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perf: Add timechart help text and add timechart to "perf help"
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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 <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]>
LKML-Reference: <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
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Arjan van de Ven authored and Ingo Molnar committed Sep 19, 2009
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perf-timechart(1)
=================

NAME
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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)


SEE ALSO
--------
linkperf:perf-record[1]
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perf-record mainporcelain common
perf-report mainporcelain common
perf-stat mainporcelain common
perf-timechart mainporcelain common
perf-top mainporcelain common
perf-trace mainporcelain common

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