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diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-stat.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-stat.txt index 52ef7a9d50aa..04f23b404bbc 100644 --- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-stat.txt +++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-stat.txt @@ -69,6 +69,14 @@ report:: --scale:: scale/normalize counter values +-d:: +--detailed:: + print more detailed statistics, can be specified up to 3 times + + -d: detailed events, L1 and LLC data cache + -d -d: more detailed events, dTLB and iTLB events + -d -d -d: very detailed events, adding prefetch events + -r:: --repeat=<n>:: repeat command and print average + stddev (max: 100). 0 means forever. @@ -139,6 +147,10 @@ Print count deltas every N milliseconds (minimum: 10ms) The overhead percentage could be high in some cases, for instance with small, sub 100ms intervals. Use with caution. example: 'perf stat -I 1000 -e cycles -a sleep 5' +--metric-only:: +Only print computed metrics. Print them in a single line. +Don't show any raw values. Not supported with --per-thread. + --per-socket:: Aggregate counts per processor socket for system-wide mode measurements. This is a useful mode to detect imbalance between sockets. To enable this mode, @@ -211,6 +223,29 @@ $ perf stat -- make -j Wall-clock time elapsed: 719.554352 msecs +CSV FORMAT +---------- + +With -x, perf stat is able to output a not-quite-CSV format output +Commas in the output are not put into "". To make it easy to parse +it is recommended to use a different character like -x \; + +The fields are in this order: + + - optional usec time stamp in fractions of second (with -I xxx) + - optional CPU, core, or socket identifier + - optional number of logical CPUs aggregated + - counter value + - unit of the counter value or empty + - event name + - run time of counter + - percentage of measurement time the counter was running + - optional variance if multiple values are collected with -r + - optional metric value + - optional unit of metric + +Additional metrics may be printed with all earlier fields being empty. + SEE ALSO -------- linkperf:perf-top[1], linkperf:perf-list[1] |