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v5.4
  1perf-config(1)
  2==============
  3
  4NAME
  5----
  6perf-config - Get and set variables in a configuration file.
  7
  8SYNOPSIS
  9--------
 10[verse]
 11'perf config' [<file-option>] [section.name[=value] ...]
 12or
 13'perf config' [<file-option>] -l | --list
 14
 15DESCRIPTION
 16-----------
 17You can manage variables in a configuration file with this command.
 18
 19OPTIONS
 20-------
 21
 22-l::
 23--list::
 24	Show current config variables, name and value, for all sections.
 25
 26--user::
 27	For writing and reading options: write to user
 28	'$HOME/.perfconfig' file or read it.
 29
 30--system::
 31	For writing and reading options: write to system-wide
 32	'$(sysconfdir)/perfconfig' or read it.
 33
 34CONFIGURATION FILE
 35------------------
 36
 37The perf configuration file contains many variables to change various
 38aspects of each of its tools, including output, disk usage, etc.
 39The '$HOME/.perfconfig' file is used to store a per-user configuration.
 40The file '$(sysconfdir)/perfconfig' can be used to
 41store a system-wide default configuration.
 42
 43One an disable reading config files by setting the PERF_CONFIG environment
 44variable to /dev/null, or provide an alternate config file by setting that
 45variable.
 46
 47When reading or writing, the values are read from the system and user
 48configuration files by default, and options '--system' and '--user'
 49can be used to tell the command to read from or write to only that location.
 50
 51Syntax
 52~~~~~~
 53
 54The file consist of sections. A section starts with its name
 55surrounded by square brackets and continues till the next section
 56begins. Each variable must be in a section, and have the form
 57'name = value', for example:
 58
 59	[section]
 60		name1 = value1
 61		name2 = value2
 62
 63Section names are case sensitive and can contain any characters except
 64newline (double quote `"` and backslash have to be escaped as `\"` and `\\`,
 65respectively). Section headers can't span multiple lines.
 66
 67Example
 68~~~~~~~
 69
 70Given a $HOME/.perfconfig like this:
 71
 72#
 73# This is the config file, and
 74# a '#' and ';' character indicates a comment
 75#
 76
 77	[colors]
 78		# Color variables
 79		top = red, default
 80		medium = green, default
 81		normal = lightgray, default
 82		selected = white, lightgray
 83		jump_arrows = blue, default
 84		addr = magenta, default
 85		root = white, blue
 86
 87	[tui]
 88		# Defaults if linked with libslang
 89		report = on
 90		annotate = on
 91		top = on
 92
 93	[buildid]
 94		# Default, disable using /dev/null
 95		dir = ~/.debug
 96
 97	[annotate]
 98		# Defaults
 99		hide_src_code = false
100		use_offset = true
101		jump_arrows = true
102		show_nr_jumps = false
103
104	[help]
105		# Format can be man, info, web or html
106		format = man
107		autocorrect = 0
108
109	[ui]
110		show-headers = true
111
112	[call-graph]
113		# fp (framepointer), dwarf
114		record-mode = fp
115		print-type = graph
116		order = caller
117		sort-key = function
118
119	[report]
120		# Defaults
121		sort_order = comm,dso,symbol
122		percent-limit = 0
123		queue-size = 0
124		children = true
125		group = true
126
127	[llvm]
128		dump-obj = true
129		clang-opt = -g
130
131You can hide source code of annotate feature setting the config to false with
132
133	% perf config annotate.hide_src_code=true
134
135If you want to add or modify several config items, you can do like
136
137	% perf config ui.show-headers=false kmem.default=slab
138
139To modify the sort order of report functionality in user config file(i.e. `~/.perfconfig`), do
140
141	% perf config --user report sort-order=srcline
142
143To change colors of selected line to other foreground and background colors
144in system config file (i.e. `$(sysconf)/perfconfig`), do
145
146	% perf config --system colors.selected=yellow,green
147
148To query the record mode of call graph, do
149
150	% perf config call-graph.record-mode
151
152If you want to know multiple config key/value pairs, you can do like
153
154	% perf config report.queue-size call-graph.order report.children
155
156To query the config value of sort order of call graph in user config file (i.e. `~/.perfconfig`), do
157
158	% perf config --user call-graph.sort-order
159
160To query the config value of buildid directory in system config file (i.e. `$(sysconf)/perfconfig`), do
161
162	% perf config --system buildid.dir
163
164Variables
165~~~~~~~~~
166
167colors.*::
168	The variables for customizing the colors used in the output for the
169	'report', 'top' and 'annotate' in the TUI. They should specify the
170	foreground and background colors, separated by a comma, for example:
171
172		medium = green, lightgray
173
174	If you want to use the color configured for you terminal, just leave it
175	as 'default', for example:
176
177		medium = default, lightgray
178
179	Available colors:
180	red, yellow, green, cyan, gray, black, blue,
181	white, default, magenta, lightgray
182
183	colors.top::
184		'top' means a overhead percentage which is more than 5%.
185		And values of this variable specify percentage colors.
186		Basic key values are foreground-color 'red' and
187		background-color 'default'.
188	colors.medium::
189		'medium' means a overhead percentage which has more than 0.5%.
190		Default values are 'green' and 'default'.
191	colors.normal::
192		'normal' means the rest of overhead percentages
193		except 'top', 'medium', 'selected'.
194		Default values are 'lightgray' and 'default'.
195	colors.selected::
196		This selects the colors for the current entry in a list of entries
197		from sub-commands (top, report, annotate).
