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@@ -596,6 +596,22 @@ options.
'perf record --dry-run -e' can act as a BPF script compiler if llvm.dump-obj
in config file is set to true.
+--synth=TYPE::
+Collect and synthesize given type of events (comma separated). Note that
+this option controls the synthesis from the /proc filesystem which represent
+task status for pre-existing threads.
+
+Kernel (and some other) events are recorded regardless of the
+choice in this option. For example, --synth=no would have MMAP events for
+kernel and modules.
+
+Available types are:
+ 'task' - synthesize FORK and COMM events for each task
+ 'mmap' - synthesize MMAP events for each process (implies 'task')
+ 'cgroup' - synthesize CGROUP events for each cgroup
+ 'all' - synthesize all events (default)
+ 'no' - do not synthesize any of the above events
+
--tail-synthesize::
Instead of collecting non-sample events (for example, fork, comm, mmap) at
the beginning of record, collect them during finalizing an output file.