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authorShawn Bohrer <shawn.bohrer@gmail.com>2010-11-30 19:57:16 -0600
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2010-12-01 18:22:47 -0200
commit08dbd7e3fa2398910713b21399cca7c6e4b43011 (patch)
tree86216086dfef9fc6c2749d4b2e727ebf78a544c0 /tools/perf/Documentation
parent9d5b7f5b2b2c1ceade1fbbaefb2bd9167436329d (diff)
perf record: Document missing options
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <1291168642-11402-9-git-send-email-shawn.bohrer@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Shawn Bohrer <shawn.bohrer@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt
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--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt
@@ -39,15 +39,24 @@ OPTIONS
be passed as follows: '\mem:addr[:[r][w][x]]'.
If you want to profile read-write accesses in 0x1000, just set
'mem:0x1000:rw'.
+
+--filter=<filter>::
+ Event filter.
+
-a::
- System-wide collection.
+--all-cpus::
+ System-wide collection from all CPUs.
-l::
Scale counter values.
-p::
--pid=::
- Record events on existing pid.
+ Record events on existing process ID.
+
+-t::
+--tid=::
+ Record events on existing thread ID.
-r::
--realtime=::
@@ -109,8 +118,8 @@ Collect raw sample records from all opened counters (default for tracepoint coun
-C::
--cpu::
-Collect samples only on the list of cpus provided. Multiple CPUs can be provided as a
-comma-sperated list with no space: 0,1. Ranges of CPUs are specified with -: 0-2.
+Collect samples only on the list of CPUs provided. Multiple CPUs can be provided as a
+comma-separated list with no space: 0,1. Ranges of CPUs are specified with -: 0-2.
In per-thread mode with inheritance mode on (default), samples are captured only when
the thread executes on the designated CPUs. Default is to monitor all CPUs.