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| author | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2009-04-20 16:05:55 +0200 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2009-04-20 17:36:49 +0200 |
| commit | 6142fdd968c76a0f2ee753c39bd5be8d1bb4ef04 (patch) | |
| tree | c202ce98a48c78f880fe99afee28a8658ec8b60d /Documentation/perf_counter | |
| parent | cc13a5913797365b683212f5fca5fb04bb3582eb (diff) | |
perf_counter tools: add 'perf help'
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/perf_counter')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/perf_counter/Documentation/perf-help.txt | 38 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/perf_counter/builtin.h | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/perf_counter/perf.c | 1 |
3 files changed, 40 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/perf_counter/Documentation/perf-help.txt b/Documentation/perf_counter/Documentation/perf-help.txt new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..f85fed5a7ed --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/perf_counter/Documentation/perf-help.txt @@ -0,0 +1,38 @@ +perf-help(1) +=========== + +NAME +---- +perf-help - display help information about perf + +SYNOPSIS +-------- +'perf help' [-a|--all] [COMMAND] + +DESCRIPTION +----------- + +With no options and no COMMAND given, the synopsis of the 'perf' +command and a list of the most commonly used perf commands are printed +on the standard output. + +If the option '--all' or '-a' is given, then all available commands are +printed on the standard output. + +If a perf command is named, a manual page for that command is brought +up. The 'man' program is used by default for this purpose, but this +can be overridden by other options or configuration variables. + +Note that `perf --help ...` is identical to `perf help ...` because the +former is internally converted into the latter. + +OPTIONS +------- +-a:: +--all:: + Prints all the available commands on the standard output. This + option supersedes any other option. + +PERF +---- +Part of the linkperf:perf[1] suite diff --git a/Documentation/perf_counter/builtin.h b/Documentation/perf_counter/builtin.h index aec5ae388e6..800f86c1d44 100644 --- a/Documentation/perf_counter/builtin.h +++ b/Documentation/perf_counter/builtin.h @@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ extern void prune_packed_objects(int); extern int read_line_with_nul(char *buf, int size, FILE *file); extern int check_pager_config(const char *cmd); +extern int cmd_help(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix); extern int cmd_record(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix); extern int cmd_stat(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix); extern int cmd_top(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix); diff --git a/Documentation/perf_counter/perf.c b/Documentation/perf_counter/perf.c index 20d508c7729..8d6faecdc15 100644 --- a/Documentation/perf_counter/perf.c +++ b/Documentation/perf_counter/perf.c @@ -248,6 +248,7 @@ static void handle_internal_command(int argc, const char **argv) { const char *cmd = argv[0]; static struct cmd_struct commands[] = { + { "help", cmd_help, 0 }, { "record", cmd_record, 0 }, { "stat", cmd_stat, 0 }, { "top", cmd_top, 0 }, |