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Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2013 13:38:56 -0700
From: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/10] perf record: Synthesize non-exec MMAP records when
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[Added Vince]

On 11/11/13, 1:22 PM, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> When perf_event_attr.mmap_data is set the kernel will generate
> PERF_RECORD_MMAP events when non-exec (data, SysV mem) mmaps are
> created, so we need to synthesize from /proc/pid/maps for existing
> threads

Seems like that should be documented in the man pages:

[dsa@MacBook perf]$ egrep -r mmap_data Documentation/
[dsa@MacBook perf]$

Vince: where are you keeping the man page you are putting together?

David