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diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-kvm.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-kvm.txt
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--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-kvm.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-kvm.txt
@@ -24,10 +24,17 @@ There are a couple of variants of perf kvm:
of an arbitrary workload.
'perf kvm record <command>' to record the performance counter profile
- of an arbitrary workload and save it into a perf data file. If both
- --host and --guest are input, the perf data file name is perf.data.kvm.
- If there is no --host but --guest, the file name is perf.data.guest.
- If there is no --guest but --host, the file name is perf.data.host.
+ of an arbitrary workload and save it into a perf data file. We set the
+ default behavior of perf kvm as --guest, so if neither --host nor --guest
+ is input, the perf data file name is perf.data.guest. If --host is input,
+ the perf data file name is perf.data.kvm. If you want to record data into
+ perf.data.host, please input --host --no-guest. The behaviors are shown as
+ following:
+ Default('') -> perf.data.guest
+ --host -> perf.data.kvm
+ --guest -> perf.data.guest
+ --host --guest -> perf.data.kvm
+ --host --no-guest -> perf.data.host
'perf kvm report' to display the performance counter profile information
recorded via perf kvm record.
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