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| author | Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> | 2015-06-10 16:48:50 +0200 |
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| committer | Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> | 2015-06-10 17:00:27 +0200 |
| commit | 5610032135c05e7bf9cba231826577a01719d010 (patch) | |
| tree | 37e91c544968493de3340b8a26b367965fd71de2 /tools/perf/Documentation | |
| parent | perf tools: Avoid possible race condition in copyfile() (diff) | |
| download | linux-5610032135c05e7bf9cba231826577a01719d010.tar.xz linux-5610032135c05e7bf9cba231826577a01719d010.zip | |
perf record: Amend option summaries
Because there's too many options and I cannot read, I frequently get
confused between -c and -P, and try to do things like:
perf record -P 50000 -- foo
Which does not work; try and make the option description slightly longer
and hopefully less confusing.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150610144850.GP19282@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net
[ Do those changes on the man page as well ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/perf/Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt | 10 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt index 280533ebf9df..6fdf78625c51 100644 --- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt +++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt @@ -152,12 +152,16 @@ OPTIONS -d:: --data:: - Sample addresses. + Record the sample addresses. -T:: --timestamp:: - Sample timestamps. Use it with 'perf report -D' to see the timestamps, - for instance. + Record the sample timestamps. Use it with 'perf report -D' to see the + timestamps, for instance. + +-P:: +--period:: + Record the sample period. -n:: --no-samples:: |