From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Subject: [PATCH 03/28] perf config: Document the PERF_CONFIG environment variable Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2019 15:40:26 -0300 Message-ID: <20190814184051.3125-4-acme@kernel.org> References: <20190814184051.3125-1-acme@kernel.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20190814184051.3125-1-acme@kernel.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Ingo Molnar , Thomas Gleixner Cc: Jiri Olsa , Namhyung Kim , Clark Williams , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo , Adrian Hunter , =?UTF-8?q?Luis=20Cl=C3=A1udio=20Gon=C3=A7alves?= , Taeung Song List-Id: linux-perf-users.vger.kernel.org From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo There was a provision for setting this variable, but not the getenv("PERF_CONFIG") call to set it, as this was fixed in the previous cset, document that it can be used to ask for using an alternative .perfconfig file or to disable reading whatever file exists in the system or home directory, i.e. using: export PERF_CONFIG=/dev/null Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Luis Cláudio Gonçalves Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Taeung Song Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-0u4o967hsk7j0o50zp9ctn89@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo --- tools/perf/Documentation/perf-config.txt | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-config.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-config.txt index e4aa268d2e38..c599623a1f3d 100644 --- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-config.txt +++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-config.txt @@ -40,6 +40,10 @@ The '$HOME/.perfconfig' file is used to store a per-user configuration. The file '$(sysconfdir)/perfconfig' can be used to store a system-wide default configuration. +One an disable reading config files by setting the PERF_CONFIG environment +variable to /dev/null, or provide an alternate config file by setting that +variable. + When reading or writing, the values are read from the system and user configuration files by default, and options '--system' and '--user' can be used to tell the command to read from or write to only that location. -- 2.21.0