Re: [PATCH 7/8] perf: Add a perf record --timechart option

[Arjan van de Ven]

On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 10:06:00 +0200
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Sat, 2009-09-12 at 13:06 +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > This patch adds a "perf record --timechart" option, to make it easy
> > to capture traces for use by the timechart tool.
> 
> Would it perhaps make sense to make that:
> 
>  perf timechart record

well yes, but it would just be an alias for the former, since it's the
record code that has to do the recording... and that's a rather obscene
layering violation in how perf is set up I think.


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