Zhang, Yanmin d6d901c23a perf events: Change perf parameter --pid to process-wide collection instead of thread-wide ... Parameter --pid (or -p) of perf currently means a thread-wide collection. For exmaple, if a process whose id is 8888 has 10 threads, 'perf top -p 8888' just collects the main thread statistics. That's misleading. Users are used to attach a whole process when debugging a process by gdb. To follow normal usage style, the patch change --pid to process-wide collection and add --tid (-t) to mean a thread-wide collection. Usage example is: # perf top -p 8888 # perf record -p 8888 -f sleep 10 # perf stat -p 8888 -f sleep 10 Above commands collect the statistics of all threads of process 8888. Signed-off-by: Zhang Yanmin <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Sheng Yang <sheng@linux.intel.com> Cc: Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org> Cc: Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com> Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com> Cc: zhiteng.huang@intel.com Cc: Zachary Amsden <zamsden@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <1268922965-14774-3-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>		2010-03-18 16:21:12 +01:00
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perf	perf events: Change perf parameter --pid to process-wide collection instead of thread-wide	2010-03-18 16:21:12 +01:00