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| author | Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com> | 2013-10-03 14:45:16 +0530 |
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| committer | Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> | 2013-10-11 12:18:13 -0300 |
| commit | d366c53e1d4fc9d7a5826fd82010b3cffaabe5f1 (patch) | |
| tree | f95dd72a04efa140ac3d1400f73e5657fa741aec /tools/perf/Documentation/perf-timechart.txt | |
| parent | 8a5411e9a3e65ab70b094022e5aa6deaec82ae7c (diff) | |
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/perf/Documentation/perf-timechart.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | tools/perf/Documentation/perf-timechart.txt | 15 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-timechart.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-timechart.txt index 1632b0efc757..3ff8bd4f0b4d 100644 --- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-timechart.txt +++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-timechart.txt @@ -8,7 +8,8 @@ perf-timechart - Tool to visualize total system behavior during a workload SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] -'perf timechart' {record} +'perf timechart' record <command> +'perf timechart' [<options>] DESCRIPTION ----------- @@ -41,6 +42,18 @@ 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. + SEE ALSO -------- linkperf:perf-record[1] |