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| author |   Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> | 2010-08-21 10:38:16 -0300 |
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| committer | Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> | 2010-08-21 10:49:46 -0300 |
| commit | 8b9e74eb8af808807192d16b76565c27154ae7ed (patch) | |
| tree | 699863e988c6b373402f473298529715cce35fdf /tools/perf/Documentation/perf-annotate.txt | |
| parent | perf: Remove superfluous return values from perf_callchain_*() (diff) | |
| download | linux-dev-8b9e74eb8af808807192d16b76565c27154ae7ed.tar.xz linux-dev-8b9e74eb8af808807192d16b76565c27154ae7ed.zip | |
perf tools: Add --tui and --stdio to choose the UI
Relying just on ~/.perfconfig or rebuilding the tool disabling support
for the TUI is too cumbersome, so allow specifying which UI to use and
make the command line switch override whatever is in ~/.perfconfig.
Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/perf/Documentation/perf-annotate.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | tools/perf/Documentation/perf-annotate.txt | 11 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-annotate.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-annotate.txt index 5164a655c39f..b2c63309a651 100644 --- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-annotate.txt +++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-annotate.txt @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ perf-annotate - Read perf.data (created by perf record) and display annotated co SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] -'perf annotate' [-i <file> | --input=file] symbol_name +'perf annotate' [-i <file> | --input=file] [symbol_name] DESCRIPTION ----------- @@ -24,6 +24,13 @@ OPTIONS --input=:: Input file name. (default: perf.data) +--stdio:: Use the stdio interface. + +--tui:: Use the TUI interface Use of --tui requires a tty, if one is not + present, as when piping to other commands, the stdio interface is + used. This interfaces starts by centering on the line with more + samples, TAB/UNTAB cycles thru the lines with more samples. + SEE ALSO -------- -linkperf:perf-record[1] +linkperf:perf-record[1], linkperf:perf-report[1] |