diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-probe.c b/tools/perf/builtin-probe.c
index b3ba25a..bfc47ff 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-probe.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-probe.c
@@ -133,7 +133,7 @@
 };
 
 static const struct option options[] = {
-	OPT_BOOLEAN('v', "verbose", &verbose,
+	OPT_INCR('v', "verbose", &verbose,
 		    "be more verbose (show parsed arguments, etc)"),
 	OPT_BOOLEAN('l', "list", &params.list_events,
 		    "list up current probe events"),