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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-09-07 08:19:51 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-09-07 08:19:51 +0200
commita1922ed661ab2c1637d0b10cde933bd9cd33d965 (patch)
tree0f1777542b385ebefd30b3586d830fd8ed6fda5b /tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt
parent75e33751ca8bbb72dd6f1a74d2810ddc8cbe4bdf (diff)
parentd28daf923ac5e4a0d7cecebae56f3e339189366b (diff)
Merge branch 'tracing/core' into tracing/hw-breakpoints
Conflicts: arch/Kconfig kernel/trace/trace.h Merge reason: resolve the conflicts, plus adopt to the new ring-buffer APIs. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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@@ -29,13 +29,67 @@ OPTIONS
Select the PMU event. Selection can be a symbolic event name
(use 'perf list' to list all events) or a raw PMU
event (eventsel+umask) in the form of rNNN where NNN is a
- hexadecimal event descriptor.
+ hexadecimal event descriptor.
-a::
- system-wide collection
+ System-wide collection.
-l::
- scale counter values
+ Scale counter values.
+
+-p::
+--pid=::
+ Record events on existing pid.
+
+-r::
+--realtime=::
+ Collect data with this RT SCHED_FIFO priority.
+-A::
+--append::
+ Append to the output file to do incremental profiling.
+
+-f::
+--force::
+ Overwrite existing data file.
+
+-c::
+--count=::
+ Event period to sample.
+
+-o::
+--output=::
+ Output file name.
+
+-i::
+--inherit::
+ Child tasks inherit counters.
+-F::
+--freq=::
+ Profile at this frequency.
+
+-m::
+--mmap-pages=::
+ Number of mmap data pages.
+
+-g::
+--call-graph::
+ Do call-graph (stack chain/backtrace) recording.
+
+-v::
+--verbose::
+ Be more verbose (show counter open errors, etc).
+
+-s::
+--stat::
+ Per thread counts.
+
+-d::
+--data::
+ Sample addresses.
+
+-n::
+--no-samples::
+ Don't sample.
SEE ALSO
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