From: Simon Que Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2016 18:37:53 +0000 (-0700) Subject: perf tools: Update documentation info about quipper X-Git-Url: https://git.stricted.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=2acad19500c28ce0c4dc3f9bf1dcfc82040b6531;p=GitHub%2Fmoto-9609%2Fandroid_kernel_motorola_exynos9610.git perf tools: Update documentation info about quipper The existing link is outdated. The most recent quipper code can be found at the new URL. Committer notes: Quipper is a C++ parser that can be used to convert from a perf.data file to and from a protobuf, a Chromium OS facility. Signed-off-by: Simon Que Acked-by: Andi Kleen Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: Chong Jiang Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-4q1nm7jl3vovp66p5bki20pq@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo --- diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf.data-file-format.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf.data-file-format.txt index fdc99fe6bbc3..b664b18d3991 100644 --- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf.data-file-format.txt +++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf.data-file-format.txt @@ -437,6 +437,10 @@ in pmu-tools parser. This allows to read perf.data from python and dump it. quipper The quipper C++ parser is available at -https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/platform/chromiumos-wide-profiling/ +https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/platform2 + +It is under the chromiumos-wide-profiling/ subdirectory. This library can +convert a perf data file to a protobuf and vice versa. + Unfortunately this parser tends to be many versions behind and may not be able to parse data files generated by recent perf.