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author | Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> | 2009-09-19 07:36:04 -0400 |
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committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2009-09-19 12:57:53 -0400 |
commit | 151750cec5db3c7ea45255d2901e581e2162317a (patch) | |
tree | ffd67e15d30599094c4e389380c90d4085d58c38 /tools/perf | |
parent | 288f023e708efd89d77ce9acf977a33a623ae83d (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>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/perf')
-rw-r--r-- | tools/perf/Documentation/perf-timechart.txt | 35 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | tools/perf/command-list.txt | 1 |
2 files changed, 36 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-timechart.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-timechart.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..61e0104c6270 --- /dev/null +++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-timechart.txt | |||
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@ | |||
1 | perf-timechart(1) | ||
2 | ================= | ||
3 | |||
4 | NAME | ||
5 | ---- | ||
6 | perf-timechart - Tool to visualize total system behavior during a workload | ||
7 | |||
8 | SYNOPSIS | ||
9 | -------- | ||
10 | [verse] | ||
11 | 'perf timechart' {record} | ||
12 | |||
13 | DESCRIPTION | ||
14 | ----------- | ||
15 | There 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 | |||
23 | OPTIONS | ||
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 | |||
33 | SEE ALSO | ||
34 | -------- | ||
35 | linkperf: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 | |||
8 | perf-record mainporcelain common | 8 | perf-record mainporcelain common |
9 | perf-report mainporcelain common | 9 | perf-report mainporcelain common |
10 | perf-stat mainporcelain common | 10 | perf-stat mainporcelain common |
11 | perf-timechart mainporcelain common | ||
11 | perf-top mainporcelain common | 12 | perf-top mainporcelain common |
12 | perf-trace mainporcelain common | 13 | perf-trace mainporcelain common |