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authorJiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>2013-06-05 13:37:21 +0200
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2013-07-08 17:37:25 -0300
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perf record: Remove -f/--force option
It no longer have any affect on the processing and is marked as obsolete anyway. Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-tvwyspiqr4getzfib2lw06ty@git.kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1372307120-737-1-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org [ combined patch removing the -f usage in various sub-commands, such as 'perf sched', etc, by Namhyung Kim ] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/perf/Documentation')
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/Documentation/examples.txt4
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt4
2 files changed, 2 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/examples.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/examples.txt
index 77f9527..a4e3921 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/examples.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/examples.txt
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ Furthermore, these tracepoints can be used to sample the workload as
well. For example the page allocations done by a 'git gc' can be
captured the following way:
- titan:~/git> perf record -f -e kmem:mm_page_alloc -c 1 ./git gc
+ titan:~/git> perf record -e kmem:mm_page_alloc -c 1 ./git gc
Counting objects: 1148, done.
Delta compression using up to 2 threads.
Compressing objects: 100% (450/450), done.
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ Furthermore, call-graph sampling can be done too, of page
allocations - to see precisely what kind of page allocations there
are:
- titan:~/git> perf record -f -g -e kmem:mm_page_alloc -c 1 ./git gc
+ titan:~/git> perf record -g -e kmem:mm_page_alloc -c 1 ./git gc
Counting objects: 1148, done.
Delta compression using up to 2 threads.
Compressing objects: 100% (450/450), done.
diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt
index 7e32580..e297b74 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt
@@ -70,10 +70,6 @@ OPTIONS
--no-delay::
Collect data without buffering.
--f::
---force::
- Overwrite existing data file. (deprecated)
-
-c::
--count=::
Event period to sample.
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