linux-kernel - [PATCH 70/73] perf docs: Add description for stderr

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Message-Id: <20190517193611.4974-71-acme@kernel.org>
Date:   Fri, 17 May 2019 16:36:08 -0300
From:   Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>
To:     Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc:     Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org>, Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>,
        Clark Williams <williams@...hat.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-perf-users@...r.kernel.org,
        Thomas Richter <tmricht@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>,
        Hendrik Brueckner <brueckner@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>,
        Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>
Subject: [PATCH 70/73] perf docs: Add description for stderr

From: Thomas Richter <tmricht@...ux.ibm.com>

'perf report' displays recorded data on the screen and emits warnings
and debug messages in the status line (last one on screen).

perf also supports the possibility to write all debug messages to stderr
(instead of writing them to the status line).

This is achieved with the following command:

  # ./perf --debug stderr=1 report -vvvvv -i ~/fast.data 2>/tmp/2
  # ll /tmp/2
  -rw-rw-r-- 1 tmricht tmricht 5420835 May  7 13:46 /tmp/2
  #

The usage of variable stderr=1 is not documented, so add it to the perf
man page.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Richter <tmricht@...ux.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>
Cc: Hendrik Brueckner <brueckner@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190513080220.91966-1-tmricht@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>
---
 tools/perf/Documentation/perf.txt | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf.txt
index 864e37597252..401f0ed67439 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf.txt
@@ -22,6 +22,8 @@ OPTIONS
 	  verbose          - general debug messages
 	  ordered-events   - ordered events object debug messages
 	  data-convert     - data convert command debug messages
+	  stderr           - write debug output (option -v) to stderr
+	                     in browser mode
 
 --buildid-dir::
 	Setup buildid cache directory. It has higher priority than
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