[PATCH] tools/perf: Document perf-stat's --detailed option

* [PATCH] tools/perf: Document perf-stat's --detailed option
@ 2016-03-07 10:41 Borislav Petkov
  2016-03-07 14:38 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
  2016-03-08 10:32 ` [tip:perf/core] perf stat: Document " tip-bot for Borislav Petkov
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Borislav Petkov @ 2016-03-07 10:41 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
  Cc: LKML, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo, Davidlohr Bueso, Ingo Molnar,
	Jiri Olsa, Mel Gorman, Peter Zijlstra, Steven Rostedt

From: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>

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.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
---
 tools/perf/Documentation/perf-stat.txt | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-stat.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-stat.txt
index 52ef7a9d50aa..14d9e8ffaff7 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-stat.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-stat.txt
@@ -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.
-- 
2.3.5

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