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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>
Anton Blanchard 16 years ago
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2 changed files with 4 additions and 2 deletions
  1. 2 1
      tools/perf/builtin-record.c
  2. 2 1
      tools/perf/builtin-stat.c

+ 2 - 1
tools/perf/builtin-record.c

@@ -664,7 +664,8 @@ int cmd_record(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix __used)
 {
 	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);
 

+ 2 - 1
tools/perf/builtin-stat.c

@@ -511,7 +511,8 @@ int cmd_stat(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix __used)
 {
 	int status;
 
-	argc = parse_options(argc, argv, options, stat_usage, 0);
+	argc = parse_options(argc, argv, options, stat_usage,
+		PARSE_OPT_STOP_AT_NON_OPTION);
 	if (!argc)
 		usage_with_options(stat_usage, options);
 	if (run_count <= 0 || run_count > MAX_RUN)