# HOW TO EDIT THIS FILE: # The "handy ruler" below makes it easier to edit a package description. # Line up the first '|' above the ':' following the base package name, and # the '|' on the right side marks the last column you can put a character in. # You must make exactly 11 lines for the formatting to be correct. It's also # customary to leave one space after the ':' except on otherwise blank lines. |-----handy-ruler------------------------------------------------------| perf: perf (Linux kernel perf tools) perf: perf: perf is a userspace interface to the kernel's perf events. perf: Performance counters are CPU hardware registers that count hardware perf: events such as instructions executed, cache-misses suffered, or perf: branches mispredicted. perf: They form a basis for profiling applications to trace dynamic control perf: flow and identify hotspots. perf: perf: perf: