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authorAndi Kleen2020-01-03 10:36:43 -0800
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo2020-01-14 12:02:19 -0300
commitaa9d1f8334dfe220aff58c6bb4daf1fdae81add6 (patch)
tree438b0911d6b4a90710b83bf2b415226d70fdc613 /tools/perf
parentd8007772a5541b4711d1286b788ad4295b2c7eaa (diff)
perf report: Clarify in help that --children is default
Refer to --no-children, which is what most people probably want. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> LPU-Reference: 20200103183643.149150-1-andi@firstfloor.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/perf')
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/builtin-report.c3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-report.c b/tools/perf/builtin-report.c
index de988589d99b..3048c1b95b4c 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-report.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-report.c
@@ -1164,7 +1164,8 @@ int cmd_report(int argc, const char **argv)
report_callchain_help, &report_parse_callchain_opt,
callchain_default_opt),
OPT_BOOLEAN(0, "children", &symbol_conf.cumulate_callchain,
- "Accumulate callchains of children and show total overhead as well"),
+ "Accumulate callchains of children and show total overhead as well. "
+ "Enabled by default, use --no-children to disable."),
OPT_INTEGER(0, "max-stack", &report.max_stack,
"Set the maximum stack depth when parsing the callchain, "
"anything beyond the specified depth will be ignored. "