From 175b968b81ba3bef0b39618714eb23d6675a935c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2016 11:14:38 -0300 Subject: perf report: Introduce --stdio-color to setup the color output mode selection 'perf report --stdio' will colorize entries with most hits and possibly some other aspects of its output, but those colors gets suppressed if we redirect the output to a non-tty, allow keeping the colors by adding a new option, --stdio-color, now this use case will also output escape sequences for colors: $ perf annotate --stdio-color | more Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: David Ahern Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Wang Nan Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-3iuawqjldu4i8gziot7e3d5n@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo --- tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) (limited to 'tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt') diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt index 9cbddc290aff..2d1746295abf 100644 --- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt +++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt @@ -265,6 +265,13 @@ OPTIONS --stdio:: Use the stdio interface. +--stdio-color:: + 'always', 'never' or 'auto', allowing configuring color output + via the command line, in addition to via "color.ui" .perfconfig. + Use '--stdio-color always' to generate color even when redirecting + to a pipe or file. Using just '--stdio-color' is equivalent to + using 'always'. + --tui:: Use the TUI interface, that is integrated with annotate and allows zooming into DSOs or threads, among other features. Use of --tui requires a tty, if one is not present, as when piping to other -- cgit