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authorAndi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>2015-02-25 00:13:40 +0100
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2015-02-25 16:42:23 +0100
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parentperf tools: Print the thread's tid on PERF_RECORD_COMM events when -D is asked (diff)
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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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diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt
index 1c7e50f62b1f..cae75c11120f 100644
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+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt
@@ -241,6 +241,9 @@ Capture machine state (registers) at interrupt, i.e., on counter overflows for
each sample. List of captured registers depends on the architecture. This option
is off by default.
+--running-time::
+Record running and enabled time for read events (:S)
+
SEE ALSO
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linkperf:perf-stat[1], linkperf:perf-list[1]