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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2014-06-21 17:07:17 (GMT)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2014-06-21 17:07:17 (GMT)
commit401c58fcbbf570e7e4a8ee0e21ffd829deb4de0b (patch)
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Merge branch 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull perf fixes from Ingo Molnar: "This is larger than usual: the main reason are the ARM symbol lookup speedups that came in late and were hard to resist. There's also a kprobes fix and various tooling fixes, plus the minimal re-enablement of the mmap2 support interface" * 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (36 commits) x86/kprobes: Fix build errors and blacklist context_track_user perf tests: Add test for closing dso objects on EMFILE error perf tests: Add test for caching dso file descriptors perf tests: Allow reuse of test_file function perf tests: Spawn child for each test perf tools: Add dso__data_* interface descriptons perf tools: Allow to close dso fd in case of open failure perf tools: Add file size check and factor dso__data_read_offset perf tools: Cache dso data file descriptor perf tools: Add global count of opened dso objects perf tools: Add global list of opened dso objects perf tools: Add data_fd into dso object perf tools: Separate dso data related variables perf tools: Cache register accesses for unwind processing perf record: Fix to honor user freq/interval properly perf timechart: Reflow documentation perf probe: Improve error messages in --line option perf probe: Improve an error message of perf probe --vars mode perf probe: Show error code and description in verbose mode perf probe: Improve error message for unknown member of data structure ...
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@@ -43,27 +43,6 @@ TIMECHART OPTIONS
--symfs=<directory>::
Look for files with symbols relative to this directory.
-
-EXAMPLES
---------
-
-$ perf timechart record git pull
-
- [ perf record: Woken up 13 times to write data ]
- [ perf record: Captured and wrote 4.253 MB perf.data (~185801 samples) ]
-
-$ 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.
@@ -88,6 +67,26 @@ RECORD OPTIONS
--callchain::
Do call-graph (stack chain/backtrace) recording
+EXAMPLES
+--------
+
+$ perf timechart record git pull
+
+ [ perf record: Woken up 13 times to write data ]
+ [ perf record: Captured and wrote 4.253 MB perf.data (~185801 samples) ]
+
+$ 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
+
SEE ALSO
--------
linkperf:perf-record[1]