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From: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
To: Roberto Vitillo <ravitillo@lbl.gov>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl,
	paulus@samba.org, mingo@redhat.com, acme@ghostprotocols.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH] perf: add callgrind conversion tool
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2013 19:00:10 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d2vksqqd.fsf@sejong.aot.lge.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+BNSkX-2NhJmf0b26Bmf-bK_dFnGE_NOR-F9p2MDpZTuScHpg@mail.gmail.com> (Roberto Vitillo's message of "Wed, 27 Feb 2013 00:26:33 +0100")

Hi Roberto,

On Wed, 27 Feb 2013 00:26:33 +0100, Roberto Vitillo wrote:
> The proposed patch adds the convert tool to perf which allows to convert a
> perf.data file to a callgrind data file which can subsequently be displayed
> with kcachegrind. Callgraphs are not supported.
>
> In order to speed up the converter I am not piping to addr2line, this
> means that
> the code depends on libbfd. Considering that perf doesn't strictly depend on
> libbfd my question is if it would be feasible to add that requirement.

You can make it optional, disables 'convert' command when missing.

I didn't read your code in detail yet, will do if I have free time soon.

Thanks,
Namhyung

  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-02-28 10:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-02-26 23:26 [PATCH] perf: add callgrind conversion tool Roberto Vitillo
2013-02-27 12:27 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-02-28 10:00 ` Namhyung Kim [this message]
2013-03-04  3:12 ` Namhyung Kim
2013-03-26 18:52   ` Roberto Vitillo

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