198		Default values are 'black' and 'lightgray'.
199	colors.jump_arrows::
200		Colors for jump arrows on assembly code listings
201		such as 'jns', 'jmp', 'jane', etc.
202		Default values are 'blue', 'default'.
203	colors.addr::
204		This selects colors for addresses from 'annotate'.
205		Default values are 'magenta', 'default'.
206	colors.root::
207		Colors for headers in the output of a sub-commands (top, report).
208		Default values are 'white', 'blue'.
209
210core.*::
211	core.proc-map-timeout::
212		Sets a timeout (in milliseconds) for parsing /proc/<pid>/maps files.
213		Can be overridden by the --proc-map-timeout option on supported
214		subcommands. The default timeout is 500ms.
215
216tui.*, gtk.*::
217	Subcommands that can be configured here are 'top', 'report' and 'annotate'.
218	These values are booleans, for example:
219
220	[tui]
221		top = true
222
223	will make the TUI be the default for the 'top' subcommand. Those will be
224	available if the required libs were detected at tool build time.
225
226buildid.*::
227	buildid.dir::
228		Each executable and shared library in modern distributions comes with a
229		content based identifier that, if available, will be inserted in a
230		'perf.data' file header to, at analysis time find what is needed to do
231		symbol resolution, code annotation, etc.
232
233		The recording tools also stores a hard link or copy in a per-user
234		directory, $HOME/.debug/, of binaries, shared libraries, /proc/kallsyms
235		and /proc/kcore files to be used at analysis time.
236
237		The buildid.dir variable can be used to either change this directory
238		cache location, or to disable it altogether. If you want to disable it,
239		set buildid.dir to /dev/null. The default is $HOME/.debug
240
241annotate.*::
242	These options work only for TUI.
243	These are in control of addresses, jump function, source code
244	in lines of assembly code from a specific program.
245
246	annotate.hide_src_code::
247		If a program which is analyzed has source code,
248		this option lets 'annotate' print a list of assembly code with the source code.
249		For example, let's see a part of a program. There're four lines.
250		If this option is 'true', they can be printed
251		without source code from a program as below.
252
253		│        push   %rbp
254		│        mov    %rsp,%rbp
255		│        sub    $0x10,%rsp
256		│        mov    (%rdi),%rdx
257
258		But if this option is 'false', source code of the part
259		can be also printed as below. Default is 'false'.
260
261		│      struct rb_node *rb_next(const struct rb_node *node)
262		│      {
263		│        push   %rbp
264		│        mov    %rsp,%rbp
265		│        sub    $0x10,%rsp
266		│              struct rb_node *parent;
267268		│              if (RB_EMPTY_NODE(node))
269		│        mov    (%rdi),%rdx
270		│              return n;
271
 
 
272        annotate.use_offset::
273		Basing on a first address of a loaded function, offset can be used.
274		Instead of using original addresses of assembly code,
275		addresses subtracted from a base address can be printed.
276		Let's illustrate an example.
277		If a base address is 0XFFFFFFFF81624d50 as below,
278
279		ffffffff81624d50 <load0>
280
281		an address on assembly code has a specific absolute address as below
282
283		ffffffff816250b8:│  mov    0x8(%r14),%rdi
284
285		but if use_offset is 'true', an address subtracted from a base address is printed.
286		Default is true. This option is only applied to TUI.
287
288		             368:│  mov    0x8(%r14),%rdi
289
 
 
290	annotate.jump_arrows::
291		There can be jump instruction among assembly code.
292		Depending on a boolean value of jump_arrows,
293		arrows can be printed or not which represent
294		where do the instruction jump into as below.
295
296		│     ┌──jmp    1333
297		│     │  xchg   %ax,%ax
298		│1330:│  mov    %r15,%r10
299		│1333:└─→cmp    %r15,%r14
300
301		If jump_arrow is 'false', the arrows isn't printed as below.
302		Default is 'false'.
303
304		│      ↓ jmp    1333
305		│        xchg   %ax,%ax
306		│1330:   mov    %r15,%r10
307		│1333:   cmp    %r15,%r14
308
 
 
309        annotate.show_linenr::
310		When showing source code if this option is 'true',
311		line numbers are printed as below.
312
313		│1628         if (type & PERF_SAMPLE_IDENTIFIER) {
314		│     ↓ jne    508
315		│1628                 data->id = *array;
316		│1629                 array++;
317		│1630         }
318
319		However if this option is 'false', they aren't printed as below.
320		Default is 'false'.
321
322		│             if (type & PERF_SAMPLE_IDENTIFIER) {
323		│     ↓ jne    508
324		│                     data->id = *array;
325		│                     array++;
326		│             }
327
 
 
328        annotate.show_nr_jumps::
329		Let's see a part of assembly code.
330
331		│1382:   movb   $0x1,-0x270(%rbp)
332
333		If use this, the number of branches jumping to that address can be printed as below.
334		Default is 'false'.
335
336		│1 1382:   movb   $0x1,-0x270(%rbp)
337
 
 
338        annotate.show_total_period::
339		To compare two records on an instruction base, with this option
340		provided, display total number of samples that belong to a line
341		in assembly code. If this option is 'true', total periods are printed
342		instead of percent values as below.
343
344		  302 │      mov    %eax,%eax
345
346		But if this option is 'false', percent values for overhead are printed i.e.
347		Default is 'false'.
348
349		99.93 │      mov    %eax,%eax
350
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
351	annotate.offset_level::
352		Default is '1', meaning just jump targets will have offsets show right beside
353		the instruction. When set to '2' 'call' instructions will also have its offsets
354		shown, 3 or higher will show offsets for all instructions.
