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diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-stat.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-stat.txt index 14d9e8ffaff7..04f23b404bbc 100644 --- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-stat.txt +++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-stat.txt @@ -147,6 +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, @@ -219,6 +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] |