Options and arguments:¶

-o file

: send script output to file, instead of stderr

-p pid

: specific tracing pid

-C cpu

: cpu to monitor in system-wide

-T

: show timestamp for event

-V

: show version

-v

: enable verbose mode

-q

: suppress start tracing message

-d

: dry run mode(register NULL callback to perf events)

-s

: simple event tracing

-b

: list byte codes

-le [glob]

: list pre-defined events in system

-lf DSO

: list available functions from DSO

-lm DSO

: list available sdt notes from DSO

file

: program read from script file

-- cmd [args]

: workload to tracing