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authorChangbin Du <changbin.du@intel.com>2017-03-13 16:32:52 +0800
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2017-03-13 11:44:44 -0300
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perf report: Document +field style argument support for --field option
Commit 2f3f9bcf000b ("perf tools: Add +field argument support for --field option") by Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> introduced +field style argument support for --field option. This is useful but not updated documentation. This add a little description there. Signed-off-by: Changbin Du <changbin.du@intel.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170313083252.23644-1-changbin.du@intel.com [ Slightly improved the phrase structure ] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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@@ -173,6 +173,9 @@ OPTIONS
By default, every sort keys not specified in -F will be appended
automatically.
+ If the keys starts with a prefix '+', then it will append the specified
+ field(s) to the default field order. For example: perf report -F +period,sample.
+
-p::
--parent=<regex>::
A regex filter to identify parent. The parent is a caller of this