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authorStanislav Fomichev2013-11-01 17:25:51 +0100
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo2013-11-27 18:58:37 +0100
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perf timechart: Add backtrace support
Add -g flag to `perf timechart record` which saves callchain info in the perf.data. When generating SVG, add backtrace information to the figure details, so now it's possible to see which code path woke up the task and why some task went to sleep. Signed-off-by: Stanislav Fomichev <stfomichev@yandex-team.ru> Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1383323151-19810-8-git-send-email-stfomichev@yandex-team.ru Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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@@ -68,6 +68,9 @@ RECORD OPTIONS
-T::
--tasks-only::
Record only tasks-related events
+-g::
+--callchain::
+ Do call-graph (stack chain/backtrace) recording
SEE ALSO
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