Commit 99f63817 authored by Zejiang Tang's avatar Zejiang Tang Committed by Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
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perf docs: Improve help information in perf.txt



perf has many undocumented options, such as:-vv, --exec-path,
--html-path, -p, --paginate,--no-pager, --debugfs-dir, --buildid-dir,
--list-cmds, --list-opts.

Add entris for these options in perf.txt.

Signed-off-by: default avatarZejiang Tang <tangzejiang@loongson.cn>
Acked-by: default avatarNamhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@linux.ibm.com>
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1599645194-8438-1-git-send-email-tangzejiang@loongson.cn


Signed-off-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
parent a803fbe6
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@@ -12,6 +12,43 @@ SYNOPSIS

OPTIONS
-------
-h::
--help::
        Run perf help command.

-v::
--version::
        Display perf version.

-vv::
        Print the compiled-in status of libraries.

--exec-path::
        Display or set exec path.

--html-path::
        Display html documentation path.

-p::
--paginate::
        Set up pager.

--no-pager::
        Do not set pager.

--buildid-dir::
        Setup buildid cache directory. It has higher priority
        than buildid.dir config file option.

--list-cmds::
        List the most commonly used perf commands.

--list-opts::
        List available perf options.

--debugfs-dir::
        Set debugfs directory or set environment variable PERF_DEBUGFS_DIR.

--debug::
        Setup debug variable (see list below) in value
        range (0, 10). Use like:
@@ -27,18 +64,6 @@ OPTIONS
          perf-event-open  - Print perf_event_open() arguments and
                             return value

--buildid-dir::
	Setup buildid cache directory. It has higher priority than
	buildid.dir config file option.

-v::
--version::
  Display perf version.

-h::
--help::
  Run perf help command.

DESCRIPTION
-----------
Performance counters for Linux are a new kernel-based subsystem