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authorTaeung Song <treeze.taeung@gmail.com>2017-10-14 00:10:12 +0900
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2017-10-17 09:05:36 -0300
commit3f50f614d61f91ad30b1947c429d1f235493a7f9 (patch)
tree211e96f3ff22d44ebcc32c3f5a942ab46958a23d /tools/perf
parent8bc9481f43103da77d75a532d9eae55790b9eea6 (diff)
downloadlinux-3f50f614d61f91ad30b1947c429d1f235493a7f9.tar.gz
perf record: Fix documentation for a inexistent option '-l'
'perf record' had a '-l' option that meant "scale counter values" a very long time ago, but it currently belongs to 'perf stat' as '-c'. So remove it. I found this problem in the below case. $ perf record -e cycles -l sleep 3 Error: unknown switch `l Signed-off-by: Taeung Song <treeze.taeung@gmail.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1507907412-19813-1-git-send-email-treeze.taeung@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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-rw-r--r--tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt
index e397453e5a46..63526f4416ea 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt
@@ -8,8 +8,8 @@ perf-record - Run a command and record its profile into perf.data
SYNOPSIS
--------
[verse]
-'perf record' [-e <EVENT> | --event=EVENT] [-l] [-a] <command>
-'perf record' [-e <EVENT> | --event=EVENT] [-l] [-a] -- <command> [<options>]
+'perf record' [-e <EVENT> | --event=EVENT] [-a] <command>
+'perf record' [-e <EVENT> | --event=EVENT] [-a] -- <command> [<options>]
DESCRIPTION
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