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authorDavid Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>2011-11-21 10:02:52 -0700
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2011-11-28 11:48:23 -0200
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perf script: Add comm filtering option
Allows collecting events system wide and then pulling out events for a specific task name(s). e.g, perf script -c gnome-shell,gnome-terminal Applies on top of: https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/11/13/74 v2->v3 - update Documentation v1->v2 - use comm_list from symbol_conf Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1321894972-24246-1-git-send-email-dsahern@gmail.com Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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@@ -188,6 +188,11 @@ OPTIONS
CPUs are specified with -: 0-2. Default is to report samples on all
CPUs.
+-c::
+--comms=::
+ Only display events for these comms. CSV that understands
+ file://filename entries.
+
-I::
--show-info::
Display extended information about the perf.data file. This adds