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authorAndi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>2016-09-15 15:24:45 -0700
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2016-10-03 21:35:45 -0300
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perf list: Add a --no-desc flag
Add a --no-desc flag to 'perf list' to not print the event descriptions that were earlier added for JSON events. This may be useful to get a less crowded listing. It's still default to print descriptions as that is the more useful default for most users. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1473978296-20712-9-git-send-email-sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-list.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-list.txt
index a126e97a8114..72209bc0f523 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-list.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-list.txt
@@ -8,13 +8,19 @@ perf-list - List all symbolic event types
SYNOPSIS
--------
[verse]
-'perf list' [hw|sw|cache|tracepoint|pmu|event_glob]
+'perf list' [--no-desc] [hw|sw|cache|tracepoint|pmu|event_glob]
DESCRIPTION
-----------
This command displays the symbolic event types which can be selected in the
various perf commands with the -e option.
+OPTIONS
+-------
+--no-desc::
+Don't print descriptions.
+
+
[[EVENT_MODIFIERS]]
EVENT MODIFIERS
---------------