355
 
 
356hist.*::
357	hist.percentage::
358		This option control the way to calculate overhead of filtered entries -
359		that means the value of this option is effective only if there's a
360		filter (by comm, dso or symbol name). Suppose a following example:
361
362		       Overhead  Symbols
363		       ........  .......
364		        33.33%     foo
365		        33.33%     bar
366		        33.33%     baz
367
368	       This is an original overhead and we'll filter out the first 'foo'
369	       entry. The value of 'relative' would increase the overhead of 'bar'
370	       and 'baz' to 50.00% for each, while 'absolute' would show their
371	       current overhead (33.33%).
372
373ui.*::
374	ui.show-headers::
375		This option controls display of column headers (like 'Overhead' and 'Symbol')
376		in 'report' and 'top'. If this option is false, they are hidden.
377		This option is only applied to TUI.
378
379call-graph.*::
380	When sub-commands 'top' and 'report' work with -g/—-children
381	there're options in control of call-graph.
382
383	call-graph.record-mode::
384		The record-mode can be 'fp' (frame pointer), 'dwarf' and 'lbr'.
385		The value of 'dwarf' is effective only if perf detect needed library
386		(libunwind or a recent version of libdw).
387		'lbr' only work for cpus that support it.
 
 
388
389	call-graph.dump-size::
390		The size of stack to dump in order to do post-unwinding. Default is 8192 (byte).
391		When using dwarf into record-mode, the default size will be used if omitted.
392
393	call-graph.print-type::
394		The print-types can be graph (graph absolute), fractal (graph relative),
395		flat and folded. This option controls a way to show overhead for each callchain
396		entry. Suppose a following example.
397
398                Overhead  Symbols
399                ........  .......
400                  40.00%  foo
401                          |
402                          ---foo
403                             |
404                             |--50.00%--bar
405                             |          main
406                             |
407                              --50.00%--baz
408                                        main
409
410		This output is a 'fractal' format. The 'foo' came from 'bar' and 'baz' exactly
411		half and half so 'fractal' shows 50.00% for each
412		(meaning that it assumes 100% total overhead of 'foo').
413
414		The 'graph' uses absolute overhead value of 'foo' as total so each of
415		'bar' and 'baz' callchain will have 20.00% of overhead.
416		If 'flat' is used, single column and linear exposure of call chains.
417		'folded' mean call chains are displayed in a line, separated by semicolons.
418
419	call-graph.order::
420		This option controls print order of callchains. The default is
421		'callee' which means callee is printed at top and then followed by its
422		caller and so on. The 'caller' prints it in reverse order.
423
424		If this option is not set and report.children or top.children is
425		set to true (or the equivalent command line option is given),
426		the default value of this option is changed to 'caller' for the
427		execution of 'perf report' or 'perf top'. Other commands will
428		still default to 'callee'.
429
430	call-graph.sort-key::
431		The callchains are merged if they contain same information.
432		The sort-key option determines a way to compare the callchains.
433		A value of 'sort-key' can be 'function' or 'address'.
434		The default is 'function'.
435
436	call-graph.threshold::
437		When there're many callchains it'd print tons of lines. So perf omits
438		small callchains under a certain overhead (threshold) and this option
439		control the threshold. Default is 0.5 (%). The overhead is calculated
440		by value depends on call-graph.print-type.
441
442	call-graph.print-limit::
443		This is a maximum number of lines of callchain printed for a single
444		histogram entry. Default is 0 which means no limitation.
445
446report.*::
447	report.sort_order::
448		Allows changing the default sort order from "comm,dso,symbol" to
449		some other default, for instance "sym,dso" may be more fitting for
450		kernel developers.
451	report.percent-limit::
452		This one is mostly the same as call-graph.threshold but works for
453		histogram entries. Entries having an overhead lower than this
454		percentage will not be printed. Default is '0'. If percent-limit
455		is '10', only entries which have more than 10% of overhead will be
456		printed.
457
458	report.queue-size::
459		This option sets up the maximum allocation size of the internal
460		event queue for ordering events. Default is 0, meaning no limit.
461
462	report.children::
463		'Children' means functions called from another function.
464		If this option is true, 'perf report' cumulates callchains of children
465		and show (accumulated) total overhead as well as 'Self' overhead.
466		Please refer to the 'perf report' manual. The default is 'true'.
467
468	report.group::
469		This option is to show event group information together.
470		Example output with this turned on, notice that there is one column
471		per event in the group, ref-cycles and cycles:
472
473		# group: {ref-cycles,cycles}
474		# ========
475		#
476		# Samples: 7K of event 'anon group { ref-cycles, cycles }'
477		# Event count (approx.): 6876107743
478		#
479		#         Overhead  Command      Shared Object               Symbol
480		# ................  .......  .................  ...................
481		#
482		    99.84%  99.76%  noploop  noploop            [.] main
483		     0.07%   0.00%  noploop  ld-2.15.so         [.] strcmp
484		     0.03%   0.00%  noploop  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] timerqueue_del
485
486top.*::
487	top.children::
488		Same as 'report.children'. So if it is enabled, the output of 'top'
489		command will have 'Children' overhead column as well as 'Self' overhead
490		column by default.
491		The default is 'true'.
492
 
 
 
 
 
 
493man.*::
494	man.viewer::
495		This option can assign a tool to view manual pages when 'help'
496		subcommand was invoked. Supported tools are 'man', 'woman'
497		(with emacs client) and 'konqueror'. Default is 'man'.
