perf evlist: New command to list the names of events present in a perf.data file

[root@emilia ~]# perf record -a -e sched:* -e timer:timer* sleep 5
[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.172 MB perf.data (~7530 samples) ]
[root@emilia ~]# perf evlist
sched:sched_kthread_stop
sched:sched_kthread_stop_ret
sched:sched_wakeup
sched:sched_wakeup_new
sched:sched_switch
sched:sched_migrate_task
sched:sched_process_free
sched:sched_process_exit
sched:sched_wait_task
sched:sched_process_wait
sched:sched_process_fork
sched:sched_stat_wait
sched:sched_stat_sleep
sched:sched_stat_iowait
sched:sched_stat_runtime
sched:sched_pi_setprio
timer:timer_init
timer:timer_start
timer:timer_expire_entry
timer:timer_expire_exit
timer:timer_cancel
[root@emilia ~]#

Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

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+perf-evlist(1)
+==============
+
+NAME
+----
+perf-evlist - List the event names in a perf.data file
+
+SYNOPSIS
+--------
+[verse]
+'perf evlist <options>'
+
+DESCRIPTION
+-----------
+This command displays the names of events sampled in a perf.data file.
+
+OPTIONS
+-------
+-i::
+--input=::
+        Input file name. (default: perf.data)
+
+SEE ALSO
+--------
+linkperf:perf-record[1], linkperf:perf-list[1],
+linkperf:perf-report[1]