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-rw-r--r--tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt3
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/builtin-record.c2
2 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt
index 3a35a8523e6d..c71b0f36d9e8 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt
@@ -208,7 +208,8 @@ 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.
---initial-delay msecs::
+-D::
+--delay=::
After starting the program, wait msecs before measuring. This is useful to
filter out the startup phase of the program, which is often very different.
diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
index 78e790f4c54f..3c394bf16fa8 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
@@ -882,7 +882,7 @@ const struct option record_options[] = {
OPT_CALLBACK('G', "cgroup", &record.evlist, "name",
"monitor event in cgroup name only",
parse_cgroups),
- OPT_UINTEGER(0, "initial-delay", &record.opts.initial_delay,
+ OPT_UINTEGER('D', "delay", &record.opts.initial_delay,
"ms to wait before starting measurement after program start"),
OPT_STRING('u', "uid", &record.opts.target.uid_str, "user",
"user to profile"),