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authorAdrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>2013-11-15 15:52:29 +0200
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2013-11-27 14:58:36 -0300
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perf record: Make per-cpu mmaps the default.
This affects the -p, -t and -u options that previously defaulted to per-thread mmaps. Consequently add an option to select per-thread mmaps to support the old behaviour. Note that per-thread can be used with a workload-only (i.e. none of -p, -t, -u, -a or -C is selected) to get a per-thread mmap with no inheritance. Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/5286271D.3020808@intel.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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@@ -201,11 +201,11 @@ abort events and some memory events in precise mode on modern Intel CPUs.
--transaction::
Record transaction flags for transaction related events.
---force-per-cpu::
-Force the use of per-cpu mmaps. By default, when tasks are specified (i.e. -p,
--t or -u options) per-thread mmaps are created. This option overrides that and
-forces per-cpu mmaps. A side-effect of that is that inheritance is
-automatically enabled. Add the -i option also to disable inheritance.
+--per-thread::
+Use per-thread mmaps. By default per-cpu mmaps are created. This option
+overrides that and uses per-thread mmaps. A side-effect of that is that
+inheritance is automatically disabled. --per-thread is ignored with a warning
+if combined with -a or -C options.
SEE ALSO
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