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Commit a6005123 authored by Tom Zanussi's avatar Tom Zanussi Committed by Ingo Molnar
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perf trace/scripting: Update Documentation



Update the perf-trace page with new and missing options and
remove some unused ones.

Signed-off-by: default avatarTom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
LKML-Reference: <1260867220-15699-7-git-send-email-tzanussi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
parent 3875294f
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@@ -8,18 +8,43 @@ perf-trace - Read perf.data (created by perf record) and display trace output
SYNOPSIS
--------
[verse]
'perf trace' [-i <file> | --input=file] symbol_name
'perf trace' {record <script> | report <script> [args] }

DESCRIPTION
-----------
This command reads the input file and displays the trace recorded.

There are several variants of perf trace:

  'perf trace' to see a detailed trace of the workload that was
  recorded.

  'perf trace record <script>' to record the events required for 'perf
  trace report'.  <script> is the name displayed in the output of
  'perf trace --list' i.e. the actual script name minus any language
  extension.

  'perf trace report <script>' 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
  extension.  The perf.data output from a previous run of 'perf trace
  record <script>' is used and should be present for this command to
  succeed.

OPTIONS
-------
-D::
--dump-raw-trace=::
        Display verbose dump of the trace data.

-L::
--Latency=::
        Show latency attributes (irqs/preemption disabled, etc).

-l::
--list=::
        Display a list of available trace scripts.

-s::
--script=::
        Process trace data with the given script ([lang]:script[.ext]).