linux/tools/perf/Documentation
Kan Liang 9e207ddfa2 perf report: Show call graph from reference events
Introduce --show-ref-call-graph for perf report to print reference
callgraph for no callgraph event.

Here is an example.

 perf report --show-ref-call-graph --stdio

 # To display the perf.data header info, please use
 --header/--header-only options.
 #
 #
 # Total Lost Samples: 0
 #
 # Samples: 5  of event 'cpu/cpu-cycles,call-graph=fp/'
 # Event count (approx.): 144985
 #
 # Children      Self  Command  Shared Object     Symbol
 # ........  ........  .......  ................  ........................................
 #
    72.30%     0.00%  sleep    [kernel.vmlinux]  [k] entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath
              |
              ---entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath
                 |
                 |--22.62%-- __GI___libc_nanosleep
                  --77.38%-- [...]

......

 # Samples: 6  of event 'cpu/instructions,call-graph=no/', show reference callgraph
 # Event count (approx.): 172780
 #
 # Children      Self  Command  Shared Object     Symbol
 # ........  ........  .......  ................  ........................................
 #
    73.16%     0.00%  sleep    [kernel.vmlinux]  [k] entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath
              |
              ---entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath
                 |
                 |--31.44%-- __GI___libc_nanosleep
                  --68.56%-- [...]

Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@intel.com>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1439289050-40510-3-git-send-email-kan.liang@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2015-08-12 13:20:28 -03:00
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android.txt perf tools: Add info about cross compiling for Android ARM 2012-10-31 12:17:49 -02:00
asciidoc.conf
Build.txt perf build: Add build documentation 2015-02-12 17:53:00 -03:00
callchain-overhead-calculation.txt perf tools: Document --children option in more detail 2015-04-29 10:38:06 -03:00
examples.txt perf record: Remove -f/--force option 2013-07-08 17:37:25 -03:00
jit-interface.txt perf symbols: Add description of JIT interface 2012-08-13 14:55:02 -03:00
Makefile perf tools: Implement summary output for 'make install' 2013-10-11 12:18:11 -03:00
manpage-1.72.xsl
manpage-base.xsl
manpage-bold-literal.xsl
manpage-normal.xsl
manpage-suppress-sp.xsl
perf-annotate.txt perf annotate: Add basic support to event group view 2013-03-15 13:06:05 -03:00
perf-archive.txt perf archive: Remove duplicated 'runs' in man page 2013-12-09 15:21:45 -03:00
perf-bench.txt perf bench futex: Add lock_pi stresser 2015-07-20 17:49:51 -03:00
perf-buildid-cache.txt perf buildid-cache: Add --purge FILE to remove all caches of FILE 2015-02-27 15:52:33 -03:00
perf-buildid-list.txt perf report: Accept fifos as input file 2011-12-23 17:01:03 -02:00
perf-data.txt perf data: Add perf data to CTF conversion support 2015-02-25 16:13:12 -03:00
perf-diff.txt perf diff: Add kallsyms option 2015-03-24 13:01:54 -03:00
perf-evlist.txt perf evlist: Add --group option 2013-01-31 13:07:49 -03:00
perf-help.txt
perf-inject.txt perf auxtrace: Add option to synthesize events for transactions 2015-05-05 18:12:55 -03:00
perf-kmem.txt perf kmem: Add --live option for current allocation stat 2015-05-04 13:34:47 -03:00
perf-kvm.txt perf tools: Configurable per thread proc map processing time out 2015-06-19 18:27:13 -03:00
perf-list.txt perf tools: Add 'I' event modifier for exclude_idle bit 2015-04-08 11:00:16 -03:00
perf-lock.txt perf lock: Account for lock average wait time 2013-10-09 11:24:01 -03:00
perf-mem.txt perf mem: Enable sampling loads and stores simultaneously 2015-01-21 13:24:31 -03:00
perf-probe.txt perf probe: Add --no-inlines option to avoid searching inline functions 2015-05-08 16:26:44 -03:00
perf-record.txt perf callchain: Allow disabling call graphs per event 2015-08-12 13:20:28 -03:00
perf-report.txt perf report: Show call graph from reference events 2015-08-12 13:20:28 -03:00
perf-sched.txt perf report: Accept fifos as input file 2011-12-23 17:01:03 -02:00
perf-script-perl.txt perf Documentation: Fix typos in perf/Documentation 2014-10-15 17:39:02 -03:00
perf-script-python.txt perf Documentation: Fix typos in perf/Documentation 2014-10-15 17:39:02 -03:00
perf-script.txt perf tools: Support full source file paths for srcline 2015-08-10 11:58:05 -03:00
perf-stat.txt perf stat: Introduce --per-thread option 2015-06-26 12:05:04 -03:00
perf-test.txt perf Documentation: Fix typos in perf/Documentation 2014-10-15 17:39:02 -03:00
perf-timechart.txt perf timechart: Add more options to IO mode 2014-07-10 00:22:54 +02:00
perf-top.txt perf top: Add branch annotation code to top 2015-08-06 16:39:22 -03:00
perf-trace.txt perf tools: Configurable per thread proc map processing time out 2015-06-19 18:27:13 -03:00
perf.txt perf data: Add perf data to CTF conversion support 2015-02-25 16:13:12 -03:00
perfconfig.example perf annotate browser: Read perf config file for settings 2012-05-29 22:06:30 -03:00