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authorSimon Que <sque@chromium.org>2016-09-28 14:37:53 -0400
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2016-09-29 10:16:44 -0400
commit2acad19500c28ce0c4dc3f9bf1dcfc82040b6531 (patch)
tree598141e0fc59cd6975b5e03faf97586ec5ace94f /tools
parentf0bbd602268e69f4f428075c645391d64bdd6c9f (diff)
perf tools: Update documentation info about quipper
The existing link is outdated.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 <sque@chromium.org> Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Chong Jiang <chongjiang@chromium.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-4q1nm7jl3vovp66p5bki20pq@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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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.
437quipper 437quipper
438 438
439The quipper C++ parser is available at 439The quipper C++ parser is available at
440https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/platform/chromiumos-wide-profiling/ 440https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/platform2
441
442It is under the chromiumos-wide-profiling/ subdirectory. This library can
443convert a perf data file to a protobuf and vice versa.
444
441Unfortunately this parser tends to be many versions behind and may not be able 445Unfortunately this parser tends to be many versions behind and may not be able
442to parse data files generated by recent perf. 446to parse data files generated by recent perf.