498
499		New man viewer tool can be also added using 'man.<tool>.cmd'
500		or use different path using 'man.<tool>.path' config option.
501
502pager.*::
503	pager.<subcommand>::
504		When the subcommand is run on stdio, determine whether it uses
505		pager or not based on this value. Default is 'unspecified'.
506
507kmem.*::
508	kmem.default::
509		This option decides which allocator is to be analyzed if neither
510		'--slab' nor '--page' option is used. Default is 'slab'.
511
512record.*::
513	record.build-id::
514		This option can be 'cache', 'no-cache' or 'skip'.
515		'cache' is to post-process data and save/update the binaries into
516		the build-id cache (in ~/.debug). This is the default.
517		But if this option is 'no-cache', it will not update the build-id cache.
518		'skip' skips post-processing and does not update the cache.
519
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
520diff.*::
521	diff.order::
522		This option sets the number of columns to sort the result.
523		The default is 0, which means sorting by baseline.
524		Setting it to 1 will sort the result by delta (or other
525		compute method selected).
526
527	diff.compute::
528		This options sets the method for computing the diff result.
529		Possible values are 'delta', 'delta-abs', 'ratio' and
530		'wdiff'.  Default is 'delta'.
531
532trace.*::
533	trace.add_events::
534		Allows adding a set of events to add to the ones specified
535		by the user, or use as a default one if none was specified.
536		The initial use case is to add augmented_raw_syscalls.o to
537		activate the 'perf trace' logic that looks for syscall
538		pointer contents after the normal tracepoint payload.
539
540	trace.args_alignment::
541		Number of columns to align the argument list, default is 70,
542		use 40 for the strace default, zero to no alignment.
543
544	trace.no_inherit::
545		Do not follow children threads.
546
547	trace.show_arg_names::
548		Should syscall argument names be printed? If not then trace.show_zeros
549		will be set.
550
551	trace.show_duration::
552		Show syscall duration.
553
554	trace.show_prefix::
555		If set to 'yes' will show common string prefixes in tables. The default
556		is to remove the common prefix in things like "MAP_SHARED", showing just "SHARED".
557
558	trace.show_timestamp::
559		Show syscall start timestamp.
560
561	trace.show_zeros::
562		Do not suppress syscall arguments that are equal to zero.
563
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
564llvm.*::
565	llvm.clang-path::
566		Path to clang. If omit, search it from $PATH.
567
568	llvm.clang-bpf-cmd-template::
569		Cmdline template. Below lines show its default value. Environment
570		variable is used to pass options.
571		"$CLANG_EXEC -D__KERNEL__ -D__NR_CPUS__=$NR_CPUS "\
572		"-DLINUX_VERSION_CODE=$LINUX_VERSION_CODE "	\
573		"$CLANG_OPTIONS $PERF_BPF_INC_OPTIONS $KERNEL_INC_OPTIONS " \
574		"-Wno-unused-value -Wno-pointer-sign "		\
575		"-working-directory $WORKING_DIR "		\
576		"-c \"$CLANG_SOURCE\" -target bpf $CLANG_EMIT_LLVM -O2 -o - $LLVM_OPTIONS_PIPE"
577
578	llvm.clang-opt::
579		Options passed to clang.
580
581	llvm.kbuild-dir::
582		kbuild directory. If not set, use /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build.
583		If set to "" deliberately, skip kernel header auto-detector.
584
585	llvm.kbuild-opts::
586		Options passed to 'make' when detecting kernel header options.
587
588	llvm.dump-obj::
589		Enable perf dump BPF object files compiled by LLVM.
590
591	llvm.opts::
592		Options passed to llc.
593
594samples.*::
595
596	samples.context::
597		Define how many ns worth of time to show
598		around samples in perf report sample context browser.
599
600scripts.*::
601
602	Any option defines a script that is added to the scripts menu
603	in the interactive perf browser and whose output is displayed.
604	The name of the option is the name, the value is a script command line.
605	The script gets the same options passed as a full perf script,
606	in particular -i perfdata file, --cpu, --tid
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
607
608SEE ALSO
609--------
610linkperf:perf[1]
v5.9
  1perf-config(1)
  2==============
  3
  4NAME
  5----
  6perf-config - Get and set variables in a configuration file.
  7
  8SYNOPSIS
  9--------
 10[verse]
 11'perf config' [<file-option>] [section.name[=value] ...]
 12or
 13'perf config' [<file-option>] -l | --list
 14
 15DESCRIPTION
 16-----------
 17You can manage variables in a configuration file with this command.
 18
 19OPTIONS
 20-------
 21
 22-l::
 23--list::
 24	Show current config variables, name and value, for all sections.
 25
 26--user::
 27	For writing and reading options: write to user
 28	'$HOME/.perfconfig' file or read it.
 29
 30--system::
 31	For writing and reading options: write to system-wide
 32	'$(sysconfdir)/perfconfig' or read it.
 33
 34CONFIGURATION FILE
 35------------------
 36
 37The perf configuration file contains many variables to change various
 38aspects of each of its tools, including output, disk usage, etc.
 39The '$HOME/.perfconfig' file is used to store a per-user configuration.
 40The file '$(sysconfdir)/perfconfig' can be used to
 41store a system-wide default configuration.
 42
 43One an disable reading config files by setting the PERF_CONFIG environment
 44variable to /dev/null, or provide an alternate config file by setting that
 45variable.
