From 0d37aa34f8806bb443dd3c8621fd9bdbb50c58bb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2012 14:08:15 -0200
Subject: perf tools: Introduce per user view

The new --uid command line option will show only the tasks for a given
user, using the proc interface to figure out the existing tasks.

Kernel work is needed to close races at startup, but this should already
be useful in many use cases.

Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-bdnspm000gw2l984a2t53o8z@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
---
 tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt | 4 ++++
 tools/perf/Documentation/perf-top.txt    | 4 ++++
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+)

(limited to 'tools/perf/Documentation')

diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt
index 2937f7e14bb7..ff9a66e0d4e4 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt
@@ -58,6 +58,10 @@ OPTIONS
 --tid=::
         Record events on existing thread ID.
 
+-u::
+--uid=::
+        Record events in threads owned by uid. Name or number.
+
 -r::
 --realtime=::
 	Collect data with this RT SCHED_FIFO priority.
diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-top.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-top.txt
index b1a5bbbfebef..ab1454ed450f 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-top.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-top.txt
@@ -78,6 +78,10 @@ Default is to monitor all CPUS.
 --tid=<tid>::
         Profile events on existing thread ID.
 
+-u::
+--uid=::
+        Record events in threads owned by uid. Name or number.
+
 -r <priority>::
 --realtime=<priority>::
 	Collect data with this RT SCHED_FIFO priority.
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