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@@ -242,6 +242,16 @@ Default is to monitor all CPUS.
--hierarchy::
Enable hierarchy output.
+--overwrite::
+ Enable this to use just the most recent records, which helps in high core count
+ machines such as Knights Landing/Mill, but right now is disabled by default as
+ the pausing used in this technique is leading to loss of metadata events such
+ as PERF_RECORD_MMAP which makes 'perf top' unable to resolve samples, leading
+ to lots of unknown samples appearing on the UI. Enable this if you are in such
+ machines and profiling a workload that doesn't creates short lived threads and/or
+ doesn't uses many executable mmap operations. Work is being planed to solve
+ this situation, till then, this will remain disabled by default.
+
--force::
Don't do ownership validation.