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From: Taeung Song <treeze.taeung@gmail.com>
To: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>,
	Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>,
	Taeung Song <treeze.taeung@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2 2/7] perf config: Document examples getting config info in man page
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2016 17:21:37 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1479111702-5989-3-git-send-email-treeze.taeung@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1479111702-5989-1-git-send-email-treeze.taeung@gmail.com>

Explain how to query particular config items in config file
and how to get several config items from user or system config file
using '--user' or '--system' options.

Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Taeung Song <treeze.taeung@gmail.com>
---
 tools/perf/Documentation/perf-config.txt | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+)

diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-config.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-config.txt
index cb081ac5..1714b0c 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-config.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-config.txt
@@ -8,6 +8,8 @@ perf-config - Get and set variables in a configuration file.
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
 [verse]
+'perf config' [<file-option>] [section.name ...]
+or
 'perf config' [<file-option>] -l | --list
 
 DESCRIPTION
@@ -118,6 +120,22 @@ Given a $HOME/.perfconfig like this:
 		children = true
 		group = true
 
+To query the record mode of call graph, do
+
+	% perf config call-graph.record-mode
+
+If you want to know multiple config key/value pairs, you can do like
+
+	% perf config report.queue-size call-graph.order report.children
+
+To query the config value of sort order of call graph in user config file (i.e. `~/.perfconfig`), do
+
+	% perf config --user call-graph.sort-order
+
+To query the config value of buildid directory in system config file (i.e. `$(sysconf)/perfconfig`), do
+
+	% perf config --system buildid.dir
+
 Variables
 ~~~~~~~~~
 
-- 
2.7.4

  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-11-14  8:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-11-14  8:21 [PATCH v2 0/7] perf config: Add support for config read/write Taeung Song
2016-11-14  8:21 ` [PATCH v2 1/7] perf config: Add support for getting functionality Taeung Song
2016-11-14  8:21 ` Taeung Song [this message]
2016-11-14  8:21 ` [PATCH v2 3/7] perf config: Parse arguments before " Taeung Song
2016-11-14  8:21 ` [PATCH v2 4/7] perf config: Parse arguments before setting functionality Taeung Song
2016-11-14  8:21 ` [PATCH v2 5/7] perf config: Add support for write functionality Taeung Song
2016-11-14  8:21 ` [PATCH v2 6/7] perf config: Document config setting examples in man page Taeung Song
2016-11-14  8:21 ` [PATCH v2 7/7] perf config: Mark where are config items from (user or system) Taeung Song
2016-11-14  8:46 ` [PATCH v2 0/7] perf config: Add support for config read/write Taeung Song

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