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Diffstat (limited to 'tools/perf/builtin-record.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | tools/perf/builtin-record.c | 7 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c index d4cf1b0c88f9..b1304ebc8779 100644 --- a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c +++ b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c @@ -1274,6 +1274,8 @@ static struct record record = { const char record_callchain_help[] = CALLCHAIN_RECORD_HELP "\n\t\t\t\tDefault: fp"; +static bool dry_run; + /* * XXX Will stay a global variable till we fix builtin-script.c to stop messing * with it and switch to use the library functions in perf_evlist that came @@ -1393,6 +1395,8 @@ struct option __record_options[] = { "append timestamp to output filename"), OPT_BOOLEAN(0, "switch-output", &record.switch_output, "Switch output when receive SIGUSR2"), + OPT_BOOLEAN(0, "dry-run", &dry_run, + "Parse options then exit"), OPT_END() }; @@ -1462,6 +1466,9 @@ int cmd_record(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix __maybe_unused) if (err) return err; + if (dry_run) + return 0; + err = bpf__setup_stdout(rec->evlist); if (err) { bpf__strerror_setup_stdout(rec->evlist, err, errbuf, sizeof(errbuf)); |