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diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt index f1079ee7f2ec..3cf7bac67239 100644 --- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt +++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt @@ -469,7 +469,7 @@ This option sets the time out limit. The default value is 500 ms. --switch-events:: Record context switch events i.e. events of type PERF_RECORD_SWITCH or -PERF_RECORD_SWITCH_CPU_WIDE. In some cases (e.g. Intel PT or CoreSight) +PERF_RECORD_SWITCH_CPU_WIDE. In some cases (e.g. Intel PT, CoreSight or Arm SPE) switch events will be enabled automatically, which can be suppressed by by the option --no-switch-events. @@ -596,6 +596,22 @@ options. 'perf record --dry-run -e' can act as a BPF script compiler if llvm.dump-obj in config file is set to true. +--synth=TYPE:: +Collect and synthesize given type of events (comma separated). Note that +this option controls the synthesis from the /proc filesystem which represent +task status for pre-existing threads. + +Kernel (and some other) events are recorded regardless of the +choice in this option. For example, --synth=no would have MMAP events for +kernel and modules. + +Available types are: + 'task' - synthesize FORK and COMM events for each task + 'mmap' - synthesize MMAP events for each process (implies 'task') + 'cgroup' - synthesize CGROUP events for each cgroup + 'all' - synthesize all events (default) + 'no' - do not synthesize any of the above events + --tail-synthesize:: Instead of collecting non-sample events (for example, fork, comm, mmap) at the beginning of record, collect them during finalizing an output file. |