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| author | Shawn Bohrer <shawn.bohrer@gmail.com> | 2010-12-01 04:57:19 +0300 |
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| committer | Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> | 2010-12-01 23:22:49 +0300 |
| commit | 8c207692fc8fa3ea1a5ff97ad698efb09a81975a (patch) | |
| tree | b3b6243cf35118c905425474a0fef14c31f166f3 /tools | |
| parent | f68d6bd451782b58c2b563dc86f0a81ba106c30c (diff) | |
| download | linux-8c207692fc8fa3ea1a5ff97ad698efb09a81975a.tar.xz | |
perf stat: Document missing options
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1291168642-11402-12-git-send-email-shawn.bohrer@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Shawn Bohrer <shawn.bohrer@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools')
| -rw-r--r-- | tools/perf/Documentation/perf-stat.txt | 34 |
1 files changed, 27 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-stat.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-stat.txt index c405bcad6ac7..c469ba56c076 100644 --- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-stat.txt +++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-stat.txt @@ -8,8 +8,8 @@ perf-stat - Run a command and gather performance counter statistics SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] -'perf stat' [-e <EVENT> | --event=EVENT] [-S] [-a] <command> -'perf stat' [-e <EVENT> | --event=EVENT] [-S] [-a] -- <command> [<options>] +'perf stat' [-e <EVENT> | --event=EVENT] [-a] <command> +'perf stat' [-e <EVENT> | --event=EVENT] [-a] -- <command> [<options>] DESCRIPTION ----------- @@ -35,21 +35,33 @@ OPTIONS child tasks do not inherit counters -p:: --pid=<pid>:: - stat events on existing pid + stat events on existing process id + +-t:: +--tid=<tid>:: + stat events on existing thread id + -a:: - system-wide collection +--all-cpus:: + system-wide collection from all CPUs -c:: - scale counter values +--scale:: + scale/normalize counter values + +-r:: +--repeat=<n>:: + repeat command and print average + stddev (max: 100) -B:: +--big-num:: print large numbers with thousands' separators according to locale -C:: --cpu=:: -Count only on the list of cpus provided. Multiple CPUs can be provided as a -comma-sperated list with no space: 0,1. Ranges of CPUs are specified with -: 0-2. +Count only on the list of CPUs provided. Multiple CPUs can be provided as a +comma-separated list with no space: 0,1. Ranges of CPUs are specified with -: 0-2. In per-thread mode, this option is ignored. The -a option is still necessary to activate system-wide monitoring. Default is to count on all CPUs. @@ -58,6 +70,14 @@ to activate system-wide monitoring. Default is to count on all CPUs. Do not aggregate counts across all monitored CPUs in system-wide mode (-a). This option is only valid in system-wide mode. +-n:: +--null:: + null run - don't start any counters + +-v:: +--verbose:: + be more verbose (show counter open errors, etc) + EXAMPLES -------- |