From: Andi Kleen <a...@linux.intel.com> With all the recently added fields in the perf stat CSV output we should finally document them in the man page. Do this here.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <a...@linux.intel.com> --- tools/perf/Documentation/perf-stat.txt | 19 +++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+) diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-stat.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-stat.txt index 4e074a6..079b141 100644 --- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-stat.txt +++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-stat.txt @@ -177,6 +177,25 @@ $ 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 "") + +The fields are in this order: + + - optional usec time stamp in fractions of second (with -I xxx) + - unit of the counter value or empty + - event name + - counter value + - run time of counter + - percentage of measurement time the counter was running + - 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] -- 2.4.3 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
