History log of /linux-master/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-timechart.txt
Revision Date Author Comments
# f4a30d2b 16-Nov-2017 Sihyeon Jang <uneedsihyeon@gmail.com>

perf timechart: Document missing --force option

Add --force to the man page.

Signed-off-by: Sihyeon Jang <uneedsihyeon@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1510842367-11011-3-git-send-email-uneedsihyeon@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>


# d243144a 08-Jul-2014 Stanislav Fomichev <stfomichev@yandex-team.ru>

perf timechart: Add more options to IO mode

--io-skip-eagain - don't show EAGAIN errors
--io-min-time - make small io bursts visible
--io-merge-dist - merge adjacent events

Signed-off-by: Stanislav Fomichev <stfomichev@yandex-team.ru>
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/1404835423-23098-5-git-send-email-stfomichev@yandex-team.ru
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>


# b97b59b9 08-Jul-2014 Stanislav Fomichev <stfomichev@yandex-team.ru>

perf timechart: Implement IO mode

Currently, timechart records only scheduler and CPU events (task switches,
running times, CPU power states, etc); this commit adds IO mode which
makes it possible to record IO (disk, network) activity. In this mode
perf timechart will generate SVG with IO charts (writes, reads, tx, rx, polls).

Signed-off-by: Stanislav Fomichev <stfomichev@yandex-team.ru>
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/1404835423-23098-3-git-send-email-stfomichev@yandex-team.ru
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>


# f48e00ce 10-Jun-2014 Stanislav Fomichev <stfomichev@yandex-team.ru>

perf timechart: Reflow documentation

Move options away from examples.

Signed-off-by: Stanislav Fomichev <stfomichev@yandex-team.ru>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140610095216.GO26511@stfomichev-desktop.yandex.net
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>


# e57a2dff 17-Dec-2013 Stanislav Fomichev <stfomichev@yandex-team.ru>

perf timechart: Add --highlight option

This option highlights tasks (using different color) that run more than
given duration or tasks with given name.

Signed-off-by: Stanislav Fomichev <stfomichev@yandex-team.ru>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20131217155349.GA13021@stfomichev-desktop
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>


# c5079997 02-Dec-2013 Stanislav Fomichev <stfomichev@yandex-team.ru>

perf timechart: Add support for topology

Add -t switch to sort CPUs topologically.

Signed-off-by: Stanislav Fomichev <stfomichev@yandex-team.ru>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1385995056-20158-5-git-send-email-stfomichev@yandex-team.ru
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>


# 6f8d67fa 01-Nov-2013 Stanislav Fomichev <stfomichev@yandex-team.ru>

perf timechart: Add backtrace support

Add -g flag to `perf timechart record` which saves callchain info in the
perf.data.

When generating SVG, add backtrace information to the figure details, so
now it's possible to see which code path woke up the task and why some
task went to sleep.

Signed-off-by: Stanislav Fomichev <stfomichev@yandex-team.ru>
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1383323151-19810-8-git-send-email-stfomichev@yandex-team.ru
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>


# 367b3152 01-Nov-2013 Stanislav Fomichev <stfomichev@yandex-team.ru>

perf timechart: Add support for -P and -T in timechart recording

If we don't want either power or task events we may use -T or -P with
the `perf timechart record` command to filter out events while recording
to keep perf.data small.

Signed-off-by: Stanislav Fomichev <stfomichev@yandex-team.ru>
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1383323151-19810-7-git-send-email-stfomichev@yandex-team.ru
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>


# c87097d3 01-Nov-2013 Stanislav Fomichev <stfomichev@yandex-team.ru>

perf timechart: Add support for displaying only tasks related data

In order to make SVG smaller and faster to browse add possibility to
switch off power related information with -T switch.

