From 151750cec5db3c7ea45255d2901e581e2162317a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Arjan van de Ven Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2009 13:36:04 +0200 Subject: 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 Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com Cc: peterz@infradead.org Cc: Paul Mackerras LKML-Reference: <20090919133604.3767fa35@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- tools/perf/Documentation/perf-timechart.txt | 35 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 35 insertions(+) create mode 100644 tools/perf/Documentation/perf-timechart.txt (limited to 'tools/perf/Documentation') diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-timechart.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-timechart.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..61e0104 --- /dev/null +++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-timechart.txt @@ -0,0 +1,35 @@ +perf-timechart(1) +================= + +NAME +---- +perf-timechart - Tool to visualize total system behavior during a workload + +SYNOPSIS +-------- +[verse] +'perf timechart' {record} + +DESCRIPTION +----------- +There are two variants of perf timechart: + + 'perf timechart record ' to record the system level events + of an arbitrary workload. + + 'perf timechart' to turn a trace into a Scalable Vector Graphics file, + that can be viewed with popular SVG viewers such as 'Inkscape'. + +OPTIONS +------- +-o:: +--output=:: + Select the output file (default: output.svg) +-i:: +--input=:: + Select the input file (default: perf.data) + + +SEE ALSO +-------- +linkperf:perf-record[1] -- cgit v1.1