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authorWang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>2016-06-16 08:02:41 +0000
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2016-06-21 13:18:35 -0300
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perf record: Add --dry-run option to check cmdline options
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 <wangnan0@huawei.com> Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> 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 <acme@redhat.com>
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@@ -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]
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