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| author | Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> | 2010-01-27 02:28:03 -0600 |
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| committer | Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> | 2010-02-25 04:07:49 +0100 |
| commit | cff68e582237cae3cf456f01153202175961dfbe (patch) | |
| tree | 841274e8eea5a50d2f3f868e22aaf3f09ded7a13 /tools/perf/Documentation/perf-trace.txt | |
| parent | 44ad9cd8f0893b9ae0ac729a7dc2a1ebcd170ac6 (diff) | |
perf/scripts: Add perf-trace-python Documentation
Also small update to perf-trace-perl and perf-trace docs.
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Keiichi KII <k-keiichi@bx.jp.nec.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <1264580883-15324-13-git-send-email-tzanussi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
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| -rw-r--r-- | tools/perf/Documentation/perf-trace.txt | 11 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-trace.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-trace.txt index c00a76fcb8d6..8879299cd9df 100644 --- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-trace.txt +++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-trace.txt @@ -19,6 +19,11 @@ There are several variants of perf trace: 'perf trace' to see a detailed trace of the workload that was recorded. + You can also run a set of pre-canned scripts that aggregate and + summarize the raw trace data in various ways (the list of scripts is + available via 'perf trace -l'). The following variants allow you to + record and run those scripts: + 'perf trace record <script>' to record the events required for 'perf trace report'. <script> is the name displayed in the output of 'perf trace --list' i.e. the actual script name minus any language @@ -31,6 +36,9 @@ There are several variants of perf trace: record <script>' is used and should be present for this command to succeed. + See the 'SEE ALSO' section for links to language-specific + information on how to write and run your own trace scripts. + OPTIONS ------- -D:: @@ -58,4 +66,5 @@ OPTIONS SEE ALSO -------- -linkperf:perf-record[1], linkperf:perf-trace-perl[1] +linkperf:perf-record[1], linkperf:perf-trace-perl[1], +linkperf:perf-trace-python[1] |