linux-kernel - [PATCH v10 07/22] perf config: Document variables for 'help' section in man page

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Date:	Mon,  9 Nov 2015 11:33:00 +0900
From:	Taeung Song <treeze.taeung@...il.com>
To:	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	Taeung Song <treeze.taeung@...il.com>,
	Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>,
	Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>
Subject: [PATCH v10 07/22] perf config: Document variables for 'help' section in man page

Explain 'help.format' and 'help.autocorrect' variables.

Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>
Signed-off-by: Taeung Song <treeze.taeung@...il.com>
---
 tools/perf/Documentation/perf-config.txt | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+)

diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-config.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-config.txt
index 11fd4b2..e47be25 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-config.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-config.txt
@@ -242,6 +242,27 @@ annotate.*::
 
 		│1 1382:   movb   $0x1,-0x270(%rbp)
 
+help.*::
+	help.format:: = man
+		A format of manual page can be 'man', 'info', 'web' or 'html'.
+		'man' is default.
+	help.autocorrect:: = 0
+		Automatically correct and execute mistyped commands after
+		waiting for the given number of deciseconds (0.1 sec).
+		Let's see a example. If a mistyped sub-command is executed like 'perf mistyped-command'
+		and this option is 0, the output is as below.
+
+		perf: 'mistyped-command' is not a perf-command. See 'perf --help'.
+
+		Or if this option is more than 1, the output can be such as.
+
+		WARNING: You called a perf program named 'mistyped-command', which does not exist.
+		Continuing under the assumption that you meant 'with-kcore'
+		in 0.1 seconds automatically...
+		Usage: perf-with-kcore <perf sub-command> <perf.data directory> [<sub-command options> [ -- <workload>]]
+		<perf sub-command> can be record, script, report or inject
+		    or: perf-with-kcore fix_buildid_cache_permissions
+
 SEE ALSO
 --------
 linkperf:perf[1]
-- 
1.9.1

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