linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] perf: add callgrind conversion tool

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Message-ID: <20130328235829.GA22981@us.ibm.com>
Date:	Thu, 28 Mar 2013 16:58:30 -0700
From:	Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	Roberto Vitillo <ravitillo@....gov>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl,
	paulus@...ba.org, mingo@...hat.com, acme@...stprotocols.net,
	namhyung@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] perf: add callgrind conversion tool

Roberto Vitillo [ravitillo@....gov] wrote:
| The proposed patch adds the convert tool to perf which allows to convert a
| perf.data file to a set of callgrind data files which can subsequently be
| displayed with kcachegrind.

Sounds interesting and useful. My only comment is that 'convert' is a
generic term and this is converting to a specific format (i.e callgrind).
In theory we could have conversions to other formats in the future ?

Any chance it could be called 'perf callgrind' ?

Sukadev

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