linux/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-timechart.txt
Arjan van de Ven bbe2987bea 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>
2009-10-20 07:55:50 +02:00

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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)
-w::
--width=::
Select the width of the SVG file (default: 1000)
-P::
--power-only::
Only output the CPU power section of the diagram
-p::
--process::
Select the processes to display, by name or PID
SEE ALSO
--------
linkperf:perf-record[1]