From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752552AbbJESGo (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Oct 2015 14:06:44 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:34905 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752313AbbJESGl (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Oct 2015 14:06:41 -0400 From: Jiri Olsa To: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: lkml , David Ahern , Ingo Molnar , Namhyung Kim , Peter Zijlstra , "Liang, Kan" , Don Zickus Subject: [PATCH 9/9] perf tools: Handle -h and -v options Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2015 20:06:09 +0200 Message-Id: <1444068369-20978-10-git-send-email-jolsa@kernel.org> In-Reply-To: <1444068369-20978-1-git-send-email-jolsa@kernel.org> References: <1444068369-20978-1-git-send-email-jolsa@kernel.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Adding handling for '-h' and '-v' options to invoke help and version command respectively. Current behaviour is: $ perf -v Unknown option: -v Usage: perf [--version] [--help] [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARGS] $ perf -h Unknown option: -h Usage: perf [--version] [--help] [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARGS] New behaviour: $ perf -h usage: perf [--version] [--help] [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARGS] The most commonly used perf commands are: annotate Read perf.data (created by perf record) and display annotated code archive Create archive with object files with build-ids found in perf.data file bench General framework for benchmark suites ... $ perf -v perf version 4.3.rc3.gc99e32 Updated man page. Requested-by: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-u1hue2aw89yif5xaqbsmthlv@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa --- tools/perf/Documentation/perf.txt | 8 ++++++++ tools/perf/perf.c | 14 ++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 22 insertions(+) diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf.txt index 2b131776363e..864e37597252 100644 --- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf.txt +++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf.txt @@ -27,6 +27,14 @@ OPTIONS Setup buildid cache directory. It has higher priority than buildid.dir config file option. +-v:: +--version:: + Display perf version. + +-h:: +--help:: + Run perf help command. + DESCRIPTION ----------- Performance counters for Linux are a new kernel-based subsystem diff --git a/tools/perf/perf.c b/tools/perf/perf.c index 1fded922bcc8..543713422d14 100644 --- a/tools/perf/perf.c +++ b/tools/perf/perf.c @@ -162,6 +162,20 @@ static int handle_options(const char ***argv, int *argc, int *envchanged) break; /* + * Shortcut for '-h' and '-v' options to invoke help + * and version command. + */ + if (!strcmp(cmd, "-h")) { + (*argv)[0] = "--help"; + break; + } + + if (!strcmp(cmd, "-v")) { + (*argv)[0] = "--version"; + break; + } + + /* * Check remaining flags. */ if (!prefixcmp(cmd, CMD_EXEC_PATH)) { -- 2.4.3