From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934085AbcI2Oh2 (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Sep 2016 10:37:28 -0400 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([198.137.202.9]:34441 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933949AbcI2Ogz (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Sep 2016 10:36:55 -0400 From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo To: Ingo Molnar Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Linux Weekly News , Simon Que , Adrian Hunter , Chong Jiang , Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Subject: [PATCH 05/27] perf tools: Update documentation info about quipper Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2016 11:35:34 -0300 Message-Id: <1475159756-21326-6-git-send-email-acme@kernel.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.7.4 In-Reply-To: <1475159756-21326-1-git-send-email-acme@kernel.org> References: <1475159756-21326-1-git-send-email-acme@kernel.org> X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by bombadil.infradead.org. See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Simon Que The existing link is outdated. The most recent quipper code can be found at the new URL. Committer notes: Quipper is a C++ parser that can be used to convert from a perf.data file to and from a protobuf, a Chromium OS facility. Signed-off-by: Simon Que Acked-by: Andi Kleen Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: Chong Jiang Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-4q1nm7jl3vovp66p5bki20pq@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo --- tools/perf/Documentation/perf.data-file-format.txt | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf.data-file-format.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf.data-file-format.txt index fdc99fe6bbc3..b664b18d3991 100644 --- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf.data-file-format.txt +++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf.data-file-format.txt @@ -437,6 +437,10 @@ in pmu-tools parser. This allows to read perf.data from python and dump it. quipper The quipper C++ parser is available at -https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/platform/chromiumos-wide-profiling/ +https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/platform2 + +It is under the chromiumos-wide-profiling/ subdirectory. This library can +convert a perf data file to a protobuf and vice versa. + Unfortunately this parser tends to be many versions behind and may not be able to parse data files generated by recent perf. -- 2.7.4