perf record: Document --group option
authorNamhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Mon, 2 Mar 2015 03:13:33 +0000 (12:13 +0900)
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Mon, 2 Mar 2015 15:04:45 +0000 (12:04 -0300)
commit9a75606ca06d94aab1ed0dbe96935e3f89dfb81c
treeabc35265d3539b1e1bfe60c2f9b6d4fef42b8b98
parent08b23f4e635fa42a1d3ebdf31b8bb720f17d6c14
perf record: Document --group option

The 'perf record --group' option lacks documentation and confuses users.
As -e/--event option already supports group spec, it should not be used
anymore.

Also add a short description of event group itself.

Reported-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1425266013-5034-1-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt