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authorArjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>2009-09-19 07:36:04 -0400
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-09-19 12:57:53 -0400
commit151750cec5db3c7ea45255d2901e581e2162317a (patch)
treeffd67e15d30599094c4e389380c90d4085d58c38 /tools/perf
parent288f023e708efd89d77ce9acf977a33a623ae83d (diff)
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> Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com Cc: peterz@infradead.org Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> LKML-Reference: <20090919133604.3767fa35@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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-rw-r--r--tools/perf/Documentation/perf-timechart.txt35
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/command-list.txt1
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diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-timechart.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-timechart.txt
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1perf-timechart(1)
2=================
3
4NAME
5----
6perf-timechart - Tool to visualize total system behavior during a workload
7
8SYNOPSIS
9--------
10[verse]
11'perf timechart' {record}
12
13DESCRIPTION
14-----------
15There are two variants of perf timechart:
16
17 'perf timechart record <command>' to record the system level events
18 of an arbitrary workload.
19
20 'perf timechart' to turn a trace into a Scalable Vector Graphics file,
21 that can be viewed with popular SVG viewers such as 'Inkscape'.
22
23OPTIONS
24-------
25-o::
26--output=::
27 Select the output file (default: output.svg)
28-i::
29--input=::
30 Select the input file (default: perf.data)
31
32
33SEE ALSO
34--------
35linkperf:perf-record[1]
diff --git a/tools/perf/command-list.txt b/tools/perf/command-list.txt
index 3133c74729dd..00326e230d87 100644
--- a/tools/perf/command-list.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/command-list.txt
@@ -8,5 +8,6 @@ perf-sched mainporcelain common
8perf-record mainporcelain common 8perf-record mainporcelain common
9perf-report mainporcelain common 9perf-report mainporcelain common
10perf-stat mainporcelain common 10perf-stat mainporcelain common
11perf-timechart mainporcelain common
11perf-top mainporcelain common 12perf-top mainporcelain common
12perf-trace mainporcelain common 13perf-trace mainporcelain common