From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932445AbcFTWZC (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Jun 2016 18:25:02 -0400 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([198.137.202.9]:43101 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753343AbcFTWYi (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Jun 2016 18:24:38 -0400 From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo To: Ingo Molnar Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Wang Nan , Alexei Starovoitov , Jiri Olsa , pi3orama@163.com, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Subject: [PATCH 08/10] perf record: Add --dry-run option to check cmdline options Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2016 19:23:28 -0300 Message-Id: <1466461410-13778-9-git-send-email-acme@kernel.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.5.5 In-Reply-To: <1466461410-13778-1-git-send-email-acme@kernel.org> References: <1466461410-13778-1-git-send-email-acme@kernel.org> X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by bombadil.infradead.org. See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Wang Nan With '--dry-run', 'perf record' doesn't do reall recording. Combine with llvm.dump-obj option, --dry-run can be used to help compile BPF objects for embedded platform. Signed-off-by: Wang Nan Cc: Alexei Starovoitov Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: pi3orama@163.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1466064161-48553-3-git-send-email-wangnan0@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo --- tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt | 7 +++++++ tools/perf/builtin-record.c | 7 +++++++ 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+) diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt index 8dbee832abd9..5b46b1d1a37c 100644 --- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt +++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt @@ -360,6 +360,13 @@ particular perf.data snapshot should be kept or not. Implies --timestamp-filename, --no-buildid and --no-buildid-cache. +--dry-run:: +Parse options then exit. --dry-run can be used to detect errors in cmdline +options. + +'perf record --dry-run -e' can act as a BPF script compiler if llvm.dump-obj +in config file is set to true. + SEE ALSO -------- linkperf:perf-stat[1], linkperf:perf-list[1] diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c index d4cf1b0c88f9..b1304ebc8779 100644 --- a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c +++ b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c @@ -1274,6 +1274,8 @@ static struct record record = { const char record_callchain_help[] = CALLCHAIN_RECORD_HELP "\n\t\t\t\tDefault: fp"; +static bool dry_run; + /* * XXX Will stay a global variable till we fix builtin-script.c to stop messing * with it and switch to use the library functions in perf_evlist that came @@ -1393,6 +1395,8 @@ struct option __record_options[] = { "append timestamp to output filename"), OPT_BOOLEAN(0, "switch-output", &record.switch_output, "Switch output when receive SIGUSR2"), + OPT_BOOLEAN(0, "dry-run", &dry_run, + "Parse options then exit"), OPT_END() }; @@ -1462,6 +1466,9 @@ int cmd_record(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix __maybe_unused) if (err) return err; + if (dry_run) + return 0; + err = bpf__setup_stdout(rec->evlist); if (err) { bpf__strerror_setup_stdout(rec->evlist, err, errbuf, sizeof(errbuf)); -- 2.5.5