[PATCH] perf doc trace: Remove --map-dump documentation

From: Howard Chu
Date: Sun Jun 01 2025 - 13:27:25 EST


The --map-dump option was removed in (5e6da6be3082: "perf trace: Migrate
BPF augmentation to use a skeleton"), this patch removes its remaining
documentation.

Fixes: (5e6da6be3082: "perf trace: Migrate BPF augmentation to use a skeleton")

Signed-off-by: Howard Chu <howardchu95@xxxxxxxxx>
---
tools/perf/Documentation/perf-trace.txt | 8 --------
1 file changed, 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-trace.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-trace.txt
index c1fb6056a0d3..973fede403a0 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-trace.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-trace.txt
@@ -238,14 +238,6 @@ the thread executes on the designated CPUs. Default is to monitor all CPUs.
the same beautifiers used in the strace-like enter+exit lines to augment the
tracepoint arguments.

---map-dump::
- Dump BPF maps setup by events passed via -e, for instance the augmented_raw_syscalls
- living in tools/perf/examples/bpf/augmented_raw_syscalls.c. For now this
- dumps just boolean map values and integer keys, in time this will print in hex
- by default and use BTF when available, as well as use functions to do pretty
- printing using the existing 'perf trace' syscall arg beautifiers to map integer
- arguments to strings (pid to comm, syscall id to syscall name, etc).
-
--force-btf::
Use btf_dump to pretty print syscall argument data, instead of using hand-crafted pretty
printers. This option is intended for testing BTF integration in perf trace. btf_dump-based
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2.45.2