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From: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: sampling and reading
Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2014 11:41:43 +0900
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Hi Arnav,

On Tue, 4 Nov 2014 20:27:08 +0000 (UTC), Arnav wrote:
> i am working on a project where i need to find program counters for every 100M 
> instructions.
>
> i have used the  following command to record the event
>
> perf record -e instructions -c 100000000 ./filename
>
> now, since counters are counted every 100M instructions, i read file using 
> 'perf report'. But i get results in some percentage form and not in numerical 
> numbers format.
>
> i wish to read the file and gather the perforamance counter statistics. 
> Plz suggest how to get the desired results.

How about using

  perf report --show-total-period

?

Thanks,
Namhyung