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Message-Id: <1479111702-5989-3-git-send-email-treeze.taeung@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2016 17:21:37 +0900
From: Taeung Song <treeze.taeung@...il.com>
To: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org>,
Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
Wang Nan <wangnan0@...wei.com>,
Taeung Song <treeze.taeung@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2 2/7] perf config: Document examples getting config info in man page
Explain how to query particular config items in config file
and how to get several config items from user or system config file
using '--user' or '--system' options.
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org>
Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@...wei.com>
Signed-off-by: Taeung Song <treeze.taeung@...il.com>
---
tools/perf/Documentation/perf-config.txt | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 18 insertions(+)
diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-config.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-config.txt
index cb081ac5..1714b0c 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-config.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-config.txt
@@ -8,6 +8,8 @@ perf-config - Get and set variables in a configuration file.
SYNOPSIS
--------
[verse]
+'perf config' [<file-option>] [section.name ...]
+or
'perf config' [<file-option>] -l | --list
DESCRIPTION
@@ -118,6 +120,22 @@ Given a $HOME/.perfconfig like this:
children = true
group = true
+To query the record mode of call graph, do
+
+ % perf config call-graph.record-mode
+
+If you want to know multiple config key/value pairs, you can do like
+
+ % perf config report.queue-size call-graph.order report.children
+
+To query the config value of sort order of call graph in user config file (i.e. `~/.perfconfig`), do
+
+ % perf config --user call-graph.sort-order
+
+To query the config value of buildid directory in system config file (i.e. `$(sysconf)/perfconfig`), do
+
+ % perf config --system buildid.dir
+
Variables
~~~~~~~~~
--
2.7.4
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