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authorStanislav Fomichev <stfomichev@yandex-team.ru>2013-12-17 19:53:49 +0400
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2013-12-17 16:33:55 -0300
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perf timechart: Add --highlight option
This option highlights tasks (using different color) that run more than given duration or tasks with given name. Signed-off-by: Stanislav Fomichev <stfomichev@yandex-team.ru> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20131217155349.GA13021@stfomichev-desktop Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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@@ -56,12 +56,25 @@ $ perf timechart
Written 10.2 seconds of trace to output.svg.
+Record system-wide timechart:
+
+ $ perf timechart record
+
+ then generate timechart and highlight 'gcc' tasks:
+
+ $ perf timechart --highlight gcc
+
-n::
--proc-num::
Print task info for at least given number of tasks.
-t::
--topology::
Sort CPUs according to topology.
+--highlight=<duration_nsecs|task_name>::
+ Highlight tasks (using different color) that run more than given
+ duration or tasks with given name. If number is given it's interpreted
+ as number of nanoseconds. If non-numeric string is given it's
+ interpreted as task name.
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