 46
 47When reading or writing, the values are read from the system and user
 48configuration files by default, and options '--system' and '--user'
 49can be used to tell the command to read from or write to only that location.
 50
 51Syntax
 52~~~~~~
 53
 54The file consist of sections. A section starts with its name
 55surrounded by square brackets and continues till the next section
 56begins. Each variable must be in a section, and have the form
 57'name = value', for example:
 58
 59	[section]
 60		name1 = value1
 61		name2 = value2
 62
 63Section names are case sensitive and can contain any characters except
 64newline (double quote `"` and backslash have to be escaped as `\"` and `\\`,
 65respectively). Section headers can't span multiple lines.
 66
 67Example
 68~~~~~~~
 69
 70Given a $HOME/.perfconfig like this:
 71
 72#
 73# This is the config file, and
 74# a '#' and ';' character indicates a comment
 75#
 76
 77	[colors]
 78		# Color variables
 79		top = red, default
 80		medium = green, default
 81		normal = lightgray, default
 82		selected = white, lightgray
 83		jump_arrows = blue, default
 84		addr = magenta, default
 85		root = white, blue
 86
 87	[tui]
 88		# Defaults if linked with libslang
 89		report = on
 90		annotate = on
 91		top = on
 92
 93	[buildid]
 94		# Default, disable using /dev/null
 95		dir = ~/.debug
 96
 97	[annotate]
 98		# Defaults
 99		hide_src_code = false
100		use_offset = true
101		jump_arrows = true
102		show_nr_jumps = false
103
104	[help]
105		# Format can be man, info, web or html
106		format = man
107		autocorrect = 0
108
109	[ui]
110		show-headers = true
111
112	[call-graph]
113		# fp (framepointer), dwarf
114		record-mode = fp
115		print-type = graph
116		order = caller
117		sort-key = function
118
119	[report]
120		# Defaults
121		sort_order = comm,dso,symbol
122		percent-limit = 0
123		queue-size = 0
124		children = true
125		group = true
126
127	[llvm]
128		dump-obj = true
129		clang-opt = -g
130
131You can hide source code of annotate feature setting the config to false with
132
133	% perf config annotate.hide_src_code=true
134
135If you want to add or modify several config items, you can do like
136
137	% perf config ui.show-headers=false kmem.default=slab
138
139To modify the sort order of report functionality in user config file(i.e. `~/.perfconfig`), do
140
141	% perf config --user report sort-order=srcline
142
143To change colors of selected line to other foreground and background colors
144in system config file (i.e. `$(sysconf)/perfconfig`), do
145
146	% perf config --system colors.selected=yellow,green
147
148To query the record mode of call graph, do
149
150	% perf config call-graph.record-mode
151
152If you want to know multiple config key/value pairs, you can do like
153
154	% perf config report.queue-size call-graph.order report.children
155
156To query the config value of sort order of call graph in user config file (i.e. `~/.perfconfig`), do
157
158	% perf config --user call-graph.sort-order
159
160To query the config value of buildid directory in system config file (i.e. `$(sysconf)/perfconfig`), do
161
162	% perf config --system buildid.dir
163
164Variables
165~~~~~~~~~
166
167colors.*::
168	The variables for customizing the colors used in the output for the
169	'report', 'top' and 'annotate' in the TUI. They should specify the
170	foreground and background colors, separated by a comma, for example:
171
172		medium = green, lightgray
173
174	If you want to use the color configured for you terminal, just leave it
175	as 'default', for example:
176
177		medium = default, lightgray
178
179	Available colors:
180	red, yellow, green, cyan, gray, black, blue,
181	white, default, magenta, lightgray
182
183	colors.top::
184		'top' means a overhead percentage which is more than 5%.
185		And values of this variable specify percentage colors.
186		Basic key values are foreground-color 'red' and
187		background-color 'default'.
188	colors.medium::
189		'medium' means a overhead percentage which has more than 0.5%.
190		Default values are 'green' and 'default'.
191	colors.normal::
192		'normal' means the rest of overhead percentages
193		except 'top', 'medium', 'selected'.
194		Default values are 'lightgray' and 'default'.
195	colors.selected::
196		This selects the colors for the current entry in a list of entries
197		from sub-commands (top, report, annotate).
198		Default values are 'black' and 'lightgray'.
199	colors.jump_arrows::
200		Colors for jump arrows on assembly code listings
201		such as 'jns', 'jmp', 'jane', etc.
202		Default values are 'blue', 'default'.
203	colors.addr::
204		This selects colors for addresses from 'annotate'.
205		Default values are 'magenta', 'default'.
206	colors.root::
207		Colors for headers in the output of a sub-commands (top, report).
208		Default values are 'white', 'blue'.
209
210core.*::
211	core.proc-map-timeout::
212		Sets a timeout (in milliseconds) for parsing /proc/<pid>/maps files.
213		Can be overridden by the --proc-map-timeout option on supported
214		subcommands. The default timeout is 500ms.
215
216tui.*, gtk.*::
217	Subcommands that can be configured here are 'top', 'report' and 'annotate'.
218	These values are booleans, for example:
219
220	[tui]
221		top = true
222
223	will make the TUI be the default for the 'top' subcommand. Those will be
224	available if the required libs were detected at tool build time.
225
226buildid.*::
227	buildid.dir::
228		Each executable and shared library in modern distributions comes with a
229		content based identifier that, if available, will be inserted in a
230		'perf.data' file header to, at analysis time find what is needed to do
231		symbol resolution, code annotation, etc.
