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authorArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2010-08-21 09:38:16 -0400
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2010-08-21 09:49:46 -0400
commit8b9e74eb8af808807192d16b76565c27154ae7ed (patch)
tree699863e988c6b373402f473298529715cce35fdf /tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt
parented8052616680e72f58bca678d4d1678cb12a7e47 (diff)
perf tools: Add --tui and --stdio to choose the UI
Relying just on ~/.perfconfig or rebuilding the tool disabling support for the TUI is too cumbersome, so allow specifying which UI to use and make the command line switch override whatever is in ~/.perfconfig. Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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@@ -65,6 +65,13 @@ OPTIONS
65 the tree is considered as a new profiled object. + 65 the tree is considered as a new profiled object. +
66 Default: fractal,0.5. 66 Default: fractal,0.5.
67 67
68--stdio:: Use the stdio interface.
69
70--tui:: Use the TUI interface, that is integrated with annotate and allows
71 zooming into DSOs or threads, among other features. Use of --tui
72 requires a tty, if one is not present, as when piping to other
73 commands, the stdio interface is used.
74
68SEE ALSO 75SEE ALSO
69-------- 76--------
70linkperf:perf-stat[1] 77linkperf:perf-stat[1]