Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | From | Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <> | Subject | [PATCH 5/8] perf record: Fix documentation for a inexistent option '-l' | Date | Thu, 19 Oct 2017 14:45:12 -0300 |
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From: Taeung Song <treeze.taeung@gmail.com>
'perf record' had a '-l' option that meant "scale counter values" a very long time ago, but it currently belongs to 'perf stat' as '-c'. So remove it. I found this problem in the below case.
$ perf record -e cycles -l sleep 3 Error: unknown switch `l
Signed-off-by: Taeung Song <treeze.taeung@gmail.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1507907412-19813-1-git-send-email-treeze.taeung@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> --- tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt index e397453e5a46..63526f4416ea 100644 --- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt +++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt @@ -8,8 +8,8 @@ perf-record - Run a command and record its profile into perf.data SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] -'perf record' [-e <EVENT> | --event=EVENT] [-l] [-a] <command> -'perf record' [-e <EVENT> | --event=EVENT] [-l] [-a] -- <command> [<options>] +'perf record' [-e <EVENT> | --event=EVENT] [-a] <command> +'perf record' [-e <EVENT> | --event=EVENT] [-a] -- <command> [<options>] DESCRIPTION ----------- -- 2.13.6
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