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authorArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2011-10-05 19:30:22 -0300
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2011-10-07 16:59:59 -0300
commit19d4ac3c1039fb952f4c073fd0898e9295a836c8 (patch)
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perf top: Add callgraph support
Just like in 'perf report', but live. Still needs to decay the callchains, but already somewhat useful as-is. 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-cj3rmaf5jpsvi3v0tf7t4uvp@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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@@ -126,6 +126,21 @@ Default is to monitor all CPUS.
--symbols::
Only consider these symbols.
+-G [type,min,order]::
+--call-graph::
+ Display call chains using type, min percent threshold and order.
+ type can be either:
+ - flat: single column, linear exposure of call chains.
+ - graph: use a graph tree, displaying absolute overhead rates.
+ - fractal: like graph, but displays relative rates. Each branch of
+ the tree is considered as a new profiled object.
+
+ order can be either:
+ - callee: callee based call graph.
+ - caller: inverted caller based call graph.
+
+ Default: fractal,0.5,callee.
+
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