svn commit: r262424 - head/usr.sbin/pmcstat

[John-Mark Gurney]

Adrian Chadd wrote this message on Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 07:54 -0800:
> I'll sit down with a docs person and get the manpage markup done. It
> was on my todo list; I just wanted to get the code committed now.

Also, don't forget to document EVFILT_SENDFILE too!

> On 24 February 2014 03:06, Gleb Smirnoff <glebius at freebsd.org> wrote:
> >   Adrian,
> >
> > On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 02:43:58AM +0000, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> > A> Log:
> > A>   Add a new option - 'a <file>' - which spits out annotated callgraphs.
> > A>
> > A>   '-m <file>' spits out the given stream into <file> (eg, /dev/stdout).
> > A>   However, it only resolves the first symbol; it doesn't parse the entire
> > A>   callgraph.  If it fails to lookup then it doesn't print anything.
> > A>
> > A>   '-a' instead does a symbol and file:line lookup for each address in each
> > A>   callgraph and will happily print the address itself with no lookup
> > A>   information if it couldn't look things up.
> > A>
> > A>   This makes it much easier to pull out individual records from a
> > A>   pmc data file and look at the callgraph information without having to
> > A>   hand-decode the addresses.
> > A>
> > A>   Sponsored by:      Netflix, Inc.
> >
> > Is it possible to spend 5 minutes and document new features in pmcstat(8)?
> > Please!

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