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diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt index d232b13ea713..58986f4cc190 100644 --- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt +++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt @@ -88,6 +88,20 @@ OPTIONS If you want to profile write accesses in [0x1000~1008), just set 'mem:0x1000/8:w'. + - a BPF source file (ending in .c) or a precompiled object file (ending + in .o) selects one or more BPF events. + The BPF program can attach to various perf events based on the ELF section + names. + + When processing a '.c' file, perf searches an installed LLVM to compile it + into an object file first. Optional clang options can be passed via the + '--clang-opt' command line option, e.g.: + + perf record --clang-opt "-DLINUX_VERSION_CODE=0x50000" \ + -e tests/bpf-script-example.c + + Note: '--clang-opt' must be placed before '--event/-e'. + - a group of events surrounded by a pair of brace ("{event1,event2,...}"). Each event is separated by commas and the group should be quoted to prevent the shell interpretation. You also need to use --group on @@ -440,6 +454,30 @@ Use <n> control blocks in asynchronous (Posix AIO) trace writing mode (default: Asynchronous mode is supported only when linking Perf tool with libc library providing implementation for Posix AIO API. +--affinity=mode:: +Set affinity mask of trace reading thread according to the policy defined by 'mode' value: + node - thread affinity mask is set to NUMA node cpu mask of the processed mmap buffer + cpu - thread affinity mask is set to cpu of the processed mmap buffer + +--mmap-flush=number:: + +Specify minimal number of bytes that is extracted from mmap data pages and +processed for output. One can specify the number using B/K/M/G suffixes. + +The maximal allowed value is a quarter of the size of mmaped data pages. + +The default option value is 1 byte which means that every time that the output +writing thread finds some new data in the mmaped buffer the data is extracted, +possibly compressed (-z) and written to the output, perf.data or pipe. + +Larger data chunks are compressed more effectively in comparison to smaller +chunks so extraction of larger chunks from the mmap data pages is preferable +from the perspective of output size reduction. + +Also at some cases executing less output write syscalls with bigger data size +can take less time than executing more output write syscalls with smaller data +size thus lowering runtime profiling overhead. + --all-kernel:: Configure all used events to run in kernel space. @@ -476,6 +514,10 @@ overhead. You can still switch them on with: --switch-output --no-no-buildid --no-no-buildid-cache +--switch-max-files=N:: + +When rotating perf.data with --switch-output, only keep N files. + --dry-run:: Parse options then exit. --dry-run can be used to detect errors in cmdline options. |