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Date:	Tue, 5 May 2015 20:07:29 -0700
From:	tip-bot for Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <tipbot@...or.com>
To:	linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	dzickus@...hat.com, dsahern@...il.com, jolsa@...hat.com,
	namhyung@...nel.org, mingo@...nel.org, acme@...hat.com, bp@...e.de,
	fweisbec@...il.com, hpa@...or.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	adrian.hunter@...el.com, eranian@...gle.com, tglx@...utronix.de
Subject: [tip:perf/core] perf trace: Clarify that -e is about syscalls,
  not perf events in general

Commit-ID:  d303e85a5c19eb8d913951d1aa81556fc20b20af
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/d303e85a5c19eb8d913951d1aa81556fc20b20af
Author:     Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>
AuthorDate: Thu, 23 Apr 2015 12:02:07 -0300
Committer:  Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>
CommitDate: Wed, 29 Apr 2015 10:38:04 -0300

perf trace: Clarify that -e is about syscalls, not perf events in general

This comes from the desire of having -e/--expr to have the same meaning
as for 'strace', while other perf tools use it for --event, which
'trace' honours, i.e. all perf tools have --event in common, but trace
uses -e for strace's --expr.

Clarify it in the --help output.

Reported-by: David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@...el.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>
Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@...hat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@...gle.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-5j94bcsdmcbeu2xthnzsj60d@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>
---
 tools/perf/Documentation/perf-trace.txt | 2 +-
 tools/perf/builtin-trace.c              | 3 +--
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-trace.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-trace.txt
index ba03fd5..1db9c8b 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-trace.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-trace.txt
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ OPTIONS
 
 -e::
 --expr::
-	List of events to show, currently only syscall names.
+	List of syscalls to show, currently only syscall names.
 	Prefixing with ! shows all syscalls but the ones specified.  You may
 	need to escape it.
 
diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-trace.c b/tools/perf/builtin-trace.c
index 23fb081..d1139b6 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-trace.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-trace.c
@@ -2660,8 +2660,7 @@ int cmd_trace(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix __maybe_unused)
 	OPT_BOOLEAN(0, "comm", &trace.show_comm,
 		    "show the thread COMM next to its id"),
 	OPT_BOOLEAN(0, "tool_stats", &trace.show_tool_stats, "show tool stats"),
-	OPT_STRING('e', "expr", &ev_qualifier_str, "expr",
-		    "list of events to trace"),
+	OPT_STRING('e', "expr", &ev_qualifier_str, "expr", "list of syscalls to trace"),
 	OPT_STRING('o', "output", &output_name, "file", "output file name"),
 	OPT_STRING('i', "input", &input_name, "file", "Analyze events in file"),
 	OPT_STRING('p', "pid", &trace.opts.target.pid, "pid",
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