From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
To: mingo@elte.hu
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, fweisbec@gmail.com,
peterz@infradead.org, Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Subject: [PATCH] perf: Add timechart help text and add timechart to "perf help"
Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2009 13:36:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090919133604.3767fa35@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090919133410.7b23e270@infradead.org>
>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
--
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--
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-19 11:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-19 11:34 [git pull] incremental updates to timechart Arjan van de Ven
2009-09-19 11:34 ` [PATCH] perf: Add "perf timechart record" Arjan van de Ven
2009-09-19 17:00 ` [tip:perfcounters/core] perf timechart: " tip-bot for Arjan van de Ven
2009-09-19 11:35 ` [PATCH] perf: Be consistent about minimum text size in the svghelper Arjan van de Ven
2009-09-19 17:01 ` [tip:perfcounters/core] perf utils: " tip-bot for Arjan van de Ven
2009-09-19 11:35 ` [PATCH] trace: Move the end point of a C state in the power tracer Arjan van de Ven
2009-09-19 17:01 ` [tip:perfcounters/core] tracing, x86, cpuidle: " tip-bot for Arjan van de Ven
2009-09-19 11:36 ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2009-09-19 17:01 ` [tip:perfcounters/core] perf: Add timechart help text and add timechart to "perf help" tip-bot for Arjan van de Ven
2009-09-19 11:36 ` [PATCH] perf: Use a define for the maximum length of a trace event Arjan van de Ven
2009-09-19 17:01 ` [tip:perfcounters/core] perf utils: " tip-bot for Arjan van de Ven
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