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authorYannick Brosseau <scientist@fb.com>2016-12-02 11:07:32 -0500
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2016-12-07 12:00:35 -0300
commit108a7c103b761309ccbd997002e8428808cf1e04 (patch)
tree347ecc9037c323e9578207f2cde67191381fe3f6
parentb336352b417edd8c058c9e09d136728b6e2ff56d (diff)
perf tools: Explicitly document that --children is enabled by defaultperf-core-for-mingo-20161207
The fact that the --children option is enabled by default is buried deep at the end of the help page, in the overhead calculation section. This make it explicit right where the option is listed, following the same way other default options are described Signed-off-by: Yannick Brosseau <scientist@fb.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: kernel-team@fb.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161202160732.29058-1-scientist@fb.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt3
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/Documentation/perf-top.txt1
2 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt
index 3a166ae4a4d3..f2914f03ae7b 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt
@@ -239,7 +239,8 @@ OPTIONS
Accumulate callchain of children to parent entry so that then can
show up in the output. The output will have a new "Children" column
and will be sorted on the data. It requires callchains are recorded.
- See the `overhead calculation' section for more details.
+ See the `overhead calculation' section for more details. Enabled by
+ default, disable with --no-children.
--max-stack::
Set the stack depth limit when parsing the callchain, anything
diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-top.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-top.txt
index 91d638df3a6b..e71d63843f45 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-top.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-top.txt
@@ -170,6 +170,7 @@ Default is to monitor all CPUS.
show up in the output. The output will have a new "Children" column
and will be sorted on the data. It requires -g/--call-graph option
enabled. See the `overhead calculation' section for more details.
+ Enabled by default, disable with --no-children.
--max-stack::
Set the stack depth limit when parsing the callchain, anything