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authorFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>2010-04-30 19:55:00 +0200
committerFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>2010-04-30 19:55:00 +0200
commite5a5f1f015cf435eb3d2f5712ba51ffdbb92cbef (patch)
treeb34761e9f795e991667bd0d12f633276e0422241 /tools/perf/Documentation
parentbc4b473f1aa2ef785ccfd890a24a1de5a6660f98 (diff)
perf: Remove leftover useless options to record trace events from scripts
-f, -c 1, -R are now useless for trace events recording, moreover -M is useless and event hurts. Remove them from the documentation examples and from record scripts. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/perf/Documentation')
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/Documentation/perf-trace-perl.txt6
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/Documentation/perf-trace-python.txt10
2 files changed, 6 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-trace-perl.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-trace-perl.txt
index d729cee8d98..ee6525ee6d6 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-trace-perl.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-trace-perl.txt
@@ -49,12 +49,10 @@ available as calls back into the perf executable (see below).
As an example, the following perf record command can be used to record
all sched_wakeup events in the system:
- # perf record -c 1 -f -a -M -R -e sched:sched_wakeup
+ # perf record -a -e sched:sched_wakeup
Traces meant to be processed using a script should be recorded with
-the above options: -c 1 says to sample every event, -a to enable
-system-wide collection, -M to multiplex the output, and -R to collect
-raw samples.
+the above option: -a to enable system-wide collection.
The format file for the sched_wakep event defines the following fields
(see /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/sched/sched_wakeup/format):
diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-trace-python.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-trace-python.txt
index a241aca7718..16a86500dcf 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-trace-python.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-trace-python.txt
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ don't care how it exited, so we'll use 'perf record' to record only
the sys_enter events:
----
-# perf record -c 1 -f -a -M -R -e raw_syscalls:sys_enter
+# perf record -a -e raw_syscalls:sys_enter
^C[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 56.545 MB perf.data (~2470503 samples) ]
@@ -359,7 +359,7 @@ your script:
# cat kernel-source/tools/perf/scripts/python/bin/syscall-counts-record
#!/bin/bash
-perf record -c 1 -f -a -M -R -e raw_syscalls:sys_enter
+perf record -a -e raw_syscalls:sys_enter
----
The 'report' script is also a shell script with the same base name as
@@ -449,12 +449,10 @@ available as calls back into the perf executable (see below).
As an example, the following perf record command can be used to record
all sched_wakeup events in the system:
- # perf record -c 1 -f -a -M -R -e sched:sched_wakeup
+ # perf record -a -e sched:sched_wakeup
Traces meant to be processed using a script should be recorded with
-the above options: -c 1 says to sample every event, -a to enable
-system-wide collection, -M to multiplex the output, and -R to collect
-raw samples.
+the above option: -a to enable system-wide collection.
The format file for the sched_wakep event defines the following fields
(see /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/sched/sched_wakeup/format):