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authorArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2014-01-14 17:58:12 -0300
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2014-01-14 17:58:12 -0300
commita6205a35ba2d56dcfb79b08cc11b8c7d549826aa (patch)
treee8f284ebe6f9e3dd11e1712e6513d27cd1cc1b81 /tools/perf
parent509051ea8427b2f73f065a1b0a1ef871727c9cb2 (diff)
perf record: Rename --initial-delay to --delay
To be consistent with the equivalent option in 'stat', also, for the same reason, use -D as the one letter alias. Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-p5yjnopajb3a8x0xha7yl5w8@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/perf')
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt3
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/builtin-record.c2
2 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt
index 3a35a8523e6d..c71b0f36d9e8 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt
@@ -208,7 +208,8 @@ overrides that and uses per-thread mmaps. A side-effect of that is that
inheritance is automatically disabled. --per-thread is ignored with a warning
if combined with -a or -C options.
---initial-delay msecs::
+-D::
+--delay=::
After starting the program, wait msecs before measuring. This is useful to
filter out the startup phase of the program, which is often very different.
diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
index 78e790f4c54f..3c394bf16fa8 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
@@ -882,7 +882,7 @@ const struct option record_options[] = {
OPT_CALLBACK('G', "cgroup", &record.evlist, "name",
"monitor event in cgroup name only",
parse_cgroups),
- OPT_UINTEGER(0, "initial-delay", &record.opts.initial_delay,
+ OPT_UINTEGER('D', "delay", &record.opts.initial_delay,
"ms to wait before starting measurement after program start"),
OPT_STRING('u', "uid", &record.opts.target.uid_str, "user",
"user to profile"),