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| author | Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> | 2013-11-01 17:51:34 +0400 |
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| committer | Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> | 2013-11-14 23:10:27 +0400 |
| commit | 539e6bb71e350541105e67e3d6c31392d9da25ef (patch) | |
| tree | 28f5b908b42bee694cddad30d2fc1f15c66315e6 /tools/perf/Documentation | |
| parent | 35e17b2450e09968f9702d4048c228199af171bc (diff) | |
| download | linux-539e6bb71e350541105e67e3d6c31392d9da25ef.tar.xz | |
perf record: Add an option to force per-cpu mmaps
By default, when tasks are specified (i.e. -p, -t or -u options)
per-thread mmaps are created.
Add an option to override that and force per-cpu mmaps.
Further comments by peterz:
So this option allows -t/-p/-u to create one buffer per cpu and attach
all the various thread/process/user tasks' their counters to that one
buffer?
As opposed to the current state where each such counter would have its
own buffer.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Tested-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1383313899-15987-7-git-send-email-adrian.hunter@intel.com
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 | 6 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt index 052f7c4dc00c..43b42c4f4a91 100644 --- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt +++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt @@ -201,6 +201,12 @@ abort events and some memory events in precise mode on modern Intel CPUs. --transaction:: Record transaction flags for transaction related events. +--force-per-cpu:: +Force the use of per-cpu mmaps. By default, when tasks are specified (i.e. -p, +-t or -u options) per-thread mmaps are created. This option overrides that and +forces per-cpu mmaps. A side-effect of that is that inheritance is +automatically enabled. Add the -i option also to disable inheritance. + SEE ALSO -------- linkperf:perf-stat[1], linkperf:perf-list[1] |