On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 06:26:49PM -0800, Andi Kleen wrote: > From: Andi Kleen <[email protected]> > > 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 <[email protected]> > --- > 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 52ef7a9..6629a8e 100644 > --- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-stat.txt > +++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-stat.txt > @@ -211,6 +211,25 @@ $ 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 > +
[jolsa@krava perf]$ sudo ./perf stat -e cycles,instructions -a -x, 202537075,,cycles,4062752065,100.00,,Ghz,4062752065,100.00 71798923,,instructions,4063098840,100.00,0.35,insn per cycle ^^^^^^^^ hum, isn't the first number the 'counter value' ? doc says it's 4th jirka
