perf tools: Improve call graph documents and help messages
The --call-graph option is complex so we should provide better guide for
users. Also change help message to be consistent with config option
names. Now perf top will show help like below:
$ perf top --call-graph
Error: option `call-graph' requires a value
Usage: perf top [<options>]
--call-graph <record_mode[,record_size],print_type,threshold[,print_limit],order,sort_key[,branch]>
setup and enables call-graph (stack chain/backtrace):
record_mode: call graph recording mode (fp|dwarf|lbr)
record_size: if record_mode is 'dwarf', max size of stack recording (<bytes>)
default: 8192 (bytes)
print_type: call graph printing style (graph|flat|fractal|none)
threshold: minimum call graph inclusion threshold (<percent>)
print_limit: maximum number of call graph entry (<number>)
order: call graph order (caller|callee)
sort_key: call graph sort key (function|address)
branch: include last branch info to call graph (branch)
Default: fp,graph,0.5,caller,function
Requested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Brendan Gregg <brendan.d.gregg@gmail.com>
Cc: Chandler Carruth <chandlerc@gmail.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1445524112-5201-2-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
index 1a11762..2740d7a 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
@@ -1010,7 +1010,8 @@
},
};
-const char record_callchain_help[] = CALLCHAIN_RECORD_HELP;
+const char record_callchain_help[] = CALLCHAIN_RECORD_HELP
+ "\n\t\t\t\tDefault: fp";
/*
* XXX Will stay a global variable till we fix builtin-script.c to stop messing
@@ -1058,7 +1059,7 @@
NULL, "enables call-graph recording" ,
&record_callchain_opt),
OPT_CALLBACK(0, "call-graph", &record.opts,
- "mode[,dump_size]", record_callchain_help,
+ "record_mode[,record_size]", record_callchain_help,
&record_parse_callchain_opt),
OPT_INCR('v', "verbose", &verbose,
"be more verbose (show counter open errors, etc)"),