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authorArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2018-12-14 11:32:02 -0300
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2018-12-18 12:24:01 -0300
commit9d6dc178f0c9e40e61f45d2ac86baa8ad77cb052 (patch)
tree0aca597f2c4f5a6f8673a0cf6df39286fadab7ce /tools/perf/Documentation
parentb036146fd0f99209e87877115d090c69da2ab747 (diff)
perf trace: Allow suppressing the syscall argument names
To show just the values: Default: # trace -e open*,close,*sleep sleep 1 openat(dfd: CWD, filename: /etc/ld.so.cache, flags: CLOEXEC ) = 3 close(fd: 3 ) = 0 openat(dfd: CWD, filename: /lib64/libc.so.6, flags: CLOEXEC ) = 3 close(fd: 3 ) = 0 openat(dfd: CWD, filename: /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive, flags: CLOEXEC) = 3 close(fd: 3 ) = 0 nanosleep(rqtp: 0x7ffc0c4ea0d0, rmtp: 0 ) = 0 close(fd: 1 ) = 0 close(fd: 2 ) = 0 # Remove it: # perf config trace.show_arg_names=no # trace -e open*,close,*sleep sleep 1 openat(CWD, /etc/ld.so.cache, CLOEXEC ) = 3 close(3 ) = 0 openat(CWD, /lib64/libc.so.6, CLOEXEC ) = 3 close(3 ) = 0 openat(CWD, /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive, CLOEXEC ) = 3 close(3 ) = 0 nanosleep(0x7ffced3a8c40, 0 ) = 0 close(1 ) = 0 close(2 ) = 0 # Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Luis Cláudio Gonçalves <lclaudio@redhat.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-ta9tbdwgodpw719sr2bjm8eb@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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-rw-r--r--tools/perf/Documentation/perf-config.txt4
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diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-config.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-config.txt
index ecd1e9514925..35108fd61fa6 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-config.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-config.txt
@@ -532,6 +532,10 @@ trace.*::
trace.no_inherit::
Do not follow children threads.
+ trace.show_arg_names::
+ Should syscall argument names be printed? If not then trace.show_zeros
+ will be set.
+
trace.show_duration::
Show syscall duration.