Signed-off-by: Stanislav Fomichev <stfomichev@yandex-team.ru>
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1383323151-19810-5-git-send-email-stfomichev@yandex-team.ru
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>


# 54874e32 01-Nov-2013 Stanislav Fomichev <stfomichev@yandex-team.ru>

perf timechart: Add option to limit number of tasks

Add -n option to specify min. number of tasks to print.

Signed-off-by: Stanislav Fomichev <stfomichev@yandex-team.ru>
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1383323151-19810-3-git-send-email-stfomichev@yandex-team.ru
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>


# d366c53e 03-Oct-2013 Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>

perf timechart: Add example in the documentation

While at it, update the synopsis to show both forms.

Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1380791716-10325-1-git-send-email-artagnon@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>


# efad1415 07-Dec-2011 Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>

perf report: Accept fifos as input file

The default input file for perf report is not handled the same way as
perf record does it for its output file. This leads to unexpected
behavior of perf report, etc. E.g.:

# perf record -a -e cpu-cycles sleep 2 | perf report | cat
failed to open perf.data: No such file or directory (try 'perf record' first)

While perf record writes to a fifo, perf report expects perf.data to be
read. This patch changes this to accept fifos as input file.

Applies to the following commands:

perf annotate
perf buildid-list
perf evlist
perf kmem
perf lock
perf report
perf sched
perf script
perf timechart

Also fixes char const* -> const char* type declaration for filename
strings.

v2:
* Prevent potential null pointer access to input_name in
builtin-report.c. Needed due to removal of patch "perf report: Setup
browser if stdout is a pipe"

Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1323248577-11268-5-git-send-email-robert.richter@amd.com
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>


# ec5761ea 09-Dec-2010 David Ahern <daahern@cisco.com>

perf symbols: Add symfs option for off-box analysis using specified tree

The symfs argument allows analysis of perf.data file using a locally accessible
filesystem tree with debug symbols - e.g., tree created during image builds,
sshfs mount, loop mounted KVM disk images, USB keys, initrds, etc. Anything
with an OS tree can be analyzed from anywhere without the need to populate a
local data store with build-ids.

Commiter notes:

o Fixed up symfs="/" variants handling.

o prefixed DSO__ORIG_GUEST_KMODULE case with symfs too, avoiding use of files
outside the symfs directory.

LKML-Reference: <1291926427-28846-1-git-send-email-daahern@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: David Ahern <daahern@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>


# bbe2987b 19-Oct-2009 Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>

perf timechart: Add a process filter

During the Kernel Summit demo of perf/ftrace/timechart, there
was a feature request to have a process filter for timechart so
that you can zoom into one or a few processes that you are
really interested in.

This patch adds basic support for this feature, the -p
(--process) option now can select a PID or a process name to be
shown. Multiple -p options are allowed, and the combined set
will be included in the output.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20091020070939.7d0fb8a7@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>


# 39a90a8e 24-Sep-2009 Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>

perf timechart: Add a power-only mode

For doing work on the Linux power management components, I need to
make long (30+ seconds) traces. Currently, this then results in a
HUGE svg file, with mostly process data that isn't interesting.

This patch adds a --power-only mode to perf timechart that only
outputs the CPU power section of the SVG; this significantly
reduces the size of the SVG file, making even 30+ second traces
viewable with inkscape.

As a minor tweak for the same effect, the minimum text size is
decreased; current inkscape cannot zoom in deep enough to show text
this small, but it reduces inkscape compute time.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
LKML-Reference: <20090924154013.0675ab71@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>


# 5094b655 20-Sep-2009 Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>

perf util: Make the timechart SVG width dynamic

This patch adds a command line option for timechart that allows the
user to specify the width of the SVG file.

This patch also makes sure that each second of recording has at
least 200 units (pixels at 96 DPI) of width. This impacts
recordings longer than 5 seconds; recordings shorter than 5 second
will scale up to have a width of 1000 units for the whole recording
(as before).

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090920181416.69570c5d@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>


# 151750ce 19-Sep-2009 Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>

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>