.

The man pages in text form, along with some other files, such as a set of examples, can be found in the 'perf' directory of the kernel tree:

     tools/perf/Documentation
            

There's also a nice perf tutorial on the perf wiki that goes into more detail than we do here in certain areas: Perf Tutorial