perf: Add timechart help text and add timechart to "perf help"

As suggested by Ingo, add a timechart man page help text, as well
as add it to the "perf help" overview.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <20090919133604.3767fa35@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Arjan van de Ven 2009-09-19 13:36:04 +02:00 committed by Ingo Molnar
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perf-timechart(1)
=================
NAME
----
perf-timechart - Tool to visualize total system behavior during a workload
SYNOPSIS
--------
[verse]
'perf timechart' {record}
DESCRIPTION
-----------
There are two variants of perf timechart:
'perf timechart record <command>' to record the system level events
of an arbitrary workload.
'perf timechart' to turn a trace into a Scalable Vector Graphics file,
that can be viewed with popular SVG viewers such as 'Inkscape'.
OPTIONS
-------
-o::
--output=::
Select the output file (default: output.svg)
-i::
--input=::
Select the input file (default: perf.data)
SEE ALSO
--------
linkperf:perf-record[1]

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perf-record mainporcelain common
perf-report mainporcelain common
perf-stat mainporcelain common
perf-timechart mainporcelain common
perf-top mainporcelain common
perf-trace mainporcelain common