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Add mem-mode sorting types and mem-mode itself to perf-report documentation.

Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1400526833-141779-5-git-send-email-dzickus@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
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Don Zickus authored and Jiri Olsa committed Jun 9, 2014
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By default, every sort keys not specified in -F will be appended
automatically.

If --mem-mode option is used, following sort keys are also available
(incompatible with --branch-stack):
symbol_daddr, dso_daddr, locked, tlb, mem, snoop.

- symbol_daddr: name of data symbol being executed on at the time of sample
- dso_daddr: name of library or module containing the data being executed
on at the time of sample
- locked: whether the bus was locked at the time of sample
- tlb: type of tlb access for the data at the time of sample
- mem: type of memory access for the data at the time of sample
- snoop: type of snoop (if any) for the data at the time of sample

And default sort keys are changed to local_weight, mem, sym, dso,
symbol_daddr, dso_daddr, snoop, tlb, locked, see '--mem-mode'.

-p::
--parent=<regex>::
A regex filter to identify parent. The parent is a caller of this
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Demangle symbol names to human readable form. It's enabled by default,
disable with --no-demangle.

--mem-mode::
Use the data addresses of samples in addition to instruction addresses
to build the histograms. To generate meaningful output, the perf.data
file must have been obtained using perf record -d -W and using a
special event -e cpu/mem-loads/ or -e cpu/mem-stores/. See
'perf mem' for simpler access.

--percent-limit::
Do not show entries which have an overhead under that percent.
(Default: 0).
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