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| author | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2013-11-01 08:10:58 +0100 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2013-11-01 08:24:41 +0100 |
| commit | fb10d5b7efbcc0aa9e46a9aa5ad86772c7bacb9a (patch) | |
| tree | ea284fe7b9c17a85b8d3c4ba999d6e26d51a12f6 /tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt | |
| parent | f9f9ffc237dd924f048204e8799da74f9ecf40cf (diff) | |
| parent | 52469b4fcd4fc433ffc78cec4cf94368e9052890 (diff) | |
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Merge branch 'linus' into sched/core
Resolve cherry-picking conflicts:
Conflicts:
mm/huge_memory.c
mm/memory.c
mm/mprotect.c
See this upstream merge commit for more details:
52469b4fcd4f Merge branch 'core-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt index e297b74471b8..ca0d3d9f4bac 100644 --- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt +++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt @@ -90,8 +90,20 @@ OPTIONS Number of mmap data pages. Must be a power of two. -g:: + Enables call-graph (stack chain/backtrace) recording. + --call-graph:: - Do call-graph (stack chain/backtrace) recording. + Setup and enable call-graph (stack chain/backtrace) recording, + implies -g. + + Allows specifying "fp" (frame pointer) or "dwarf" + (DWARF's CFI - Call Frame Information) as the method to collect + the information used to show the call graphs. + + In some systems, where binaries are build with gcc + --fomit-frame-pointer, using the "fp" method will produce bogus + call graphs, using "dwarf", if available (perf tools linked to + the libunwind library) should be used instead. -q:: --quiet:: |