Re: [PATCH v2] perf: add callgrind conversion tool

From: Sukadev Bhattiprolu
Date: Thu Mar 28 2013 - 19:59:26 EST


Roberto Vitillo [ravitillo@xxxxxxx] 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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