232
233		The recording tools also stores a hard link or copy in a per-user
234		directory, $HOME/.debug/, of binaries, shared libraries, /proc/kallsyms
235		and /proc/kcore files to be used at analysis time.
236
237		The buildid.dir variable can be used to either change this directory
238		cache location, or to disable it altogether. If you want to disable it,
239		set buildid.dir to /dev/null. The default is $HOME/.debug
240
241annotate.*::
 
242	These are in control of addresses, jump function, source code
243	in lines of assembly code from a specific program.
244
245	annotate.hide_src_code::
246		If a program which is analyzed has source code,
247		this option lets 'annotate' print a list of assembly code with the source code.
248		For example, let's see a part of a program. There're four lines.
249		If this option is 'true', they can be printed
250		without source code from a program as below.
251
252		│        push   %rbp
253		│        mov    %rsp,%rbp
254		│        sub    $0x10,%rsp
255		│        mov    (%rdi),%rdx
256
257		But if this option is 'false', source code of the part
258		can be also printed as below. Default is 'false'.
259
260		│      struct rb_node *rb_next(const struct rb_node *node)
261		│      {
262		│        push   %rbp
263		│        mov    %rsp,%rbp
264		│        sub    $0x10,%rsp
265		│              struct rb_node *parent;
266267		│              if (RB_EMPTY_NODE(node))
268		│        mov    (%rdi),%rdx
269		│              return n;
270
271		This option works with tui, stdio2 browsers.
272
273        annotate.use_offset::
274		Basing on a first address of a loaded function, offset can be used.
275		Instead of using original addresses of assembly code,
276		addresses subtracted from a base address can be printed.
277		Let's illustrate an example.
278		If a base address is 0XFFFFFFFF81624d50 as below,
279
280		ffffffff81624d50 <load0>
281
282		an address on assembly code has a specific absolute address as below
283
284		ffffffff816250b8:│  mov    0x8(%r14),%rdi
285
286		but if use_offset is 'true', an address subtracted from a base address is printed.
287		Default is true. This option is only applied to TUI.
288
289		             368:│  mov    0x8(%r14),%rdi
290
291		This option works with tui, stdio2 browsers.
292
293	annotate.jump_arrows::
294		There can be jump instruction among assembly code.
295		Depending on a boolean value of jump_arrows,
296		arrows can be printed or not which represent
297		where do the instruction jump into as below.
298
299		│     ┌──jmp    1333
300		│     │  xchg   %ax,%ax
301		│1330:│  mov    %r15,%r10
302		│1333:└─→cmp    %r15,%r14
303
304		If jump_arrow is 'false', the arrows isn't printed as below.
305		Default is 'false'.
306
307		│      ↓ jmp    1333
308		│        xchg   %ax,%ax
309		│1330:   mov    %r15,%r10
310		│1333:   cmp    %r15,%r14
311
312		This option works with tui browser.
313
314        annotate.show_linenr::
315		When showing source code if this option is 'true',
316		line numbers are printed as below.
317
318		│1628         if (type & PERF_SAMPLE_IDENTIFIER) {
319		│     ↓ jne    508
320		│1628                 data->id = *array;
321		│1629                 array++;
322		│1630         }
323
324		However if this option is 'false', they aren't printed as below.
325		Default is 'false'.
326
327		│             if (type & PERF_SAMPLE_IDENTIFIER) {
328		│     ↓ jne    508
329		│                     data->id = *array;
330		│                     array++;
331		│             }
332
333		This option works with tui, stdio2 browsers.
334
335        annotate.show_nr_jumps::
336		Let's see a part of assembly code.
337
338		│1382:   movb   $0x1,-0x270(%rbp)
339
340		If use this, the number of branches jumping to that address can be printed as below.
341		Default is 'false'.
342
343		│1 1382:   movb   $0x1,-0x270(%rbp)
344
345		This option works with tui, stdio2 browsers.
346
347        annotate.show_total_period::
348		To compare two records on an instruction base, with this option
349		provided, display total number of samples that belong to a line
350		in assembly code. If this option is 'true', total periods are printed
351		instead of percent values as below.
352
353		  302 │      mov    %eax,%eax
354
355		But if this option is 'false', percent values for overhead are printed i.e.
356		Default is 'false'.
357
358		99.93 │      mov    %eax,%eax
359
360		This option works with tui, stdio2, stdio browsers.
361
362	annotate.show_nr_samples::
363		By default perf annotate shows percentage of samples. This option
364		can be used to print absolute number of samples. Ex, when set as
365		false:
366
367		Percent│
368		 74.03 │      mov    %fs:0x28,%rax
369
370		When set as true:
371
372		Samples│
373		     6 │      mov    %fs:0x28,%rax
374
375		This option works with tui, stdio2, stdio browsers.
376
377	annotate.offset_level::
378		Default is '1', meaning just jump targets will have offsets show right beside
379		the instruction. When set to '2' 'call' instructions will also have its offsets
380		shown, 3 or higher will show offsets for all instructions.
381
382		This option works with tui, stdio2 browsers.
383
384hist.*::
385	hist.percentage::
386		This option control the way to calculate overhead of filtered entries -
387		that means the value of this option is effective only if there's a
388		filter (by comm, dso or symbol name). Suppose a following example:
389
390		       Overhead  Symbols
391		       ........  .......
392		        33.33%     foo
393		        33.33%     bar
394		        33.33%     baz
395
396	       This is an original overhead and we'll filter out the first 'foo'
397	       entry. The value of 'relative' would increase the overhead of 'bar'
398	       and 'baz' to 50.00% for each, while 'absolute' would show their
399	       current overhead (33.33%).
