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authorShawn Bohrer <shawn.bohrer@gmail.com>2010-11-30 19:57:21 -0600
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2010-12-01 18:22:48 -0200
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perf top: Document missing options
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <1291168642-11402-14-git-send-email-shawn.bohrer@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Shawn Bohrer <shawn.bohrer@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-top.txt
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
-----------
-This command generates and displays a performance counter profile in realtime.
+This command generates and displays a performance counter profile in real time.
OPTIONS
@@ -27,8 +27,8 @@ OPTIONS
-C <cpu-list>::
--cpu=<cpu>::
-Monitor only on the list of cpus provided. Multiple CPUs can be provided as a
-comma-sperated list with no space: 0,1. Ranges of CPUs are specified with -: 0-2.
+Monitor only on the list of CPUs provided. Multiple CPUs can be provided as a
+comma-separated list with no space: 0,1. Ranges of CPUs are specified with -: 0-2.
Default is to monitor all CPUS.
-d <seconds>::
@@ -50,6 +50,10 @@ Default is to monitor all CPUS.
--count-filter=<count>::
Only display functions with more events than this.
+-g::
+--group::
+ Put the counters into a counter group.
+
-F <freq>::
--freq=<freq>::
Profile at this frequency.
@@ -68,7 +72,11 @@ Default is to monitor all CPUS.
-p <pid>::
--pid=<pid>::
- Profile events on existing pid.
+ Profile events on existing Process ID.
+
+-t <tid>::
+--tid=<tid>::
+ Profile events on existing thread ID.
-r <priority>::
--realtime=<priority>::
@@ -78,6 +86,18 @@ Default is to monitor all CPUS.
--sym-annotate=<symbol>::
Annotate this symbol.
+-K::
+--hide_kernel_symbols::
+ Hide kernel symbols.
+
+-U::
+--hide_user_symbols::
+ Hide user symbols.
+
+-D::
+--dump-symtab::
+ Dump the symbol table used for profiling.
+
-v::
--verbose::
Be more verbose (show counter open errors, etc).