perf list: Add usage
Currently 'perf list' is not very helpful if you forget the syntax:
$ perf list -h
List of pre-defined events (to be used in -e):
After:
$ perf list -h
usage: perf list [hw|sw|cache|tracepoint|pmu|event_glob]
Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/527133AD.4030003@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-list.c b/tools/perf/builtin-list.c
index 45000e7..011195e 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-list.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-list.c
@@ -14,20 +14,31 @@
#include "util/parse-events.h"
#include "util/cache.h"
#include "util/pmu.h"
+#include "util/parse-options.h"
int cmd_list(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix __maybe_unused)
{
int i;
+ const struct option list_options[] = {
+ OPT_END()
+ };
+ const char * const list_usage[] = {
+ "perf list [hw|sw|cache|tracepoint|pmu|event_glob]",
+ NULL
+ };
+
+ argc = parse_options(argc, argv, list_options, list_usage,
+ PARSE_OPT_STOP_AT_NON_OPTION);
setup_pager();
- if (argc == 1) {
+ if (argc == 0) {
print_events(NULL, false);
return 0;
}
- for (i = 1; i < argc; ++i) {
- if (i > 2)
+ for (i = 0; i < argc; ++i) {
+ if (i)
putchar('\n');
if (strncmp(argv[i], "tracepoint", 10) == 0)
print_tracepoint_events(NULL, NULL, false);