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authorJiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>2018-06-07 00:15:06 +0200
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2018-06-07 20:53:36 +0200
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parentperf tools: Fix error index for pmu event parser (diff)
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perf stat: Add --interval-clear option
Adding --interval-clear option to clear the screen before next interval. Committer testing: # perf stat -I 1000 --interval-clear And, as expected, it behaves almost like: # watch -n 0 perf stat -a sleep 1 Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org> Cc: Milian Wolff <milian.wolff@kdab.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180606221513.11302-4-jolsa@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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@@ -178,6 +178,9 @@ Print count deltas for fixed number of times.
This option should be used together with "-I" option.
example: 'perf stat -I 1000 --interval-count 2 -e cycles -a'
+--interval-clear::
+Clear the screen before next interval.
+
--timeout msecs::
Stop the 'perf stat' session and print count deltas after N milliseconds (minimum: 10 ms).
This option is not supported with the "-I" option.