Introduction

The perf_to_profile binary can be used to turn a perf.data file, which is generated by the linux profiler, perf, into a profile.proto file which can be visualized using the tool pprof.

For details on pprof, see https://github.com/google/pprof

THIS IS NOT AN OFFICIAL GOOGLE PRODUCT

Prerequisites:

• Protocol buffers: http://github.com/google/protobuf
• Google Test: http://github.com/google/googletest

Compilation

make perf_to_profile

Usage:

Profile a command using perf, for example:

perf record /bin/ls

The example command will generate a profile named perf.data, you should convert this into a profile.proto then visualize it using pprof:

perf_to_profile perf.data profile.pb
pprof -web profile.pb

Recent versions of pprof will automatically invoke perf_to_profile:

pprof -web perf.data