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| author | Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> | 2009-09-19 13:36:04 +0200 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2009-09-19 18:57:53 +0200 |
| commit | 151750cec5db3c7ea45255d2901e581e2162317a (patch) | |
| tree | ffd67e15d30599094c4e389380c90d4085d58c38 | |
| parent | 288f023e708efd89d77ce9acf977a33a623ae83d (diff) | |
perf: Add timechart help text and add timechart to "perf help"
As suggested by Ingo, add a timechart man page help text, as well
as add it to the "perf help" overview.
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <20090919133604.3767fa35@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| -rw-r--r-- | tools/perf/Documentation/perf-timechart.txt | 35 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | tools/perf/command-list.txt | 1 |
2 files changed, 36 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-timechart.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-timechart.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..61e0104c6270 --- /dev/null +++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-timechart.txt @@ -0,0 +1,35 @@ +perf-timechart(1) +================= + +NAME +---- +perf-timechart - Tool to visualize total system behavior during a workload + +SYNOPSIS +-------- +[verse] +'perf timechart' {record} + +DESCRIPTION +----------- +There are two variants of perf timechart: + + 'perf timechart record <command>' to record the system level events + of an arbitrary workload. + + 'perf timechart' to turn a trace into a Scalable Vector Graphics file, + that can be viewed with popular SVG viewers such as 'Inkscape'. + +OPTIONS +------- +-o:: +--output=:: + Select the output file (default: output.svg) +-i:: +--input=:: + Select the input file (default: perf.data) + + +SEE ALSO +-------- +linkperf:perf-record[1] diff --git a/tools/perf/command-list.txt b/tools/perf/command-list.txt index 3133c74729dd..00326e230d87 100644 --- a/tools/perf/command-list.txt +++ b/tools/perf/command-list.txt @@ -8,5 +8,6 @@ perf-sched mainporcelain common perf-record mainporcelain common perf-report mainporcelain common perf-stat mainporcelain common +perf-timechart mainporcelain common perf-top mainporcelain common perf-trace mainporcelain common |