[PATCH 70/73] perf docs: Add description for stderr

From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Date: Fri May 17 2019 - 15:43:40 EST


From: Thomas Richter <tmricht@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

'perf report' displays recorded data on the screen and emits warnings
and debug messages in the status line (last one on screen).

perf also supports the possibility to write all debug messages to stderr
(instead of writing them to the status line).

This is achieved with the following command:

# ./perf --debug stderr=1 report -vvvvv -i ~/fast.data 2>/tmp/2
# ll /tmp/2
-rw-rw-r-- 1 tmricht tmricht 5420835 May 7 13:46 /tmp/2
#

The usage of variable stderr=1 is not documented, so add it to the perf
man page.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Richter <tmricht@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Hendrik Brueckner <brueckner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@xxxxxxxxxx>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190513080220.91966-1-tmricht@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
tools/perf/Documentation/perf.txt | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf.txt
index 864e37597252..401f0ed67439 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf.txt
@@ -22,6 +22,8 @@ OPTIONS
verbose - general debug messages
ordered-events - ordered events object debug messages
data-convert - data convert command debug messages
+ stderr - write debug output (option -v) to stderr
+ in browser mode

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