From 99f638173e186dea7c7f106f566bbca59e923c24 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Zejiang Tang <tangzejiang@loongson.cn>
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2020 17:53:14 +0800
Subject: perf docs: Improve help information in perf.txt

perf has many undocumented options, such as:-vv, --exec-path,
--html-path, -p, --paginate,--no-pager, --debugfs-dir, --buildid-dir,
--list-cmds, --list-opts.

Add entris for these options in perf.txt.

Signed-off-by: Zejiang Tang <tangzejiang@loongson.cn>
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@linux.ibm.com>
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1599645194-8438-1-git-send-email-tangzejiang@loongson.cn
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
---
 tools/perf/Documentation/perf.txt | 69 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------
 1 file changed, 47 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)

(limited to 'tools/perf')

diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf.txt
index 3f37ded13f8c..c130a3c46a90 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf.txt
@@ -12,32 +12,57 @@ SYNOPSIS
 
 OPTIONS
 -------
---debug::
-	Setup debug variable (see list below) in value
-	range (0, 10). Use like:
-	  --debug verbose   # sets verbose = 1
-	  --debug verbose=2 # sets verbose = 2
-
-	List of debug variables allowed to set:
-	  verbose          - general debug messages
-	  ordered-events   - ordered events object debug messages
-	  data-convert     - data convert command debug messages
-	  stderr           - write debug output (option -v) to stderr
-	                     in browser mode
-	  perf-event-open  - Print perf_event_open() arguments and
-			     return value
-
---buildid-dir::
-	Setup buildid cache directory. It has higher priority than
-	buildid.dir config file option.
+-h::
+--help::
+        Run perf help command.
 
 -v::
 --version::
-  Display perf version.
+        Display perf version.
 
--h::
---help::
-  Run perf help command.
+-vv::
+        Print the compiled-in status of libraries.
+
+--exec-path::
+        Display or set exec path.
+
+--html-path::
+        Display html documentation path.
+
+-p::
+--paginate::
+        Set up pager.
+
+--no-pager::
+        Do not set pager.
+
+--buildid-dir::
+        Setup buildid cache directory. It has higher priority
+        than buildid.dir config file option.
+
+--list-cmds::
+        List the most commonly used perf commands.
+
+--list-opts::
+        List available perf options.
+
+--debugfs-dir::
+        Set debugfs directory or set environment variable PERF_DEBUGFS_DIR.
+
+--debug::
+        Setup debug variable (see list below) in value
+        range (0, 10). Use like:
+          --debug verbose   # sets verbose = 1
+          --debug verbose=2 # sets verbose = 2
+
+        List of debug variables allowed to set:
+          verbose          - general debug messages
+          ordered-events   - ordered events object debug messages
+          data-convert     - data convert command debug messages
+          stderr           - write debug output (option -v) to stderr
+                             in browser mode
+          perf-event-open  - Print perf_event_open() arguments and
+                             return value
 
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
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