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authorArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2014-01-15 00:58:12 +0400
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2014-01-15 00:58:12 +0400
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perf record: Rename --initial-delay to --delay
To be consistent with the equivalent option in 'stat', also, for the same reason, use -D as the one letter alias. Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-p5yjnopajb3a8x0xha7yl5w8@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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@@ -208,7 +208,8 @@ overrides that and uses per-thread mmaps. A side-effect of that is that
inheritance is automatically disabled. --per-thread is ignored with a warning
if combined with -a or -C options.
---initial-delay msecs::
+-D::
+--delay=::
After starting the program, wait msecs before measuring. This is useful to
filter out the startup phase of the program, which is often very different.