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--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-script.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-script.txt
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ There are several variants of perf script:
'perf script report <script> [args]' to run and display the results
of <script>. <script> is the name displayed in the output of 'perf
- trace --list' i.e. the actual script name minus any language
+ script --list' i.e. the actual script name minus any language
extension. The perf.data output from a previous run of 'perf script
record <script>' is used and should be present for this command to
succeed. [args] refers to the (mainly optional) args expected by
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ OPTIONS
Any command you can specify in a shell.
-D::
---dump-raw-script=::
+--dump-raw-trace=::
Display verbose dump of the trace data.
-L::
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ OPTIONS
Comma separated list of fields to print. Options are:
comm, tid, pid, time, cpu, event, trace, ip, sym, dso, addr, symoff,
srcline, period, iregs, brstack, brstacksym, flags, bpf-output,
- callindent. Field list can be prepended with the type, trace, sw or hw,
+ callindent, insn, insnlen. Field list can be prepended with the type, trace, sw or hw,
to indicate to which event type the field list applies.
e.g., -F sw:comm,tid,time,ip,sym and -F trace:time,cpu,trace
@@ -181,6 +181,10 @@ OPTIONS
Instruction Trace decoding. For calls and returns, it will display the
name of the symbol indented with spaces to reflect the stack depth.
+ When doing instruction trace decoding insn and insnlen give the
+ instruction bytes and the instruction length of the current
+ instruction.
+
Finally, a user may not set fields to none for all event types.
i.e., -F "" is not allowed.
@@ -208,6 +212,9 @@ OPTIONS
--hide-call-graph::
When printing symbols do not display call chain.
+--stop-bt::
+ Stop display of callgraph at these symbols
+
-C::
--cpu:: Only report samples for the list of CPUs provided. Multiple CPUs can
be provided as a comma-separated list with no space: 0,1. Ranges of
@@ -285,6 +292,13 @@ include::itrace.txt[]
--force::
Don't do ownership validation.
+--time::
+ Only analyze samples within given time window: <start>,<stop>. Times
+ have the format seconds.microseconds. If start is not given (i.e., time
+ string is ',x.y') then analysis starts at the beginning of the file. If
+ stop time is not given (i.e, time string is 'x.y,') then analysis goes
+ to end of file.
+
SEE ALSO
--------
linkperf:perf-record[1], linkperf:perf-script-perl[1],