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From: Taeung Song <treeze.taeung@gmail.com>
To: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>,
	Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>, Nambong Ha <over3025@gmail.com>,
	Wookje Kwon <aweee0@gmail.com>,
	Taeung Song <treeze.taeung@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH 5/6] perf config: Document examples to set config variables with values in man page
Date: Fri,  4 Nov 2016 15:44:21 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1478241862-31230-6-git-send-email-treeze.taeung@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1478241862-31230-1-git-send-email-treeze.taeung@gmail.com>

Explain how to add or modify particular config items in config file
and how to set several config items from user or system config file
using '--user' or '--system' options.

Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Taeung Song <treeze.taeung@gmail.com>
---
 tools/perf/Documentation/perf-config.txt | 19 ++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-config.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-config.txt
index 1714b0c..9365b75 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-config.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-config.txt
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ perf-config - Get and set variables in a configuration file.
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
 [verse]
-'perf config' [<file-option>] [section.name ...]
+'perf config' [<file-option>] [section.name[=value] ...]
 or
 'perf config' [<file-option>] -l | --list
 
@@ -120,6 +120,23 @@ Given a $HOME/.perfconfig like this:
 		children = true
 		group = true
 
+You can hide source code of annotate feature setting the config to false with
+
+	% perf config annotate.hide_src_code=true
+
+If you want to add or modify several config items, you can do like
+
+	% perf config ui.show-headers=false kmem.default=slab
+
+To modify the sort order of report functionality in user config file(i.e. `~/.perfconfig`), do
+
+	% perf config --user report sort-order=srcline
+
+To change colors of selected line to other foreground and background colors
+in system config file (i.e. `$(sysconf)/perfconfig`), do
+
+	% perf config --system colors.selected=yellow,green
+
 To query the record mode of call graph, do
 
 	% perf config call-graph.record-mode
-- 
2.7.4

  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-11-04  6:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-11-04  6:44 [PATCH 0/6] perf config: Add support for setting and getting functionalities Taeung Song
2016-11-04  6:44 ` [PATCH 1/6] perf config: Add support for getting config key-value pairs Taeung Song
2016-11-14 15:50   ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2016-11-14 16:21     ` Taeung Song
2016-11-28  9:02     ` Taeung Song
2016-11-15 10:44   ` [tip:perf/core] " tip-bot for Taeung Song
2016-11-04  6:44 ` [PATCH 2/6] perf config: Document examples to get config key-value pairs in man page Taeung Song
2016-11-14 15:51   ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2016-11-14 16:30     ` Taeung Song
2016-11-04  6:44 ` [PATCH 3/6] perf config: Parse config variable arguments before getting functionality Taeung Song
2016-11-15 10:44   ` [tip:perf/core] perf config: Validate config variable arguments before trying use them tip-bot for Taeung Song
2016-11-04  6:44 ` [PATCH 4/6] perf config: Add support for writing configs to a config file Taeung Song
2016-11-14 16:04   ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2016-11-14 17:00     ` Taeung Song
2016-11-15  1:49       ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2016-11-15  2:28         ` Taeung Song
2016-11-15 10:45   ` [tip:perf/core] perf config: Add support setting variables in " tip-bot for Taeung Song
2016-11-04  6:44 ` Taeung Song [this message]
2016-11-04  6:44 ` [PATCH 6/6] perf config: Mark where are config items from (user or system) Taeung Song
2016-11-15 10:46   ` [tip:perf/core] " tip-bot for Taeung Song

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