400
401ui.*::
402	ui.show-headers::
403		This option controls display of column headers (like 'Overhead' and 'Symbol')
404		in 'report' and 'top'. If this option is false, they are hidden.
405		This option is only applied to TUI.
406
407call-graph.*::
408	The following controls the handling of call-graphs (obtained via the
409	-g/--call-graph options).
410
411	call-graph.record-mode::
412		The mode for user space can be 'fp' (frame pointer), 'dwarf'
413		and 'lbr'.  The value 'dwarf' is effective only if libunwind
414		(or a recent version of libdw) is present on the system;
415		the value 'lbr' only works for certain cpus. The method for
416		kernel space is controlled not by this option but by the
417		kernel config (CONFIG_UNWINDER_*).
418
419	call-graph.dump-size::
420		The size of stack to dump in order to do post-unwinding. Default is 8192 (byte).
421		When using dwarf into record-mode, the default size will be used if omitted.
422
423	call-graph.print-type::
424		The print-types can be graph (graph absolute), fractal (graph relative),
425		flat and folded. This option controls a way to show overhead for each callchain
426		entry. Suppose a following example.
427
428                Overhead  Symbols
429                ........  .......
430                  40.00%  foo
431                          |
432                          ---foo
433                             |
434                             |--50.00%--bar
435                             |          main
436                             |
437                              --50.00%--baz
438                                        main
439
440		This output is a 'fractal' format. The 'foo' came from 'bar' and 'baz' exactly
441		half and half so 'fractal' shows 50.00% for each
442		(meaning that it assumes 100% total overhead of 'foo').
443
444		The 'graph' uses absolute overhead value of 'foo' as total so each of
445		'bar' and 'baz' callchain will have 20.00% of overhead.
446		If 'flat' is used, single column and linear exposure of call chains.
447		'folded' mean call chains are displayed in a line, separated by semicolons.
448
449	call-graph.order::
450		This option controls print order of callchains. The default is
451		'callee' which means callee is printed at top and then followed by its
452		caller and so on. The 'caller' prints it in reverse order.
453
454		If this option is not set and report.children or top.children is
455		set to true (or the equivalent command line option is given),
456		the default value of this option is changed to 'caller' for the
457		execution of 'perf report' or 'perf top'. Other commands will
458		still default to 'callee'.
459
460	call-graph.sort-key::
461		The callchains are merged if they contain same information.
462		The sort-key option determines a way to compare the callchains.
463		A value of 'sort-key' can be 'function' or 'address'.
464		The default is 'function'.
465
466	call-graph.threshold::
467		When there're many callchains it'd print tons of lines. So perf omits
468		small callchains under a certain overhead (threshold) and this option
469		control the threshold. Default is 0.5 (%). The overhead is calculated
470		by value depends on call-graph.print-type.
471
472	call-graph.print-limit::
473		This is a maximum number of lines of callchain printed for a single
474		histogram entry. Default is 0 which means no limitation.
475
476report.*::
477	report.sort_order::
478		Allows changing the default sort order from "comm,dso,symbol" to
479		some other default, for instance "sym,dso" may be more fitting for
480		kernel developers.
481	report.percent-limit::
482		This one is mostly the same as call-graph.threshold but works for
483		histogram entries. Entries having an overhead lower than this
484		percentage will not be printed. Default is '0'. If percent-limit
485		is '10', only entries which have more than 10% of overhead will be
486		printed.
487
488	report.queue-size::
489		This option sets up the maximum allocation size of the internal
490		event queue for ordering events. Default is 0, meaning no limit.
491
492	report.children::
493		'Children' means functions called from another function.
494		If this option is true, 'perf report' cumulates callchains of children
495		and show (accumulated) total overhead as well as 'Self' overhead.
496		Please refer to the 'perf report' manual. The default is 'true'.
497
498	report.group::
499		This option is to show event group information together.
500		Example output with this turned on, notice that there is one column
501		per event in the group, ref-cycles and cycles:
502
503		# group: {ref-cycles,cycles}
504		# ========
505		#
506		# Samples: 7K of event 'anon group { ref-cycles, cycles }'
507		# Event count (approx.): 6876107743
508		#
509		#         Overhead  Command      Shared Object               Symbol
510		# ................  .......  .................  ...................
511		#
512		    99.84%  99.76%  noploop  noploop            [.] main
513		     0.07%   0.00%  noploop  ld-2.15.so         [.] strcmp
514		     0.03%   0.00%  noploop  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] timerqueue_del
515
516top.*::
517	top.children::
518		Same as 'report.children'. So if it is enabled, the output of 'top'
519		command will have 'Children' overhead column as well as 'Self' overhead
520		column by default.
521		The default is 'true'.
522
523	top.call-graph::
524		This is identical to 'call-graph.record-mode', except it is
525		applicable only for 'top' subcommand. This option ONLY setup
526		the unwind method. To enable 'perf top' to actually use it,
527		the command line option -g must be specified.
528
529man.*::
530	man.viewer::
531		This option can assign a tool to view manual pages when 'help'
532		subcommand was invoked. Supported tools are 'man', 'woman'
533		(with emacs client) and 'konqueror'. Default is 'man'.
534
535		New man viewer tool can be also added using 'man.<tool>.cmd'
536		or use different path using 'man.<tool>.path' config option.
