This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled perf record: Correct the help info of option "--no-bpf-event" to the 5.8-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: perf-record-correct-the-help-info-of-option-no-bpf-event.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.8 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From a060c1f12b525ba828f871eff3127dabf8daa1e6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Wei Li <liwei391@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2020 11:19:47 +0800 Subject: perf record: Correct the help info of option "--no-bpf-event" From: Wei Li <liwei391@xxxxxxxxxx> commit a060c1f12b525ba828f871eff3127dabf8daa1e6 upstream. The help info of option "--no-bpf-event" is wrongly described as "record bpf events", correct it. Committer testing: $ perf record -h bpf Usage: perf record [<options>] [<command>] or: perf record [<options>] -- <command> [<options>] --clang-opt <clang options> options passed to clang when compiling BPF scriptlets --clang-path <clang path> clang binary to use for compiling BPF scriptlets --no-bpf-event do not record bpf events $ Fixes: 71184c6ab7e6 ("perf record: Replace option --bpf-event with --no-bpf-event") Signed-off-by: Wei Li <liwei391@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@xxxxxx> Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Hanjun Guo <guohanjun@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Li Bin <huawei.libin@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx> Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200819031947.12115-1-liwei391@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- tools/perf/builtin-record.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c +++ b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c @@ -2417,7 +2417,7 @@ static struct option __record_options[] OPT_BOOLEAN(0, "tail-synthesize", &record.opts.tail_synthesize, "synthesize non-sample events at the end of output"), OPT_BOOLEAN(0, "overwrite", &record.opts.overwrite, "use overwrite mode"), - OPT_BOOLEAN(0, "no-bpf-event", &record.opts.no_bpf_event, "record bpf events"), + OPT_BOOLEAN(0, "no-bpf-event", &record.opts.no_bpf_event, "do not record bpf events"), OPT_BOOLEAN(0, "strict-freq", &record.opts.strict_freq, "Fail if the specified frequency can't be used"), OPT_CALLBACK('F', "freq", &record.opts, "freq or 'max'", Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from liwei391@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-5.8/perf-record-correct-the-help-info-of-option-no-bpf-event.patch