[tip:perfcounters/core] perf stat: Update help text

tip-bot for Ingo Molnar
2009-06-04T15:41:16Z

Commit-ID: 20c84e959ec11b1803d2b2832eef703d5fbe7f7b
Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/20c84e959ec11b1803d2b2832eef703d5fbe7f7b
Author: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
AuthorDate: Thu, 4 Jun 2009 16:33:00 +0200
Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
CommitDate: Thu, 4 Jun 2009 16:33:00 +0200

perf stat: Update help text

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

---
.../perf_counter/Documentation/perf-stat.txt | 30 ++++++++++++-------
1 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/perf_counter/Documentation/perf-stat.txt b/Documentation/perf_counter/Documentation/perf-stat.txt
index a67d0e3..a340e7b 100644
--- a/Documentation/perf_counter/Documentation/perf-stat.txt
+++ b/Documentation/perf_counter/Documentation/perf-stat.txt
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ OPTIONS
<command>...::
Any command you can specify in a shell.

+
-e::
--event=::
0:0: cpu-cycles
@@ -45,6 +46,13 @@ OPTIONS
1:4: migrations
rNNN: raw PMU events (eventsel+umask)

+-i::
+--inherit::
+ child tasks inherit counters
+-p::
+--pid=<pid>::
+ stat events on existing pid
+
-a::
system-wide collection

@@ -54,20 +62,20 @@ OPTIONS
EXAMPLES
--------

-$ perf stat sleep 1
+$ perf stat -- make -j

- Performance counter stats for 'sleep':
+ Performance counter stats for 'make -j':

- 0.678356 task clock ticks (msecs)
- 7 context switches (events)
- 4 CPU migrations (events)
- 232 pagefaults (events)
- 1810403 CPU cycles (events)
- 946759 instructions (events)
- 18952 cache references (events)
- 4885 cache misses (events)
+ 8117.370256 task clock ticks # 11.281 CPU utilization factor
+ 678 context switches # 0.000 M/sec
+ 133 CPU migrations # 0.000 M/sec
+ 235724 pagefaults # 0.029 M/sec
+ 24821162526 CPU cycles # 3057.784 M/sec
+ 18687303457 instructions # 2302.138 M/sec
+ 172158895 cache references # 21.209 M/sec
+ 27075259 cache misses # 3.335 M/sec

- Wall-clock time elapsed: 1001.252894 msecs
+ Wall-clock time elapsed: 719.554352 msecs

SEE ALSO
--------