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authorNamhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>2021-04-27 04:37:16 +0300
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2021-04-29 16:30:59 +0300
commit8f08cf3330da0582e7a51bd1b999c820147e19d1 (patch)
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parent2775de0b115a6ffab7882c45c755005ee0ac0122 (diff)
downloadlinux-8f08cf3330da0582e7a51bd1b999c820147e19d1.tar.xz
perf report: Make --skip-empty as default
so that the compact output is shown by default. Also add 'report.skip-empty' config option to override the default. Users can also use --no-skip-empty command line option to change the behavior anytime. Committer testing: $ perf report --stat Aggregated stats: TOTAL events: 19 COMM events: 2 EXIT events: 1 SAMPLE events: 8 MMAP2 events: 4 FINISHED_ROUND events: 1 THREAD_MAP events: 1 CPU_MAP events: 1 TIME_CONV events: 1 cycles:u stats: SAMPLE events: 8 $ perf config report.skip-empty=false $ perf report --stat Aggregated stats: TOTAL events: 19 MMAP events: 0 LOST events: 0 COMM events: 2 EXIT events: 1 THROTTLE events: 0 UNTHROTTLE events: 0 FORK events: 0 READ events: 0 SAMPLE events: 8 MMAP2 events: 4 AUX events: 0 ITRACE_START events: 0 LOST_SAMPLES events: 0 SWITCH events: 0 SWITCH_CPU_WIDE events: 0 NAMESPACES events: 0 KSYMBOL events: 0 BPF_EVENT events: 0 CGROUP events: 0 TEXT_POKE events: 0 ATTR events: 0 EVENT_TYPE events: 0 TRACING_DATA events: 0 BUILD_ID events: 0 FINISHED_ROUND events: 1 ID_INDEX events: 0 AUXTRACE_INFO events: 0 AUXTRACE events: 0 AUXTRACE_ERROR events: 0 THREAD_MAP events: 1 CPU_MAP events: 1 STAT_CONFIG events: 0 STAT events: 0 STAT_ROUND events: 0 EVENT_UPDATE events: 0 TIME_CONV events: 1 FEATURE events: 0 COMPRESSED events: 0 cycles:u stats: SAMPLE events: 8 $ perf config report.skip-empty report.skip-empty=false $ Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210427013717.1651674-6-namhyung@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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-rw-r--r--tools/perf/Documentation/perf-config.txt5
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diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-config.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-config.txt
index 154a1ced72b2..b0872c801866 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-config.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-config.txt
@@ -123,6 +123,7 @@ Given a $HOME/.perfconfig like this:
queue-size = 0
children = true
group = true
+ skip-empty = true
[llvm]
dump-obj = true
@@ -531,6 +532,10 @@ report.*::
0.07% 0.00% noploop ld-2.15.so [.] strcmp
0.03% 0.00% noploop [kernel.kallsyms] [k] timerqueue_del
+ report.skip-empty::
+ This option can change default stat behavior with empty results.
+ If it's set true, 'perf report --stat' will not show 0 stats.
+
top.*::
top.children::
Same as 'report.children'. So if it is enabled, the output of 'top'