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diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-config.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-config.txt index cb081ac59fd1..5b4fff3adc4b 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[=value] ...] +or 'perf config' [<file-option>] -l | --list DESCRIPTION @@ -118,6 +120,39 @@ Given a $HOME/.perfconfig like this: children = true group = true +You can hide source code of annotate feature setting the config to false with + + % perf config annotate.hide_src_code=true + +If you want to add or modify several config items, you can do like + + % perf config ui.show-headers=false kmem.default=slab + +To modify the sort order of report functionality in user config file(i.e. `~/.perfconfig`), do + + % perf config --user report sort-order=srcline + +To change colors of selected line to other foreground and background colors +in system config file (i.e. `$(sysconf)/perfconfig`), do + + % perf config --system colors.selected=yellow,green + +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 ~~~~~~~~~ @@ -463,6 +498,18 @@ record.*:: But if this option is 'no-cache', it will not update the build-id cache. 'skip' skips post-processing and does not update the cache. +diff.*:: + diff.order:: + This option sets the number of columns to sort the result. + The default is 0, which means sorting by baseline. + Setting it to 1 will sort the result by delta (or other + compute method selected). + + diff.compute:: + This options sets the method for computing the diff result. + Possible values are 'delta', 'delta-abs', 'ratio' and + 'wdiff'. Default is 'delta'. + SEE ALSO -------- linkperf:perf[1] |