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authorAudra Mitchell <audra@redhat.com>2023-10-13 15:03:49 -0400
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>2023-10-18 14:34:19 -0700
commitd8ea435f071592d82479414e97e3c70bed204666 (patch)
tree6dd61e7e3ea4f0179c2ee6b3fae85b4d37da9ae3 /tools/mm
parentc6d5e4901e00031650132aa30aa082a47c3796e5 (diff)
tools/mm: update the usage output to be more organized
Organize the usage options alphabetically and improve the description of some options. Also separate the more complicated cull options from the single use compare options. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231013190350.579407-6-audra@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Audra Mitchell <audra@redhat.com> Acked-by: Rafael Aquini <aquini@redhat.com> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Georgi Djakov <djakov@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/mm')
-rw-r--r--tools/mm/page_owner_sort.c33
1 files changed, 20 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/tools/mm/page_owner_sort.c b/tools/mm/page_owner_sort.c
index 5a260096ebaa..e1f264444342 100644
--- a/tools/mm/page_owner_sort.c
+++ b/tools/mm/page_owner_sort.c
@@ -634,19 +634,26 @@ static void print_allocator(FILE *out, int allocator)
static void usage(void)
{
printf("Usage: ./page_owner_sort [OPTIONS] <input> <output>\n"
- "-m\t\tSort by total memory.\n"
- "-s\t\tSort by the stack trace.\n"
- "-t\t\tSort by times (default).\n"
- "-p\t\tSort by pid.\n"
- "-P\t\tSort by tgid.\n"
- "-n\t\tSort by task command name.\n"
- "-a\t\tSort by memory allocate time.\n"
- "-d\t\tPrint debug information.\n"
- "--pid <pidlist>\tSelect by pid. This selects the information of blocks whose process ID numbers appear in <pidlist>.\n"
- "--tgid <tgidlist>\tSelect by tgid. This selects the information of blocks whose Thread Group ID numbers appear in <tgidlist>.\n"
- "--name <cmdlist>\n\t\tSelect by command name. This selects the information of blocks whose command name appears in <cmdlist>.\n"
- "--cull <rules>\tCull by user-defined rules.<rules> is a single argument in the form of a comma-separated list with some common fields predefined\n"
- "--sort <order>\tSpecify sort order as: [+|-]key[,[+|-]key[,...]]\n"
+ "-a\t\t\tSort by memory allocation time.\n"
+ "-m\t\t\tSort by total memory.\n"
+ "-n\t\t\tSort by task command name.\n"
+ "-p\t\t\tSort by pid.\n"
+ "-P\t\t\tSort by tgid.\n"
+ "-s\t\t\tSort by the stacktrace.\n"
+ "-t\t\t\tSort by number of times record is seen (default).\n\n"
+ "--pid <pidlist>\t\tSelect by pid. This selects the information"
+ " of\n\t\t\tblocks whose process ID numbers appear in <pidlist>.\n"
+ "--tgid <tgidlist>\tSelect by tgid. This selects the information"
+ " of\n\t\t\tblocks whose Thread Group ID numbers appear in "
+ "<tgidlist>.\n"
+ "--name <cmdlist>\tSelect by command name. This selects the"
+ " information\n\t\t\tof blocks whose command name appears in"
+ " <cmdlist>.\n"
+ "--cull <rules>\t\tCull by user-defined rules. <rules> is a "
+ "single\n\t\t\targument in the form of a comma-separated list "
+ "with some\n\t\t\tcommon fields predefined (pid, tgid, comm, "
+ "stacktrace, allocator)\n"
+ "--sort <order>\t\tSpecify sort order as: [+|-]key[,[+|-]key[,...]]\n"
);
}