perf tools: Provide help for subset of options
authorArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Fri, 23 Oct 2015 16:27:39 +0000 (13:27 -0300)
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Sat, 24 Oct 2015 00:50:50 +0000 (21:50 -0300)
commit161d9041782b86c5493481566539bfc058ceeaff
tree473e96f38af8c9e5a6bfd99ef20c021584168343
parent869c55b0f473fecfe6c294c6fa965dedfe469e02
perf tools: Provide help for subset of options

Some tools have a lot of options, so, providing a way to show help just
for some of them may come handy:

  $ perf report -h --tui

   Usage: perf report [<options>]

        --tui             Use the TUI interface

  $ perf report -h --tui --showcpuutilization -b -c

   Usage: perf report [<options>]

    -b, --branch-stack    use branch records for per branch histogram filling
    -c, --comms <comm[,comm...]>
                          only consider symbols in these comms
        --showcpuutilization
                          Show sample percentage for different cpu modes
        --tui             Use the TUI interface

  $

Using it with perf bash completion is also handy, just make sure you
source the needed file:

  $ . ~/git/linux/tools/perf/perf-completion.sh

Then press tab/tab after -- to see a list of options, put them after -h
and only the options chosen will have its help presented:

  $ perf report -h --
  --asm-raw              --demangle-kernel      --group
  --kallsyms             --pretty               --stdio
  --branch-history       --disassembler-style   --gtk
  --max-stack            --showcpuutilization   --symbol-filter
  --branch-stack         --dsos                 --header
  --mem-mode             --show-info            --symbols
  --call-graph           --dump-raw-trace       --header-only
  --modules              --show-nr-samples      --symfs
  --children             --exclude-other        --hide-unresolved
  --objdump              --show-ref-call-graph  --threads
  --column-widths        --fields               --ignore-callees
  --parent               --show-total-period    --tid
  --comms                --field-separator      --input
  --percentage           --socket-filter        --tui
  --cpu                  --force                --inverted
  --percent-limit        --sort                 --verbose
  --demangle             --full-source-path     --itrace
  --pid                  --source               --vmlinux
  $ perf report -h --socket-filter

   Usage: perf report [<options>]

      --socket-filter <n>
                  only show processor socket that match with this filter

Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Brendan Gregg <brendan.d.gregg@gmail.com>
Cc: Chandler Carruth <chandlerc@gmail.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-83mcdd3wj0379jcgea8w0fxa@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
tools/perf/util/parse-options.c