perf: Add the timechart tool

timechart is a tool to visualize what is going on in the system.

The user makes a trace of what is going on with

 > perf record --timechart /usr/bin/some_command

and then can turn the output of this into an svg file

 > perf timechart

which then can be viewed with any SVG view; inkscape works well
enough for me.

The idea behind timechart is to create a "infinitely zoomable"
picture; something that has high level information on a 1:1 zoom
level, but which exposes more details every time you zoom into a
specific area.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090912130713.6a77bbc0@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/tools/perf/Makefile b/tools/perf/Makefile
index 0388e36587a8..0aba8b6e9c54 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Makefile
+++ b/tools/perf/Makefile
@@ -382,6 +382,7 @@ BUILTIN_OBJS += builtin-list.o
 BUILTIN_OBJS += builtin-record.o
 BUILTIN_OBJS += builtin-report.o
 BUILTIN_OBJS += builtin-stat.o
+BUILTIN_OBJS += builtin-timechart.o
 BUILTIN_OBJS += builtin-top.o
 BUILTIN_OBJS += builtin-trace.o
 
@@ -712,6 +713,12 @@ builtin-help.o: builtin-help.c common-cmds.h PERF-CFLAGS
                 '-DPERF_MAN_PATH="$(mandir_SQ)"' \
                 '-DPERF_INFO_PATH="$(infodir_SQ)"' $<
 
+builtin-timechart.o: builtin-timechart.c common-cmds.h PERF-CFLAGS
+        $(QUIET_CC)$(CC) -o $*.o -c $(ALL_CFLAGS) \
+                '-DPERF_HTML_PATH="$(htmldir_SQ)"' \
+                '-DPERF_MAN_PATH="$(mandir_SQ)"' \
+                '-DPERF_INFO_PATH="$(infodir_SQ)"' $<
+
 $(BUILT_INS): perf$X
         $(QUIET_BUILT_IN)$(RM) $@ && \
         ln perf$X $@ 2>/dev/null || \