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authorBorislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>2016-03-07 20:44:44 +0100
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2016-03-08 10:11:18 +0100
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perf stat: Document --detailed option
I'm surprised this remained undocumented since at least 2011. And it is actually a very useful switch, as Steve and I came to realize recently. Add the text from 2cba3ffb9a9d ("perf stat: Add -d -d and -d -d -d options to show more CPU events") which added the incrementing aspect to -d. Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Fixes: 2cba3ffb9a9d ("perf stat: Add -d -d and -d -d -d options to show more CPU events") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1457347294-32546-1-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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@@ -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.