From d35fa1e75fdb308ae8a1a3efffe7ddedbd6051e2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Changbin Du <changbin.du@intel.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2017 16:32:52 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] 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>
---
tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt
index 33f91906f5dc..672b149aa80a 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt
@@ -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
--
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