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authorThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>2009-06-06 12:24:17 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-06-06 14:16:49 +0200
commit86847b62f0781ccc97a79936c9ed9dc818cff67b (patch)
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parent8326f44da090d6d304d29b9fdc7fb3e20889e329 (diff)
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perf_counter tools: Add 'perf list' to list available events
perf list: List all the available event types which can be used in -e (--event) options. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/perf_counter/builtin-top.c')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/perf_counter/builtin-top.c7
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/perf_counter/builtin-top.c b/Documentation/perf_counter/builtin-top.c
index 98a6d53e17b3..f2e7312f85c9 100644
--- a/Documentation/perf_counter/builtin-top.c
+++ b/Documentation/perf_counter/builtin-top.c
@@ -606,11 +606,10 @@ static const char * const top_usage[] = {
NULL
};
-static char events_help_msg[EVENTS_HELP_MAX];
-
static const struct option options[] = {
OPT_CALLBACK('e', "event", NULL, "event",
- events_help_msg, parse_events),
+ "event selector. use 'perf list' to list available events",
+ parse_events),
OPT_INTEGER('c', "count", &default_interval,
"event period to sample"),
OPT_INTEGER('p', "pid", &target_pid,
@@ -648,8 +647,6 @@ int cmd_top(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
page_size = sysconf(_SC_PAGE_SIZE);
- create_events_help(events_help_msg);
-
argc = parse_options(argc, argv, options, top_usage, 0);
if (argc)
usage_with_options(top_usage, options);