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authorArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2011-10-05 19:16:15 -0300
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2011-10-07 16:56:44 -0300
commitab81f3fd350c510730adb1ca40ef55c2b2952121 (patch)
tree7b442d9592dd5666eb2cae6194962e545bd693a7 /tools/perf/Documentation
parent81cce8de9437be9234f651be1f03e596c1b1a79a (diff)
perf top: Reuse the 'report' hist_entry/hists classes
This actually fixes several problems we had in the old 'perf top': 1. Unresolved symbols not show, limitation that came from the old "KernelTop" codebase, to solve it we would need to do changes that would make sym_entry have most of the hist_entry fields. 2. It was using the number of samples, not the sum of sample->period. And brings the --sort code that allows us to have all the views in 'perf report', for instance: [root@emilia ~]# perf top --sort dso PerfTop: 5903 irqs/sec kernel:77.5% exact: 0.0% [1000Hz cycles], (all, 8 CPUs) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 31.59% libcrypto.so.1.0.0 21.55% [kernel] 18.57% libpython2.6.so.1.0 7.04% libc-2.12.so 6.99% _backend_agg.so 4.72% sshd 1.48% multiarray.so 1.39% libfreetype.so.6.3.22 1.37% perf 0.71% libgobject-2.0.so.0.2200.5 0.53% [tg3] 0.48% libglib-2.0.so.0.2200.5 0.44% libstdc++.so.6.0.13 0.40% libcairo.so.2.10800.8 0.38% libm-2.12.so 0.34% umath.so 0.30% libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0.1800.9 0.22% libpthread-2.12.so 0.20% libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0.1800.9 0.20% librt-2.12.so 0.15% _path.so 0.13% libpango-1.0.so.0.2800.1 0.11% libatlas.so.3.0 0.09% ft2font.so 0.09% libpangoft2-1.0.so.0.2800.1 0.08% libX11.so.6.3.0 0.07% [vdso] 0.06% cyclictest ^C All the filter lists can be used as well: --dsos, --comms, --symbols, etc. The 'perf report' TUI is also reused, being possible to apply all the zoom operations, do annotation, etc. This change will allow multiple simplifications in the symbol system as well, that will be detailed in upcoming changesets. Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-xzaaldxq7zhqrrxdxjifk1mh@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-top.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-top.txt
index f6eb1cdafb77..d146ba33d691 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-top.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-top.txt
@@ -106,6 +106,26 @@ Default is to monitor all CPUS.
--zero::
Zero history across display updates.
+-s::
+--sort::
+ Sort by key(s): pid, comm, dso, symbol, parent
+
+-n::
+--show-nr-samples::
+ Show a column with the number of samples.
+
+--show-total-period::
+ Show a column with the sum of periods.
+
+--dsos::
+ Only consider symbols in these dsos.
+
+--comms::
+ Only consider symbols in these comms.
+
+--symbols::
+ Only consider these symbols.
+
INTERACTIVE PROMPTING KEYS
--------------------------
@@ -130,9 +150,6 @@ INTERACTIVE PROMPTING KEYS
[S]::
Stop annotation, return to full profile display.
-[w]::
- Toggle between weighted sum and individual count[E]r profile.
-
[z]::
Toggle event count zeroing across display updates.