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authorArjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>2009-09-12 07:53:05 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-09-19 11:42:13 +0200
commit10274989fd595db455874fc2c83272fb33f6b27b (patch)
treebb2396ee910f480b4859ca5c3554ed2f5a822d17 /tools/perf/perf.c
parentperf: Add a SVG helper library file (diff)
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perf: Add the timechart tool
timechart is a tool to visualize what is going on in the system. The user makes a trace of what is going on with > perf record --timechart /usr/bin/some_command and then can turn the output of this into an svg file > perf timechart which then can be viewed with any SVG view; inkscape works well enough for me. The idea behind timechart is to create a "infinitely zoomable" picture; something that has high level information on a 1:1 zoom level, but which exposes more details every time you zoom into a specific area. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <20090912130713.6a77bbc0@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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diff --git a/tools/perf/perf.c b/tools/perf/perf.c
index c972d1c35489..19fc7feb9d59 100644
--- a/tools/perf/perf.c
+++ b/tools/perf/perf.c
@@ -289,6 +289,7 @@ static void handle_internal_command(int argc, const char **argv)
{ "record", cmd_record, 0 },
{ "report", cmd_report, 0 },
{ "stat", cmd_stat, 0 },
+ { "timechart", cmd_timechart, 0 },
{ "top", cmd_top, 0 },
{ "annotate", cmd_annotate, 0 },
{ "version", cmd_version, 0 },