PERF_3.2-RECORD(1) perf Manual PERF_3.2-RECORD(1)
NAME
perf-record - Run a command and record its profile into perf.data
SYNOPSIS
perf record [-e <EVENT> | --event=EVENT] [-l] [-a] <command>
perf record [-e <EVENT> | --event=EVENT] [-l] [-a] -- <command> [<options>]
DESCRIPTION
This command runs a command and gathers a performance counter profile from it, into perf.data - without displaying anything.
This file can then be inspected later on, using perf report.
OPTIONS
<command>...
Any command you can specify in a shell.
-e, --event=
Select the PMU event. Selection can be:
o a symbolic event name (use perf list to list all events)
o a raw PMU event (eventsel+umask) in the form of rNNN where NNN is a hexadecimal event descriptor.
o a hardware breakpoint event in the form of mem:addr[:access] where addr is the address in memory you want to break in. Access is
the memory access type (read, write, execute) it can be passed as follows: mem:addr[:[r][w][x]]. If you want to profile read-write
accesses in 0x1000, just set mem:0x1000:rw.
--filter=<filter>
Event filter.
-a, --all-cpus
System-wide collection from all CPUs.
-l
Scale counter values.
-p, --pid=
Record events on existing process ID.
-t, --tid=
Record events on existing thread ID.
-r, --realtime=
Collect data with this RT SCHED_FIFO priority.
-D, --no-delay
Collect data without buffering.
-A, --append
Append to the output file to do incremental profiling.
-f, --force
Overwrite existing data file. (deprecated)
-c, --count=
Event period to sample.
-o, --output=
Output file name.
-i, --no-inherit
Child tasks do not inherit counters.
-F, --freq=
Profile at this frequency.
-m, --mmap-pages=
Number of mmap data pages.
-g, --call-graph
Do call-graph (stack chain/backtrace) recording.
-q, --quiet
Don't print any message, useful for scripting.
-v, --verbose
Be more verbose (show counter open errors, etc).
-s, --stat
Per thread counts.
-d, --data
Sample addresses.
-T, --timestamp
Sample timestamps. Use it with perf report -D to see the timestamps, for instance.
-n, --no-samples
Don't sample.
-R, --raw-samples
Collect raw sample records from all opened counters (default for tracepoint counters).
-C, --cpu
Collect samples only on the list of CPUs provided. Multiple CPUs can be provided as a comma-separated list with no space: 0,1. Ranges
of CPUs are specified with -: 0-2. In per-thread mode with inheritance mode on (default), samples are captured only when the thread
executes on the designated CPUs. Default is to monitor all CPUs.
-N, --no-buildid-cache
Do not update the builid cache. This saves some overhead in situations where the information in the perf.data file (which includes
buildids) is sufficient.
-G name,..., --cgroup name,...
monitor only in the container (cgroup) called "name". This option is available only in per-cpu mode. The cgroup filesystem must be
mounted. All threads belonging to container "name" are monitored when they run on the monitored CPUs. Multiple cgroups can be provided.
Each cgroup is applied to the corresponding event, i.e., first cgroup to first event, second cgroup to second event and so on. It is
possible to provide an empty cgroup (monitor all the time) using, e.g., -G foo,,bar. Cgroups must have corresponding events, i.e., they
always refer to events defined earlier on the command line.
SEE ALSO
perf_3.2-stat(1), perf_3.2-list(1)
perf 06/24/2012 PERF_3.2-RECORD(1)