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| author | Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> | 2019-03-14 23:49:56 +0100 |
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| committer | Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> | 2019-03-19 20:15:42 +0100 |
| commit | c38dab7df7ee4fdecd51e390d4d33d5ef5cff49d (patch) | |
| tree | b6390ed2477e630a12e930524adfa2f9740166d6 /tools | |
| parent | perf record: Allow to limit number of reported perf.data files (diff) | |
| download | linux-c38dab7df7ee4fdecd51e390d4d33d5ef5cff49d.tar.xz linux-c38dab7df7ee4fdecd51e390d4d33d5ef5cff49d.zip | |
perf record: Clarify help for --switch-output
The help description for --switch-output looks like there are multiple
comma separated fields. But it's actually a choice of different options.
Make it clear and less confusing.
Before:
% perf record -h
...
--switch-output[=<signal,size,time>]
Switch output when receive SIGUSR2 or cross size,time threshold
After:
% perf record -h
...
--switch-output[=<signal or size[BKMG] or time[smhd]>]
Switch output when receiving SIGUSR2 (signal) or cross a size or time threshold
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
LPU-Reference: 20190314225002.30108-4-andi@firstfloor.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-9yecyuha04nyg8toyd1b2pgi@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools')
| -rw-r--r-- | tools/perf/builtin-record.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c index 02d7c40b2d10..e7144a1c1c82 100644 --- a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c +++ b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c @@ -1989,8 +1989,8 @@ static struct option __record_options[] = { OPT_BOOLEAN(0, "timestamp-boundary", &record.timestamp_boundary, "Record timestamp boundary (time of first/last samples)"), OPT_STRING_OPTARG_SET(0, "switch-output", &record.switch_output.str, - &record.switch_output.set, "signal,size,time", - "Switch output when receive SIGUSR2 or cross size,time threshold", + &record.switch_output.set, "signal or size[BKMG] or time[smhd]", + "Switch output when receiving SIGUSR2 (signal) or cross a size or time threshold", "signal"), OPT_INTEGER(0, "switch-max-files", &record.switch_output.num_files, "Limit number of switch output generated files"), |