Merge tag 'perf-core-for-mingo' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux into perf/core

Pull perf/core improvements and fixes from Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo:

User visible changes:

  - Warn if given uprobe event accesses memory on older kernel (Masami Hiramatsu)

  - 'perf record' Documentation fixes (Namhyung Kim)

  - Report unsupported events properly in 'perf stat' (Suzuki K. Poulose)

Infrastructure changes:

  - Avoid FORK after COMM when synthesizing records for pre-existing threads (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)

  - Reference count struct thread (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)

  - Don't keep the session around in 'perf sched', thread refcounting removes that need (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)

  - Initialize cpu set in pthread_attr_setaffinity_np() feature test (Adrian Hunter)

  - Only include tsc file for x86 (David Ahern)

  - Compare JOBS to 0 after grep (David Ahern)

  - Improve feature detection messages (Ingo Molnar)

  - Revert "perf: Remove the extra validity check on nr_pages" (Kan Liang)

  - Remove bias offset to find probe point by address (Masami Hiramatsu)

  - Fix build error on ARCH=i386/x86_64/sparc64 (Namhyung Kim)

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt
index cae75c11120f..355c4f5569b5 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt
@@ -55,6 +55,11 @@ OPTIONS
           If you want to profile write accesses in [0x1000~1008), just set
           'mem:0x1000/8:w'.
 
+	- a group of events surrounded by a pair of brace ("{event1,event2,...}").
+	  Each event is separated by commas and the group should be quoted to
+	  prevent the shell interpretation.  You also need to use --group on
+	  "perf report" to view group events together.
+
 --filter=<filter>::
         Event filter.
 
@@ -62,9 +67,6 @@ OPTIONS
 --all-cpus::
         System-wide collection from all CPUs.
 
--l::
-        Scale counter values.
-
 -p::
 --pid=::
 	Record events on existing process ID (comma separated list).
@@ -107,6 +109,10 @@ OPTIONS
 	specification with appended unit character - B/K/M/G. The
 	size is rounded up to have nearest pages power of two value.
 
+--group::
+	Put all events in a single event group.  This precedes the --event
+	option and remains only for backward compatibility.  See --event.
+
 -g::
 	Enables call-graph (stack chain/backtrace) recording.