From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Subject: [PATCH 03/44] perf record: Clarify help for --switch-output Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2019 15:51:01 -0300 Message-ID: <20190321185142.11441-4-acme@kernel.org> References: <20190321185142.11441-1-acme@kernel.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20190321185142.11441-1-acme@kernel.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Ingo Molnar Cc: Jiri Olsa , Namhyung Kim , Clark Williams , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org, Andi Kleen , Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo List-Id: linux-perf-users.vger.kernel.org From: Andi Kleen The help description for --switch-output looks like there are multiple comma separated fields. But it's actually a choice of different options. Make it clear and less confusing. Before: % perf record -h ... --switch-output[=] Switch output when receive SIGUSR2 or cross size,time threshold After: % perf record -h ... --switch-output[=] Switch output when receiving SIGUSR2 (signal) or cross a size or time threshold Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen Acked-by: Jiri Olsa LPU-Reference: 20190314225002.30108-4-andi@firstfloor.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-9yecyuha04nyg8toyd1b2pgi@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo --- tools/perf/builtin-record.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c index 02d7c40b2d10..e7144a1c1c82 100644 --- a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c +++ b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c @@ -1989,8 +1989,8 @@ static struct option __record_options[] = { OPT_BOOLEAN(0, "timestamp-boundary", &record.timestamp_boundary, "Record timestamp boundary (time of first/last samples)"), OPT_STRING_OPTARG_SET(0, "switch-output", &record.switch_output.str, - &record.switch_output.set, "signal,size,time", - "Switch output when receive SIGUSR2 or cross size,time threshold", + &record.switch_output.set, "signal or size[BKMG] or time[smhd]", + "Switch output when receiving SIGUSR2 (signal) or cross a size or time threshold", "signal"), OPT_INTEGER(0, "switch-max-files", &record.switch_output.num_files, "Limit number of switch output generated files"), -- 2.20.1