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diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt index 465be4e62a17..b4e9ef7edfef 100644 --- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt +++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt @@ -758,6 +758,16 @@ include::intel-hybrid.txt[] If the URLs is not specified, the value of DEBUGINFOD_URLS system environment variable is used. +--off-cpu:: + Enable off-cpu profiling with BPF. The BPF program will collect + task scheduling information with (user) stacktrace and save them + as sample data of a software event named "offcpu-time". The + sample period will have the time the task slept in nanoseconds. + + Note that BPF can collect stack traces using frame pointer ("fp") + only, as of now. So the applications built without the frame + pointer might see bogus addresses. + SEE ALSO -------- linkperf:perf-stat[1], linkperf:perf-list[1], linkperf:perf-intel-pt[1] |