tools/perf/Documentation/perf-data.txt
Source file repositories/reference/linux-study-clean/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-data.txt
File Facts
- System
- Linux kernel
- Corpus path
tools/perf/Documentation/perf-data.txt- Extension
.txt- Size
- 2010 bytes
- Lines
- 83
- Domain
- Support Tooling And Documentation
- Bucket
- tools
- Inferred role
- Support Tooling And Documentation: documentation
- Status
- atlas-only
Why This File Exists
Repository support layer: documentation, build tooling, samples, user-space helper tools, generated initramfs support, licenses, and validation utilities.
- Repository support layer: documentation, build tooling, samples, user-space helper tools, generated initramfs support, licenses, and validation utilities.
Dependency Surface
- No C-style include directives detected by the generator.
Detected Declarations
- No top-level syscall, struct, function, initcall, or export declaration detected by the generator.
Annotated Snippet
perf-data(1)
============
NAME
----
perf-data - Data file related processing
SYNOPSIS
--------
[verse]
'perf data' [<common options>] <command> [<options>]",
DESCRIPTION
-----------
Data file related processing.
COMMANDS
--------
convert::
Converts perf data file into another format.
It's possible to set data-convert debug variable to get debug messages from conversion,
like:
perf --debug data-convert data convert ...
OPTIONS for 'convert'
---------------------
--to-ctf::
Triggers the CTF conversion, specify the path of CTF data directory.
--to-json::
Triggers JSON conversion. Specify the JSON filename to output.
--tod::
Convert time to wall clock time.
-i::
Specify input perf data file path.
-f::
--force::
Don't complain, do it.
--time::
Only convert samples within given time window: <start>,<stop>. Times
have the format seconds.nanoseconds. If start is not given (i.e. time
string is ',x.y') then analysis starts at the beginning of the file. If
stop time is not given (i.e. time string is 'x.y,') then analysis goes
to end of file. Multiple ranges can be separated by spaces, which
requires the argument to be quoted e.g. --time "1234.567,1234.789 1235,"
Also support time percent with multiple time ranges. Time string is
'a%/n,b%/m,...' or 'a%-b%,c%-%d,...'.
For example:
Select the second 10% time slice:
perf data convert --to-json out.json --time 10%/2
Select from 0% to 10% time slice:
perf data convert --to-json out.json --time 0%-10%
Select the first and second 10% time slices:
perf data convert --to-json out.json --time 10%/1,10%/2
Select from 0% to 10% and 30% to 40% slices:
perf data convert --to-json out.json --time 0%-10%,30%-40%
Annotation
- Atlas domain: Support Tooling And Documentation / tools.
- Implementation status: atlas-only.
Implementation Notes
- This generated page is the file-by-file coverage layer; curated subsystem chapters should link here when they synthesize a multi-file control flow.
- Core OS pages should be promoted from atlas-only to deep-reviewed when they explain data structures, invariants, locking, lifecycle, and C implementation snippets.
- Driver-family pages are intentionally pattern-oriented unless they are part of the selected PCIe/NVMe representative device path.