[PATCH 3.19.y-ckt 168/170] perf stat: Document --detailed option

From: Kamal Mostafa
Date: Fri Apr 01 2016 - 20:58:06 EST


3.19.8-ckt18 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx>

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 <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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@xxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
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 29ee857..6f9fbb4 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-stat.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-stat.txt
@@ -50,6 +50,14 @@ 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=<n>::
repeat command and print average + stddev (max: 100). 0 means forever.
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