From: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2025 04:57:36 +0000 (-0800)
Subject: perf test: Improve verbose documentation
X-Git-Tag: v6.14-rc1~120^2~10
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=4e38f2814f02ed2768a4f293088375528121afed;p=thirdparty%2Flinux.git

perf test: Improve verbose documentation

Add a little more detail on the output expectations for each verbose
level.

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250110045736.598281-6-irogers@google.com
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
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diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-test.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-test.txt
index 85f868c324ff3..32da0d1fa86ab 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-test.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-test.txt
@@ -28,8 +28,11 @@ OPTIONS
 	Tests to skip (comma separated numeric list).
 
 -v::
+-vv::
+-vvv::
 --verbose::
-	Be more verbose.
+	With a single '-v', verbose level 1, only failing test output
+	is displayed. With '-vv' and higher all test output is shown.
 
 -S::
 --sequential::