From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932326AbbCCD0q (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Mar 2015 22:26:46 -0500 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.136]:43975 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932306AbbCCD0m (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Mar 2015 22:26:42 -0500 From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo To: Ingo Molnar Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Namhyung Kim , Jiri Olsa , Peter Zijlstra , Stephane Eranian , Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Subject: [PATCH 07/20] perf record: Document --group option Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2015 00:25:56 -0300 Message-Id: <1425353169-21436-8-git-send-email-acme@kernel.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.9.3 In-Reply-To: <1425353169-21436-1-git-send-email-acme@kernel.org> References: <1425353169-21436-1-git-send-email-acme@kernel.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Namhyung Kim The 'perf record --group' option lacks documentation and confuses users. As -e/--event option already supports group spec, it should not be used anymore. Also add a short description of event group itself. Reported-by: Stephane Eranian Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Stephane Eranian Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1425266013-5034-1-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo --- tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt index 4d668945dfe6..355c4f5569b5 100644 --- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt +++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt @@ -55,6 +55,11 @@ OPTIONS If you want to profile write accesses in [0x1000~1008), just set 'mem:0x1000/8:w'. + - a group of events surrounded by a pair of brace ("{event1,event2,...}"). + Each event is separated by commas and the group should be quoted to + prevent the shell interpretation. You also need to use --group on + "perf report" to view group events together. + --filter=:: Event filter. @@ -104,6 +109,10 @@ OPTIONS specification with appended unit character - B/K/M/G. The size is rounded up to have nearest pages power of two value. +--group:: + Put all events in a single event group. This precedes the --event + option and remains only for backward compatibility. See --event. + -g:: Enables call-graph (stack chain/backtrace) recording. -- 1.9.3