perf list: Add a --no-desc flag

Add a --no-desc flag to 'perf list' to not print the event descriptions
that were earlier added for JSON events. This may be useful to get a
less crowded listing.

It's still default to print descriptions as that is the more useful
default for most users.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1473978296-20712-9-git-send-email-sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
This commit is contained in:
Andi Kleen
2016-09-15 15:24:45 -07:00
committed by Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
parent 61eb2eb434
commit 1c5f01fe86
6 changed files with 22 additions and 12 deletions

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@@ -8,13 +8,19 @@ perf-list - List all symbolic event types
SYNOPSIS
--------
[verse]
'perf list' [hw|sw|cache|tracepoint|pmu|event_glob]
'perf list' [--no-desc] [hw|sw|cache|tracepoint|pmu|event_glob]
DESCRIPTION
-----------
This command displays the symbolic event types which can be selected in the
various perf commands with the -e option.
OPTIONS
-------
--no-desc::
Don't print descriptions.
[[EVENT_MODIFIERS]]
EVENT MODIFIERS
---------------