linux-kernel - [PATCH] tools/perf: Document perf-stat's --detailed option

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Message-Id: <1457347294-32546-1-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de>
Date:	Mon,  7 Mar 2016 11:41:34 +0100
From:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>,
	Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@...e.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>, Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>,
	Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Subject: [PATCH] tools/perf: Document perf-stat's --detailed option

From: Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>

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.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@...e.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
---
 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 52ef7a9d50aa..14d9e8ffaff7 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-stat.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-stat.txt
@@ -69,6 +69,14 @@ report::
 --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.
-- 
2.3.5