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authorNamhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>2015-05-09 17:19:42 +0200
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2015-05-12 14:59:48 +0200
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perf tools: Document relation of per-thread event count feature
The 'perf record -s' and 'perf report -T' should be used together to see per-thread event counts. Document the relation of these commands. Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1431184784-30525-1-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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-rw-r--r--tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt3
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt3
2 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt
index 57dd57bcef95..280533ebf9df 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt
@@ -147,7 +147,8 @@ OPTIONS
-s::
--stat::
- Per thread counts.
+ Record per-thread event counts. Use it with 'perf report -T' to see
+ the values.
-d::
--data::
diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt
index 27190ed06f9c..c33b69f3374f 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt
@@ -34,7 +34,8 @@ OPTIONS
-T::
--threads::
- Show per-thread event counters
+ Show per-thread event counters. The input data file should be recorded
+ with -s option.
-c::
--comms=::
Only consider symbols in these comms. CSV that understands