With no options and no COMMAND given, the synopsis of the perf
command and a list of the most commonly used perf commands are
printed on the standard output.
If the option --all or -a is given, then all available commands are
printed on the standard output.
If a perf command is named, a manual page for that command is brought
up. The man program is used by default for this purpose, but this can
be overridden by other options or configuration variables.
Note that perf --help ... is identical to perf help ... because the
former is internally converted into the latter.
This page is part of the perf (Performance analysis tools for Linux
(in Linux source tree)) project. Information about the project can
be found at ⟨https://perf.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Main_Page⟩. If
you have a bug report for this manual page, send it to
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org. This page was obtained from the
project's upstream Git repository
⟨http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git⟩ on
2018-02-02. (At that time, the date of the most recent commit that
was found in the repository was 2018-02-01.) If you discover any
rendering problems in this HTML version of the page, or you believe
there is a better or more up-to-date source for the page, or you have
corrections or improvements to the information in this COLOPHON
(which is not part of the original manual page), send a mail to
man-pages@man7.org
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