[PATCH 45/64] perf trace: Clarify that -e is about syscalls, not perf events in general

[Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo]

From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>

This comes from the desire of having -e/--expr to have the same meaning
as for 'strace', while other perf tools use it for --event, which
'trace' honours, i.e. all perf tools have --event in common, but trace
uses -e for strace's --expr.

Clarify it in the --help output.

Reported-by: David Ahern <dsahern@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@xxxxxxxxxx>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-5j94bcsdmcbeu2xthnzsj60d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 tools/perf/Documentation/perf-trace.txt | 2 +-
 tools/perf/builtin-trace.c              | 3 +--
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-trace.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-trace.txt
index ba03fd5d1a54..1db9c8b79880 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-trace.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-trace.txt
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ OPTIONS
 
 -e::
 --expr::
-	List of events to show, currently only syscall names.
+	List of syscalls to show, currently only syscall names.
 	Prefixing with ! shows all syscalls but the ones specified.  You may
 	need to escape it.
 
diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-trace.c b/tools/perf/builtin-trace.c
index 23fb0818fec9..d1139b6bd534 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-trace.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-trace.c
@@ -2660,8 +2660,7 @@ int cmd_trace(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix __maybe_unused)
 	OPT_BOOLEAN(0, "comm", &trace.show_comm,
 		    "show the thread COMM next to its id"),
 	OPT_BOOLEAN(0, "tool_stats", &trace.show_tool_stats, "show tool stats"),
-	OPT_STRING('e', "expr", &ev_qualifier_str, "expr",
-		    "list of events to trace"),
+	OPT_STRING('e', "expr", &ev_qualifier_str, "expr", "list of syscalls to trace"),
 	OPT_STRING('o', "output", &output_name, "file", "output file name"),
 	OPT_STRING('i', "input", &input_name, "file", "Analyze events in file"),
 	OPT_STRING('p', "pid", &trace.opts.target.pid, "pid",
-- 
1.9.3

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