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authorNamhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>2015-08-09 15:45:23 +0900
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2015-08-10 17:20:26 -0300
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perf record: Support per-event freq term
Now perf can set per-event value of time and (sampling) period. But I guess most users like me just want to set frequency rather than period. So add the 'freq' term in the event parser. Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@intel.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1439102724-14079-1-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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@@ -49,6 +49,7 @@ OPTIONS
These params can be used to overload default config values per event.
Here is a list of the params.
- 'period': Set event sampling period
+ - 'freq': Set event sampling frequency
- 'time': Disable/enable time stamping. Acceptable values are 1 for
enabling time stamping. 0 for disabling time stamping.
The default is 1.
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