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authorFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>2010-04-30 19:55:00 +0200
committerFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>2010-04-30 19:55:00 +0200
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perf: Remove leftover useless options to record trace events from scripts
-f, -c 1, -R are now useless for trace events recording, moreover -M is useless and event hurts. Remove them from the documentation examples and from record scripts. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
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diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-trace-perl.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-trace-perl.txt
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+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-trace-perl.txt
@@ -49,12 +49,10 @@ available as calls back into the perf executable (see below).
As an example, the following perf record command can be used to record
all sched_wakeup events in the system:
- # perf record -c 1 -f -a -M -R -e sched:sched_wakeup
+ # perf record -a -e sched:sched_wakeup
Traces meant to be processed using a script should be recorded with
-the above options: -c 1 says to sample every event, -a to enable
-system-wide collection, -M to multiplex the output, and -R to collect
-raw samples.
+the above option: -a to enable system-wide collection.
The format file for the sched_wakep event defines the following fields
(see /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/sched/sched_wakeup/format):