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-rw-r--r--tools/perf/util/parse-options.h3
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/parse-options.h b/tools/perf/util/parse-options.h
index 1231960d6148..d1544069c7c0 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/parse-options.h
+++ b/tools/perf/util/parse-options.h
@@ -152,6 +152,9 @@ struct option {
/* parse_options() will filter out the processed options and leave the
* non-option argments in argv[].
* Returns the number of arguments left in argv[].
+ *
+ * NOTE: parse_options() and parse_options_subcommand() may call exit() in the
+ * case of an error (or for 'special' options like --list-cmds or --list-opts).
*/
extern int parse_options(int argc, const char **argv,
const struct option *options,