Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | [PATCH 9/9] perf, tools, stat: Document CSV format in manpage | Date | Mon, 2 Nov 2015 17:50:28 -0800 |
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From: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
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 <ak@linux.intel.com> --- 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 4e074a6..079b141 100644 --- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-stat.txt +++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-stat.txt @@ -177,6 +177,25 @@ $ 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
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