perf_counter: Improve perf stat and perf record option parsing
perf stat and perf record currently look for all options on the command
line. This can lead to some confusion:
# perf stat ls -l
Error: unknown switch `l'
While we can work around this by adding '--' before the command, the git
option parsing code can stop at the first non option:
# perf stat ls -l
Performance counter stats for 'ls -l':
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Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <20090722130412.GD9029@kryten>
diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
index 68a9be0..6da0992 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
@@ -664,7 +664,8 @@
{
int counter;
- argc = parse_options(argc, argv, options, record_usage, 0);
+ argc = parse_options(argc, argv, options, record_usage,
+ PARSE_OPT_STOP_AT_NON_OPTION);
if (!argc && target_pid == -1 && !system_wide)
usage_with_options(record_usage, options);
