perf diff: Add -q/--quiet option
The -q/--quiet option is to suppress any message. Sometimes users just
want to see the numbers and it can be used for that case.
Committer notes:
Before:
# perf diff | head -10
Failed to open /tmp/perf-6678.map, continuing without symbols
Failed to open /tmp/perf-6678.map, continuing without symbols
Failed to open /tmp/perf-2646.map, continuing without symbols
# Event 'cycles'
#
# Baseline Delta Abs Shared Object Symbol
# ........ ......... .......................... ............................................
#
5.36% -1.76% [kernel.vmlinux] [k] intel_idle
2.80% +1.48% firefox [.] 0x00000000000101fe
57.12% -1.25% libxul.so [.] 0x00000000009bea92
1.36% -1.11% [kernel.vmlinux] [k] __schedule
4.26% -1.00% perf-6678.map [.] 0x00007fac4b0e9320
After:
# perf diff -q | head -10
5.36% -1.76% [kernel.vmlinux] [k] intel_idle
2.80% +1.48% firefox [.] 0x00000000000101fe
57.12% -1.25% libxul.so [.] 0x00000000009bea92
1.36% -1.11% [kernel.vmlinux] [k] __schedule
4.26% -1.00% perf-6678.map [.] 0x00007fac4b0e9320
1.86% +0.95% [kernel.vmlinux] [k] update_blocked_averages
0.80% -0.70% [kernel.vmlinux] [k] native_sched_clock
0.74% -0.58% [kernel.vmlinux] [k] native_write_msr
0.76% -0.56% qemu-system-x86_64 [.] 0x00000000002395c0
+0.54% libpulsecommon-10.0.so [.] 0x000000000002d91b
#
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Suggested-and-Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: kernel-team@lge.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170217081742.17417-5-namhyung@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-diff.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-diff.txt
index 66dbe3de..a79c84a 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-diff.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-diff.txt
@@ -73,6 +73,10 @@
Be verbose, for instance, show the raw counts in addition to the
diff.
+-q::
+--quiet::
+ Do not show any message. (Suppress -v)
+
-f::
--force::
Don't do ownership validation.