perf tool: Add cgroup support

[firefly-linux-kernel-4.4.55.git] / tools / perf / Documentation / perf-stat.txt

diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-stat.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-stat.txt
index b6da7affbbeeb82533387e9ba3f7c788d3e28dec..918cc38ee6d1e33ca5aa2a32f73946676e493942 100644 (file)
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-stat.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-stat.txt
@@ -83,6 +83,17 @@ This option is only valid in system-wide mode.
 print counts using a CSV-style output to make it easy to import directly into
 spreadsheets. Columns are separated by the string specified in SEP.
 
+-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.
+
 EXAMPLES
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