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authorArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2012-01-19 14:08:15 -0200
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2012-01-24 19:47:37 -0200
commit0d37aa34f8806bb443dd3c8621fd9bdbb50c58bb (patch)
tree3e245385cdb75fec299f5e145243f062b70fd652 /tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt
parent9ae7d3351aac238eef9646479693105688fd9cc9 (diff)
perf tools: Introduce per user view
The new --uid command line option will show only the tasks for a given user, using the proc interface to figure out the existing tasks. Kernel work is needed to close races at startup, but this should already be useful in many use cases. Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-bdnspm000gw2l984a2t53o8z@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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@@ -58,6 +58,10 @@ OPTIONS
--tid=::
Record events on existing thread ID.
+-u::
+--uid=::
+ Record events in threads owned by uid. Name or number.
+
-r::
--realtime=::
Collect data with this RT SCHED_FIFO priority.