perf tools: Add --tui and --stdio to choose the UI

Relying just on ~/.perfconfig or rebuilding the tool disabling support
for the TUI is too cumbersome, so allow specifying which UI to use and
make the command line switch override whatever is in ~/.perfconfig.

Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt
index abfabe9..12052c9 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt
@@ -65,6 +65,13 @@ OPTIONS
 		 the tree is considered as a new profiled object. +
 	Default: fractal,0.5.
 
+--stdio:: Use the stdio interface.
+
+--tui:: Use the TUI interface, that is integrated with annotate and allows
+        zooming into DSOs or threads, among other features. Use of --tui
+	requires a tty, if one is not present, as when piping to other
+	commands, the stdio interface is used.
+
 SEE ALSO
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 linkperf:perf-stat[1]