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authorArjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>2009-09-19 13:36:04 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-09-19 18:57:53 +0200
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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>
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+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 <command>' 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]