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authorArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2011-10-05 16:10:06 -0300
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2011-10-07 12:12:13 -0300
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perf report: Add option to show total period
Just like --show-nr-samples, to help in diagnosing problems in the tools. Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-1lr7ejdjfvy2uwy2wkmatcpq@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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@@ -137,6 +137,8 @@ OPTIONS
-M::
--disassembler-style=:: Set disassembler style for objdump.
+--show-total-period:: Show a column with the sum of periods.
+
SEE ALSO
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linkperf:perf-stat[1]