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

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Message-ID: <20130329041848.GA27063@danjae>
Date:	Fri, 29 Mar 2013 13:18:48 +0900
From:	Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>
To:	Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	Roberto Vitillo <ravitillo@....gov>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl, paulus@...ba.org, mingo@...hat.com,
	acme@...stprotocols.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] perf: add callgrind conversion tool

On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 04:58:30PM -0700, Sukadev Bhattiprolu wrote:
> 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 ?

Maybe we can support converting to CTF or someother formats which have
nice viewer?

Thanks,
Namhyung
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