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authorDmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>2025-02-13 10:08:19 +0100
committerNamhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>2025-02-18 14:04:32 -0800
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perf report: Add --latency flag
Add record/report --latency flag that allows to capture and show latency-centric profiles rather than the default CPU-consumption-centric profiles. For latency profiles record captures context switch events, and report shows Latency as the first column. Signed-off-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/e9640464bcbc47dde2cb557003f421052ebc9eec.1739437531.git.dvyukov@google.com Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
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-rw-r--r--tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt4
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diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt
index 80686d590de2..c7fc1ba265e2 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt
@@ -227,6 +227,10 @@ OPTIONS
'--filter' exists, the new filter expression will be combined with
them by '&&'.
+--latency::
+ Enable data collection for latency profiling.
+ Use perf report --latency for latency-centric profile.
+
-a::
--all-cpus::
System-wide collection from all CPUs (default if no target is specified).
diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt
index 87f864519406..66794131aec4 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt
@@ -68,6 +68,11 @@ OPTIONS
--hide-unresolved::
Only display entries resolved to a symbol.
+--latency::
+ Show latency-centric profile rather than the default
+ CPU-consumption-centric profile
+ (requires perf record --latency flag).
+
-s::
--sort=::
Sort histogram entries by given key(s) - multiple keys can be specified