From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757555AbbIUXvJ (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Sep 2015 19:51:09 -0400 Received: from mga09.intel.com ([134.134.136.24]:17171 "EHLO mga09.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757450AbbIUXuK (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Sep 2015 19:50:10 -0400 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.17,570,1437462000"; d="scan'208";a="809991251" From: Andi Kleen To: acme@kernel.org Cc: jolsa@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andi Kleen Subject: [PATCH 9/9] perf, tools, stat: Document CSV format in manpage Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2015 16:50:04 -0700 Message-Id: <1442879404-11675-10-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.4.3 In-Reply-To: <1442879404-11675-1-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org> References: <1442879404-11675-1-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Andi Kleen 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 --- 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 47469ab..0541714 100644 --- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-stat.txt +++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-stat.txt @@ -176,6 +176,25 @@ $ 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