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diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-script.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-script.txt
index 053bbbd84ece..c01904f388ce 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-script.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-script.txt
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ OPTIONS
Comma separated list of fields to print. Options are:
comm, tid, pid, time, cpu, event, trace, ip, sym, dso, addr, symoff,
srcline, period, iregs, brstack, brstacksym, flags, bpf-output,
- callindent. Field list can be prepended with the type, trace, sw or hw,
+ callindent, insn, insnlen. Field list can be prepended with the type, trace, sw or hw,
to indicate to which event type the field list applies.
e.g., -F sw:comm,tid,time,ip,sym and -F trace:time,cpu,trace
@@ -181,6 +181,10 @@ OPTIONS
Instruction Trace decoding. For calls and returns, it will display the
name of the symbol indented with spaces to reflect the stack depth.
+ When doing instruction trace decoding insn and insnlen give the
+ instruction bytes and the instruction length of the current
+ instruction.
+
Finally, a user may not set fields to none for all event types.
i.e., -F "" is not allowed.