linux-stable/tools/perf/Documentation
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo ab81f3fd35 perf top: Reuse the 'report' hist_entry/hists classes
This actually fixes several problems we had in the old 'perf top':

1. Unresolved symbols not show, limitation that came from the old
   "KernelTop" codebase, to solve it we would need to do changes
   that would make sym_entry have most of the hist_entry fields.
2. It was using the number of samples, not the sum of sample->period.

And brings the --sort code that allows us to have all the views in
'perf report', for instance:

[root@emilia ~]# perf top --sort dso
PerfTop: 5903 irqs/sec kernel:77.5% exact: 0.0% [1000Hz cycles], (all, 8 CPUs)
------------------------------------------------------------------------------

    31.59%  libcrypto.so.1.0.0
    21.55%  [kernel]
    18.57%  libpython2.6.so.1.0
     7.04%  libc-2.12.so
     6.99%  _backend_agg.so
     4.72%  sshd
     1.48%  multiarray.so
     1.39%  libfreetype.so.6.3.22
     1.37%  perf
     0.71%  libgobject-2.0.so.0.2200.5
     0.53%  [tg3]
     0.48%  libglib-2.0.so.0.2200.5
     0.44%  libstdc++.so.6.0.13
     0.40%  libcairo.so.2.10800.8
     0.38%  libm-2.12.so
     0.34%  umath.so
     0.30%  libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0.1800.9
     0.22%  libpthread-2.12.so
     0.20%  libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0.1800.9
     0.20%  librt-2.12.so
     0.15%  _path.so
     0.13%  libpango-1.0.so.0.2800.1
     0.11%  libatlas.so.3.0
     0.09%  ft2font.so
     0.09%  libpangoft2-1.0.so.0.2800.1
     0.08%  libX11.so.6.3.0
     0.07%  [vdso]
     0.06%  cyclictest
^C

All the filter lists can be used as well: --dsos, --comms, --symbols,
etc.

The 'perf report' TUI is also reused, being possible to apply all the
zoom operations, do annotation, etc.

This change will allow multiple simplifications in the symbol system as
well, that will be detailed in upcoming changesets.

Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-xzaaldxq7zhqrrxdxjifk1mh@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-10-07 16:56:44 -03:00
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asciidoc.conf perf_counter tools: Move from Documentation/perf_counter/ to tools/perf/ 2009-06-06 20:33:43 +02:00
examples.txt perf: Rename perf-examples.txt to examples.txt 2009-08-17 10:43:42 +02:00
Makefile perf tools: Update Makefile with some help 2011-02-16 14:47:56 -02:00
manpage-1.72.xsl perf_counter tools: Move from Documentation/perf_counter/ to tools/perf/ 2009-06-06 20:33:43 +02:00
manpage-base.xsl perf_counter tools: Move from Documentation/perf_counter/ to tools/perf/ 2009-06-06 20:33:43 +02:00
manpage-bold-literal.xsl perf_counter tools: Move from Documentation/perf_counter/ to tools/perf/ 2009-06-06 20:33:43 +02:00
manpage-normal.xsl perf_counter tools: Move from Documentation/perf_counter/ to tools/perf/ 2009-06-06 20:33:43 +02:00
manpage-suppress-sp.xsl perf_counter tools: Move from Documentation/perf_counter/ to tools/perf/ 2009-06-06 20:33:43 +02:00
perf-annotate.txt perf: Support setting the disassembler style 2011-09-29 17:10:00 -03:00
perf-archive.txt perf archive: Add documentation 2010-01-20 08:54:58 +01:00
perf-bench.txt perf tools: Fixup minor doc formatting issues 2010-05-05 11:23:27 -03:00
perf-buildid-cache.txt perf man pages: Fix cut'n'paste error 2010-07-28 11:30:10 -03:00
perf-buildid-list.txt perf buildid-list: Support showing the build id in an ELF file 2011-09-29 16:41:37 -03:00
perf-diff.txt perf symbols: Add symfs option for off-box analysis using specified tree 2010-12-21 20:17:51 -02:00
perf-evlist.txt perf evlist: New command to list the names of events present in a perf.data file 2011-03-15 11:10:48 -03:00
perf-help.txt perf_counter tools: Move from Documentation/perf_counter/ to tools/perf/ 2009-06-06 20:33:43 +02:00
perf-inject.txt perf inject: Add missing bits 2010-05-04 10:48:22 -03:00
perf-kmem.txt perf tools: Fixup minor doc formatting issues 2010-05-05 11:23:27 -03:00
perf-kvm.txt perf kvm: Document missing options 2010-12-01 18:22:46 -02:00
perf-list.txt perf list: Allow filtering list of events 2011-02-17 15:38:58 -02:00
perf-lock.txt perf lock: Document valid sort keys 2011-02-23 07:29:33 -03:00
perf-probe.txt perf probe: Support adding probes on offline kernel modules 2011-07-15 16:25:12 -04:00
perf-record.txt perf tool: Add cgroup support 2011-02-16 13:30:48 +01:00
perf-report.txt perf report: Add option to show total period 2011-10-07 12:12:13 -03:00
perf-sched.txt perf sched: Fix script command documentation 2011-09-29 17:10:34 -03:00
perf-script-perl.txt sched: Get rid of lock_depth 2011-04-24 13:18:38 +02:00
perf-script-python.txt sched: Get rid of lock_depth 2011-04-24 13:18:38 +02:00
perf-script.txt perf report/annotate/script: Add option to specify a CPU range 2011-07-05 10:44:44 +02:00
perf-stat.txt perf stat: Add --log-fd <N> option to redirect stderr elsewhere 2011-09-29 17:03:23 -03:00
perf-test.txt perf test: Fix spelling mistake in documentation 2010-12-01 18:22:49 -02:00
perf-timechart.txt perf symbols: Add symfs option for off-box analysis using specified tree 2010-12-21 20:17:51 -02:00
perf-top.txt perf top: Reuse the 'report' hist_entry/hists classes 2011-10-07 16:56:44 -03:00
perf.txt perf: Fix few typos + cosmetics 2010-01-13 17:39:44 +01:00