Commit 5c496f1d authored by James Clark's avatar James Clark Committed by Namhyung Kim
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perf list: Document -v option deduplication feature 



-v disables deduplication of similarly suffixed PMUs so add it to the
help and doc strings.

Reviewed-by: default avatarIan Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJames Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250226104111.564443-4-james.clark@linaro.org


Signed-off-by: default avatarNamhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
parent c9d699e1

tools/perf/Documentation/perf-list.txt

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@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ Don't print descriptions. 


-v::

--long-desc::

Print longer event descriptions.

Print longer event descriptions and all similar PMUs with alphanumeric suffixes.



--debug::

Enable debugging output.

tools/perf/builtin-list.c

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@@ -527,7 +527,7 @@ int cmd_list(int argc, const char **argv) 
		OPT_BOOLEAN('d', "desc", &default_ps.desc,

			    "Print extra event descriptions. --no-desc to not print."),

		OPT_BOOLEAN('v', "long-desc", &default_ps.long_desc,

			    "Print longer event descriptions."),

			    "Print longer event descriptions and all similar PMUs with alphanumeric suffixes."),

		OPT_BOOLEAN(0, "details", &default_ps.detailed,

			    "Print information on the perf event names and expressions used internally by events."),

		OPT_STRING('o', "output", &output_path, "file", "output file name"),