537
538pager.*::
539	pager.<subcommand>::
540		When the subcommand is run on stdio, determine whether it uses
541		pager or not based on this value. Default is 'unspecified'.
542
543kmem.*::
544	kmem.default::
545		This option decides which allocator is to be analyzed if neither
546		'--slab' nor '--page' option is used. Default is 'slab'.
547
548record.*::
549	record.build-id::
550		This option can be 'cache', 'no-cache' or 'skip'.
551		'cache' is to post-process data and save/update the binaries into
552		the build-id cache (in ~/.debug). This is the default.
553		But if this option is 'no-cache', it will not update the build-id cache.
554		'skip' skips post-processing and does not update the cache.
555
556	record.call-graph::
557		This is identical to 'call-graph.record-mode', except it is
558		applicable only for 'record' subcommand. This option ONLY setup
559		the unwind method. To enable 'perf record' to actually use it,
560		the command line option -g must be specified.
561
562	record.aio::
563		Use 'n' control blocks in asynchronous (Posix AIO) trace writing
564		mode ('n' default: 1, max: 4).
565
566diff.*::
567	diff.order::
568		This option sets the number of columns to sort the result.
569		The default is 0, which means sorting by baseline.
570		Setting it to 1 will sort the result by delta (or other
571		compute method selected).
572
573	diff.compute::
574		This options sets the method for computing the diff result.
575		Possible values are 'delta', 'delta-abs', 'ratio' and
576		'wdiff'.  Default is 'delta'.
577
578trace.*::
579	trace.add_events::
580		Allows adding a set of events to add to the ones specified
581		by the user, or use as a default one if none was specified.
582		The initial use case is to add augmented_raw_syscalls.o to
583		activate the 'perf trace' logic that looks for syscall
584		pointer contents after the normal tracepoint payload.
585
586	trace.args_alignment::
587		Number of columns to align the argument list, default is 70,
588		use 40 for the strace default, zero to no alignment.
589
590	trace.no_inherit::
591		Do not follow children threads.
592
593	trace.show_arg_names::
594		Should syscall argument names be printed? If not then trace.show_zeros
595		will be set.
596
597	trace.show_duration::
598		Show syscall duration.
599
600	trace.show_prefix::
601		If set to 'yes' will show common string prefixes in tables. The default
602		is to remove the common prefix in things like "MAP_SHARED", showing just "SHARED".
603
604	trace.show_timestamp::
605		Show syscall start timestamp.
606
607	trace.show_zeros::
608		Do not suppress syscall arguments that are equal to zero.
609
610	trace.tracepoint_beautifiers::
611		Use "libtraceevent" to use that library to augment the tracepoint arguments,
612		"libbeauty", the default, to use the same argument beautifiers used in the
613		strace-like sys_enter+sys_exit lines.
614
615ftrace.*::
616	ftrace.tracer::
617		Can be used to select the default tracer when neither -G nor
618		-F option is not specified. Possible values are 'function' and
619		'function_graph'.
620
621llvm.*::
622	llvm.clang-path::
623		Path to clang. If omit, search it from $PATH.
624
625	llvm.clang-bpf-cmd-template::
626		Cmdline template. Below lines show its default value. Environment
627		variable is used to pass options.
628		"$CLANG_EXEC -D__KERNEL__ -D__NR_CPUS__=$NR_CPUS "\
629		"-DLINUX_VERSION_CODE=$LINUX_VERSION_CODE "	\
630		"$CLANG_OPTIONS $PERF_BPF_INC_OPTIONS $KERNEL_INC_OPTIONS " \
631		"-Wno-unused-value -Wno-pointer-sign "		\
632		"-working-directory $WORKING_DIR "		\
633		"-c \"$CLANG_SOURCE\" -target bpf $CLANG_EMIT_LLVM -O2 -o - $LLVM_OPTIONS_PIPE"
634
635	llvm.clang-opt::
636		Options passed to clang.
637
638	llvm.kbuild-dir::
639		kbuild directory. If not set, use /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build.
640		If set to "" deliberately, skip kernel header auto-detector.
641
642	llvm.kbuild-opts::
643		Options passed to 'make' when detecting kernel header options.
644
645	llvm.dump-obj::
646		Enable perf dump BPF object files compiled by LLVM.
647
648	llvm.opts::
649		Options passed to llc.
650
651samples.*::
652
653	samples.context::
654		Define how many ns worth of time to show
655		around samples in perf report sample context browser.
656
657scripts.*::
658
659	Any option defines a script that is added to the scripts menu
660	in the interactive perf browser and whose output is displayed.
661	The name of the option is the name, the value is a script command line.
662	The script gets the same options passed as a full perf script,
663	in particular -i perfdata file, --cpu, --tid
664
665convert.*::
666
667	convert.queue-size::
668		Limit the size of ordered_events queue, so we could control
669		allocation size of perf data files without proper finished
670		round events.
671stat.*::
672
673	stat.big-num::
674		(boolean) Change the default for "--big-num". To make
675		"--no-big-num" the default, set "stat.big-num=false".
676
677intel-pt.*::
678
679	intel-pt.cache-divisor::
680
681	intel-pt.mispred-all::
682		If set, Intel PT decoder will set the mispred flag on all
683		branches.
684
685auxtrace.*::
686
687	auxtrace.dumpdir::
688		s390 only. The directory to save the auxiliary trace buffer
689		can be changed using this option. Ex, auxtrace.dumpdir=/tmp.
690		If the directory does not exist or has the wrong file type,
691		the current directory is used.
692
693SEE ALSO
694--------
695linkperf:perf[1]