rameter --pid to process-wide collection instead of thread-wide Parameter --pid (or -p) of perf currently means a thread-wide collection. For exmaple, if a process whose id is 8888 has 10 threads, 'perf top -p 8888' just collects the main thread statistics. That's misleading. Users are used to attach a whole process when debugging a process by gdb. To follow normal usage style, the patch change --pid to process-wide collection and add --tid (-t) to mean a thread-wide collection. Usage example is: # perf top -p 8888 # perf record -p 8888 -f sleep 10 # perf stat -p 8888 -f sleep 10 Above commands collect the statistics of all threads of process 8888. Signed-off-by: Zhang Yanmin Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Avi Kivity Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Sheng Yang Cc: Joerg Roedel Cc: Jes Sorensen Cc: Marcelo Tosatti Cc: Gleb Natapov Cc: zhiteng.huang@intel.com Cc: Zachary Amsden LKML-Reference: <1268922965-14774-3-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar î