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authorShawn Bohrer <shawn.bohrer@gmail.com>2010-11-30 19:57:18 -0600
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2010-12-01 18:22:48 -0200
commit1eacc94a66ce347abbf75f223361b21461331383 (patch)
tree941510c303b3b1e8378b594546f7eff4441f784f /tools/perf/Documentation
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perf sched: Document missing options
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <1291168642-11402-11-git-send-email-shawn.bohrer@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Shawn Bohrer <shawn.bohrer@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-sched.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-sched.txt
index 8417644a6166..46822d5fde1c 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-sched.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-sched.txt
@@ -8,11 +8,11 @@ perf-sched - Tool to trace/measure scheduler properties (latencies)
SYNOPSIS
--------
[verse]
-'perf sched' {record|latency|replay|trace}
+'perf sched' {record|latency|map|replay|trace}
DESCRIPTION
-----------
-There are four variants of perf sched:
+There are five variants of perf sched:
'perf sched record <command>' to record the scheduling events
of an arbitrary workload.
@@ -30,8 +30,22 @@ There are four variants of perf sched:
of the workload as it occurred when it was recorded - and can repeat
it a number of times, measuring its performance.)
+ 'perf sched map' to print a textual context-switching outline of
+ workload captured via perf sched record. Columns stand for
+ individual CPUs, and the two-letter shortcuts stand for tasks that
+ are running on a CPU. A '*' denotes the CPU that had the event, and
+ a dot signals an idle CPU.
+
OPTIONS
-------
+-i::
+--input=<file>::
+ Input file name. (default: perf.data)
+
+-v::
+--verbose::
+ Be more verbose. (show symbol address, etc)
+
-D::
--dump-raw-trace=::
Display verbose dump of the sched data.