Explain how to add or modify particular config items in config file and how to set several config items from user or system config file using '--user' or '--system' options.
Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]> Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]> Cc: Wang Nan <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Taeung Song <[email protected]> --- tools/perf/Documentation/perf-config.txt | 19 ++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-config.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-config.txt index 1714b0c..4b69c34 100644 --- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-config.txt +++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-config.txt @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ perf-config - Get and set variables in a configuration file. SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] -'perf config' [<file-option>] [section.name ...] +'perf config' [<file-option>] [section.name[=value] ...] or 'perf config' [<file-option>] -l | --list @@ -120,6 +120,23 @@ Given a $HOME/.perfconfig like this: children = true group = true +You can hide source code of annotate feature setting the config to false with + + % perf config annotate.hide_src_code=true + +If you want to add or modify several config items, you can do like + + % perf config ui.show-headers=false kmem.default=slab + +To modify the sort order of report functionality in user config file(i.e. `~/.perfconfig`), do + + % perf config --user report.sort-order=srcline + +To change colors of selected line to other foreground and background colors +in system config file (i.e. `$(sysconf)/perfconfig`), do + + % perf config --system colors.selected=yellow,green + To query the record mode of call graph, do % perf config call-graph.record-mode -- 2.7.4
