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authorAndi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>2015-02-24 18:13:40 -0500
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2015-02-25 10:42:23 -0500
commit85c273d2b6569706762cf400079ca0699e007d81 (patch)
treeff85ad53d0f7ea05d8bea1aa685d7df33ad1f6ac /tools/perf/Documentation
parent506740654db4fa5b6e1229147cee3cf8c7e07eca (diff)
perf record: Support recording running/enabled time
Add an option to perf record to record running/enabled time for read events, similar to what stat does. This is useful to understand multiplexing problems. Right now the report support is not great, but at least report -D already supports it. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1424819620-16043-1-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org [ Fixed the Documentation entry to match the OPT_BOOLEAN one ] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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@@ -241,6 +241,9 @@ Capture machine state (registers) at interrupt, i.e., on counter overflows for
241each sample. List of captured registers depends on the architecture. This option 241each sample. List of captured registers depends on the architecture. This option
242is off by default. 242is off by default.
243 243
244--running-time::
245Record running and enabled time for read events (:S)
246
244SEE ALSO 247SEE ALSO
245-------- 248--------
246linkperf:perf-stat[1], linkperf:perf-list[1] 249linkperf:perf-stat[1], linkperf:perf-list[1]