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authorDavid Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>2013-08-20 13:15:45 -0400
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2013-08-26 16:25:35 -0400
commitac9be8ee4ecdeae73c78d84ebfe37009e11cf99d (patch)
tree718b8a8b74c416f9127653b3a84a5dd16307ca1e /tools/perf/Documentation
parentc24ff998fc420891f17d73acab6766823d492175 (diff)
perf trace: Make command line arguments consistent with perf-record
Common arguments like thread id, CPU list, mmap pages, etc should be consistent across perf commands. v3: Updated man page v2: rebased to latest core branch Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1377018945-21940-1-git-send-email-dsahern@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-trace.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-trace.txt
index 2794efce47a1..cb3371eb597d 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-trace.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-trace.txt
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ analysis phases.
23OPTIONS 23OPTIONS
24------- 24-------
25 25
26-a::
26--all-cpus:: 27--all-cpus::
27 System-wide collection from all CPUs. 28 System-wide collection from all CPUs.
28 29
@@ -38,18 +39,23 @@ OPTIONS
38--pid=:: 39--pid=::
39 Record events on existing process ID (comma separated list). 40 Record events on existing process ID (comma separated list).
40 41
42-t::
41--tid=:: 43--tid=::
42 Record events on existing thread ID (comma separated list). 44 Record events on existing thread ID (comma separated list).
43 45
46-u::
44--uid=:: 47--uid=::
45 Record events in threads owned by uid. Name or number. 48 Record events in threads owned by uid. Name or number.
46 49
50-i::
47--no-inherit:: 51--no-inherit::
48 Child tasks do not inherit counters. 52 Child tasks do not inherit counters.
49 53
54-m::
50--mmap-pages=:: 55--mmap-pages=::
51 Number of mmap data pages. Must be a power of two. 56 Number of mmap data pages. Must be a power of two.
52 57
58-C::
53--cpu:: 59--cpu::
54Collect samples only on the list of CPUs provided. Multiple CPUs can be provided as a 60Collect samples only on the list of CPUs provided. Multiple CPUs can be provided as a
55comma-separated list with no space: 0,1. Ranges of CPUs are specified with -: 0-2. 61comma-separated list with no space: 0,1. Ranges of CPUs are specified with -: 0-2.