[PATCH v1 2/2] perf stat: Document --metric-no-threshold and threshold colors

Ian Rogers
2023-05-04T20:15:57Z

Document the threshold behavior for -M/--metrics.

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
---
tools/perf/Documentation/perf-stat.txt | 15 +++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)

diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-stat.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-stat.txt
index 29bdcfa93f04..ff71399db738 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-stat.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-stat.txt
@@ -353,6 +353,15 @@ small group that need not have multiplexing is lowered. This option
forbids the event merging logic from sharing events between groups and
may be used to increase accuracy in this case.

+--metric-no-threshold::
+Metric thresholds may increase the number of events necessary to
+compute whether a metric has exceeded its threshold expression. This
+may not be desirable, for example, as the events can introduce
+multiplexing. This option disables the adding of threshold expression
+events for a metric. However, if there are sufficient events to
+compute the threshold then the threshold is still computed and used to
+color the metric's computed value.
+
--quiet::
Don't print output, warnings or messages. This is useful with perf stat
record below to only write data to the perf.data file.
@@ -389,6 +398,12 @@ For a group all metrics from the group are added.
The events from the metrics are automatically measured.
See perf list output for the possible metrics and metricgroups.

+ When threshold information is available for a metric, the
+ color red is used to signify a metric has exceeded a threshold
+ while green shows it is hasn't. The default color means that
+ no threshold information was available or the threshold
+ couldn't be computed.
+
-A::
--no-aggr::
Do not aggregate counts across all monitored CPUs.
--
2.40.1.521.gf1e218fcd8-goog