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[PATCH RESEND v4 7/8] perf report: Update document for SIMD flags

From: Leo Yan <leo.yan@arm.com>
Date: 2026-01-06 12:08:28
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Subsystem: performance events subsystem, the rest · Maintainers: Peter Zijlstra, Ingo Molnar, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo, Namhyung Kim, Linus Torvalds

Update SIMD architecture and predicate flags.

Reviewed-by: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Leo Yan <leo.yan@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 acef3ff4178eff66e8f876ae16cdac7b1387f07b..f361081a65dbe9cead539c7cb81d6ed86eb0acc6 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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