Messages in this thread Patch in this message | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Sat, 19 Sep 2009 13:36:04 +0200 | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Subject | [PATCH] perf: Add timechart help text and add timechart to "perf help" |
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From 880307a7ee6136aca34ca0fc71bab544723829c9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2009 13:17:57 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] 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> --- tools/perf/Documentation/perf-timechart.txt | 35 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ tools/perf/command-list.txt | 1 + 2 files changed, 36 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) create mode 100644 tools/perf/Documentation/perf-timechart.txt
diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-timechart.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-timechart.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..61e0104 --- /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 3133c74..00326e2 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 -- 1.6.0.6
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