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authorNamhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>2016-01-07 20:41:53 +0900
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2016-01-08 13:15:46 -0300
commit14cbfbeb76540cc0c53fbb0ba34b3a4900ebe40f (patch)
tree51bc19a46a576c64d784b6c0713eee59c8f73de3 /tools/perf/config
parentperf hists: Export a couple of hist functions (diff)
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perf report: Show random usage tip on the help line
Currently perf report only shows a help message "For a higher level overview, try: perf report --sort comm,dso" unconditionally (even if the sort keys were used). Add more help tips and show randomly. Load tips from ${prefix}/share/doc/perf-tip/tips.txt file. $ perf report | tail 0.10% swapper [kernel.vmlinux] [k] irq_exit 0.09% swapper [kernel.vmlinux] [k] flush_smp_call_function_queue 0.08% swapper [kernel.vmlinux] [k] native_write_msr_safe 0.03% swapper [kernel.vmlinux] [k] group_sched_in 0.01% perf [kernel.vmlinux] [k] native_write_msr_safe # # (Tip: Search options using a keyword: perf report -h <keyword>) # Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1452166913-27046-1-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org [ Renamed it to perf_tip() and the parameter dirname to dirpath to fix the build on older distros ] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/perf/config')
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/config/Makefile6
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/config/Makefile b/tools/perf/config/Makefile
index 18b2f96d0941..254d06e39bea 100644
--- a/tools/perf/config/Makefile
+++ b/tools/perf/config/Makefile
@@ -691,6 +691,7 @@ sharedir = $(prefix)/share
template_dir = share/perf-core/templates
STRACE_GROUPS_DIR = share/perf-core/strace/groups
htmldir = share/doc/perf-doc
+tipdir = share/doc/perf-tip
ifeq ($(prefix),/usr)
sysconfdir = /etc
ETC_PERFCONFIG = $(sysconfdir)/perfconfig
@@ -717,6 +718,7 @@ infodir_SQ = $(subst ','\'',$(infodir))
perfexecdir_SQ = $(subst ','\'',$(perfexecdir))
template_dir_SQ = $(subst ','\'',$(template_dir))
htmldir_SQ = $(subst ','\'',$(htmldir))
+tipdir_SQ = $(subst ','\'',$(tipdir))
prefix_SQ = $(subst ','\'',$(prefix))
sysconfdir_SQ = $(subst ','\'',$(sysconfdir))
libdir_SQ = $(subst ','\'',$(libdir))
@@ -724,12 +726,15 @@ libdir_SQ = $(subst ','\'',$(libdir))
ifneq ($(filter /%,$(firstword $(perfexecdir))),)
perfexec_instdir = $(perfexecdir)
STRACE_GROUPS_INSTDIR = $(STRACE_GROUPS_DIR)
+tip_instdir = $(tipdir)
else
perfexec_instdir = $(prefix)/$(perfexecdir)
STRACE_GROUPS_INSTDIR = $(prefix)/$(STRACE_GROUPS_DIR)
+tip_instdir = $(prefix)/$(tipdir)
endif
perfexec_instdir_SQ = $(subst ','\'',$(perfexec_instdir))
STRACE_GROUPS_INSTDIR_SQ = $(subst ','\'',$(STRACE_GROUPS_INSTDIR))
+tip_instdir_SQ = $(subst ','\'',$(tip_instdir))
# If we install to $(HOME) we keep the traceevent default:
# $(HOME)/.traceevent/plugins
@@ -770,6 +775,7 @@ $(call detected_var,ETC_PERFCONFIG_SQ)
$(call detected_var,STRACE_GROUPS_DIR_SQ)
$(call detected_var,prefix_SQ)
$(call detected_var,perfexecdir_SQ)
+$(call detected_var,tipdir_SQ)
$(call detected_var,LIBDIR)
$(call detected_var,GTK_CFLAGS)
$(call detected_var,PERL_EMBED_CCOPTS)