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authorAndi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>2018-09-13 20:10:31 -0700
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2018-09-19 15:06:59 -0300
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perf tools: Report itrace options in help
I often forget all the options that --itrace accepts. Instead of burying them in the man page only report them in the normal command line help too to make them easier accessible. v2: Align Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Kim Phillips <kim.phillips@arm.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180914031038.4160-2-andi@firstfloor.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools')
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/builtin-inject.c3
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/builtin-report.c2
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/builtin-script.c2
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/util/auxtrace.h19
4 files changed, 23 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-inject.c b/tools/perf/builtin-inject.c
index b4a29f435b06..eda41673c4f3 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-inject.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-inject.c
@@ -798,7 +798,8 @@ int cmd_inject(int argc, const char **argv)
"kallsyms pathname"),
OPT_BOOLEAN('f', "force", &data.force, "don't complain, do it"),
OPT_CALLBACK_OPTARG(0, "itrace", &inject.itrace_synth_opts,
- NULL, "opts", "Instruction Tracing options",
+ NULL, "opts", "Instruction Tracing options\n"
+ ITRACE_HELP,
itrace_parse_synth_opts),
OPT_BOOLEAN(0, "strip", &inject.strip,
"strip non-synthesized events (use with --itrace)"),
diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-report.c b/tools/perf/builtin-report.c
index 7507e4d6dce1..c0703979c51d 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-report.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-report.c
@@ -1104,7 +1104,7 @@ int cmd_report(int argc, const char **argv)
OPT_CALLBACK(0, "percentage", NULL, "relative|absolute",
"how to display percentage of filtered entries", parse_filter_percentage),
OPT_CALLBACK_OPTARG(0, "itrace", &itrace_synth_opts, NULL, "opts",
- "Instruction Tracing options",
+ "Instruction Tracing options\n" ITRACE_HELP,
itrace_parse_synth_opts),
OPT_BOOLEAN(0, "full-source-path", &srcline_full_filename,
"Show full source file name path for source lines"),
diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-script.c b/tools/perf/builtin-script.c
index 765391b6c88c..66699dd351e0 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-script.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-script.c
@@ -3193,7 +3193,7 @@ int cmd_script(int argc, const char **argv)
OPT_BOOLEAN(0, "ns", &nanosecs,
"Use 9 decimal places when displaying time"),
OPT_CALLBACK_OPTARG(0, "itrace", &itrace_synth_opts, NULL, "opts",
- "Instruction Tracing options",
+ "Instruction Tracing options\n" ITRACE_HELP,
itrace_parse_synth_opts),
OPT_BOOLEAN(0, "full-source-path", &srcline_full_filename,
"Show full source file name path for source lines"),
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/auxtrace.h b/tools/perf/util/auxtrace.h
index a86b7eab6673..0a6ce9c4fc11 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/auxtrace.h
+++ b/tools/perf/util/auxtrace.h
@@ -576,6 +576,23 @@ static inline void auxtrace__free(struct perf_session *session)
return session->auxtrace->free(session);
}
+#define ITRACE_HELP \
+" i: synthesize instructions events\n" \
+" b: synthesize branches events\n" \
+" c: synthesize branches events (calls only)\n" \
+" r: synthesize branches events (returns only)\n" \
+" x: synthesize transactions events\n" \
+" w: synthesize ptwrite events\n" \
+" p: synthesize power events\n" \
+" e: synthesize error events\n" \
+" d: create a debug log\n" \
+" g[len]: synthesize a call chain (use with i or x)\n" \
+" l[len]: synthesize last branch entries (use with i or x)\n" \
+" sNUMBER: skip initial number of events\n" \
+" PERIOD[ns|us|ms|i|t]: specify period to sample stream\n" \
+" concatenate multiple options. Default is ibxwpe or cewp\n"
+
+
#else
static inline struct auxtrace_record *
@@ -716,6 +733,8 @@ void auxtrace_mmap_params__set_idx(struct auxtrace_mmap_params *mp,
struct perf_evlist *evlist, int idx,
bool per_cpu);
+#define ITRACE_HELP ""
+
#endif
#endif