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

From: Namhyung Kim
Date: Fri Mar 29 2013 - 00:19:05 EST


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

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

Thanks,
Namhyung
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