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author | Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> | 2019-12-02 15:38:59 -0300 |
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committer | Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> | 2019-12-02 15:38:59 -0300 |
commit | 9974406884459c9301597c2c9f7def6c38099ab4 (patch) | |
tree | a9e3ab467da636e775ad7ce4d5ff1f5c0688afc1 /tools/perf/Documentation | |
parent | a717ab38a51404a3f7069987f77676cde82139ac (diff) | |
download | linux-9974406884459c9301597c2c9f7def6c38099ab4.tar.bz2 |
perf kvm: Clarify the 'perf kvm' -i and -o command line options
The 'perf kvm' subcommand has options that it in turn passes to other
perf subcommands such as 'report' and 'record', particularly -i and -o
end up setting the same variable that will then be used for 'record's -o
and report '-i', which ends up being confusing, leading some to think
that both -i and -o can be used with 'report'.
Improve the man page to state that -i is used with the post-processing
subcommands while -o is used just with 'record' and that to save the
output of 'report' one should simply redirect its output to a file.
Noticed while reading the https://www.linux-kvm.org/page/Perf_events
page.
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com>
Cc: William Cohen <wcohen@redhat.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-tclbttvmgtm525fvmh85f7d9@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/perf/Documentation')
-rw-r--r-- | tools/perf/Documentation/perf-kvm.txt | 5 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-kvm.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-kvm.txt index 6a5bb2b17039..cf95baef7b61 100644 --- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-kvm.txt +++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-kvm.txt @@ -68,10 +68,11 @@ OPTIONS ------- -i:: --input=<path>:: - Input file name. + Input file name, for the 'report', 'diff' and 'buildid-list' subcommands. -o:: --output=<path>:: - Output file name. + Output file name, for the 'record' subcommand. Doesn't work with 'report', + just redirect the output to a file when using 'report'. --host:: Collect host side performance profile. --guest:: |