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authorLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com>2011-03-23 02:34:54 -0400
committerLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com>2011-03-23 02:34:54 -0400
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Merge branch 'linus' into release
Conflicts: arch/x86/kernel/acpi/sleep.c Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
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@@ -83,6 +83,17 @@ This option is only valid in system-wide mode.
print counts using a CSV-style output to make it easy to import directly into
spreadsheets. Columns are separated by the string specified in SEP.
+-G name::
+--cgroup name::
+monitor only in the container (cgroup) called "name". This option is available only
+in per-cpu mode. The cgroup filesystem must be mounted. All threads belonging to
+container "name" are monitored when they run on the monitored CPUs. Multiple cgroups
+can be provided. Each cgroup is applied to the corresponding event, i.e., first cgroup
+to first event, second cgroup to second event and so on. It is possible to provide
+an empty cgroup (monitor all the time) using, e.g., -G foo,,bar. Cgroups must have
+corresponding events, i.e., they always refer to events defined earlier on the command
+line.
+
EXAMPLES
--------