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authorArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2015-04-23 12:02:07 -0300
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2015-04-29 10:38:04 -0300
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perf trace: Clarify that -e is about syscalls, not perf events in general
This comes from the desire of having -e/--expr to have the same meaning as for 'strace', while other perf tools use it for --event, which 'trace' honours, i.e. all perf tools have --event in common, but trace uses -e for strace's --expr. Clarify it in the --help output. Reported-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-5j94bcsdmcbeu2xthnzsj60d@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-trace.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-trace.txt
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+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-trace.txt
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ OPTIONS
-e::
--expr::
- List of events to show, currently only syscall names.
+ List of syscalls to show, currently only syscall names.
Prefixing with ! shows all syscalls but the ones specified. You may
need to escape it.
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