[PATCH v6 3/4] perf report: Update document for SIMD flags
Leo Yan
leo.yan at arm.com
Fri Apr 10 00:37:00 PDT 2026
Update SIMD architecture and predicate flags.
Reviewed-by: James Clark <james.clark at linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <irogers at google.com>
Signed-off-by: Leo Yan <leo.yan at arm.com>
---
tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt | 5 ++++-
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt
index 52f316628e43ac9851ecaa85f706e22c26294649..22f87eaa3279653836eaaa07a358c14f2e0afa75 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt
@@ -136,7 +136,10 @@ OPTIONS
- addr: (Full) virtual address of the sampled instruction
- retire_lat: On X86, this reports pipeline stall of this instruction compared
to the previous instruction in cycles. And currently supported only on X86
- - simd: Flags describing a SIMD operation. "e" for empty Arm SVE predicate. "p" for partial Arm SVE predicate
+ - simd: Flags describing a SIMD operation. The architecture type can be Arm's
+ ASE (Advanced SIMD extension), SVE, SME. It provides an extra tag for
+ predicate: "e" for empty predicate, "p" for partial predicate, "d" for
+ predicate disabled, and "f" for full predicate.
- type: Data type of sample memory access.
- typeoff: Offset in the data type of sample memory access.
- symoff: Offset in the symbol.
--
2.34.1
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