From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933247AbcECAdP (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 May 2016 20:33:15 -0400 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:60290 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933245AbcECA0u (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 May 2016 20:26:50 -0400 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo , Borislav Petkov , Alexander Shishkin , David Ahern , Davidlohr Bueso , Jiri Olsa , Mel Gorman , Namhyung Kim , Peter Zijlstra , Peter Zijlstra , Steven Rostedt , Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar Subject: [PATCH 4.4 145/163] perf stat: Document --detailed option Date: Mon, 2 May 2016 17:12:53 -0700 Message-Id: <20160503000513.240432957@linuxfoundation.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.8.2 In-Reply-To: <20160503000508.556845508@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20160503000508.556845508@linuxfoundation.org> User-Agent: quilt/0.64 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 4.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Borislav Petkov commit f594bae08183fb6b57db55387794ece3e1edf6f6 upstream. 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 Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: David Ahern Cc: Davidlohr Bueso Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: Thomas Gleixner 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 Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- tools/perf/Documentation/perf-stat.txt | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) --- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-stat.txt +++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-stat.txt @@ -62,6 +62,14 @@ OPTIONS --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=:: repeat command and print average + stddev (max: 100). 0 means forever.