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diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-stat.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-stat.txt new file mode 100644 index 00000000..918cc38e --- /dev/null +++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-stat.txt @@ -0,0 +1,117 @@ +perf-stat(1) +============ + +NAME +---- +perf-stat - Run a command and gather performance counter statistics + +SYNOPSIS +-------- +[verse] +'perf stat' [-e <EVENT> | --event=EVENT] [-a] <command> +'perf stat' [-e <EVENT> | --event=EVENT] [-a] -- <command> [<options>] + +DESCRIPTION +----------- +This command runs a command and gathers performance counter statistics +from it. + + +OPTIONS +------- +<command>...:: + Any command you can specify in a shell. + + +-e:: +--event=:: + Select the PMU event. Selection can be a symbolic event name + (use 'perf list' to list all events) or a raw PMU + event (eventsel+umask) in the form of rNNN where NNN is a + hexadecimal event descriptor. + +-i:: +--no-inherit:: + child tasks do not inherit counters +-p:: +--pid=<pid>:: + stat events on existing process id + +-t:: +--tid=<tid>:: + stat events on existing thread id + + +-a:: +--all-cpus:: + system-wide collection from all CPUs + +-c:: +--scale:: + scale/normalize counter values + +-r:: +--repeat=<n>:: + repeat command and print average + stddev (max: 100) + +-B:: +--big-num:: + print large numbers with thousands' separators according to locale + +-C:: +--cpu=:: +Count only on the list of CPUs provided. Multiple CPUs can be provided as a +comma-separated list with no space: 0,1. Ranges of CPUs are specified with -: 0-2. +In per-thread mode, this option is ignored. The -a option is still necessary +to activate system-wide monitoring. Default is to count on all CPUs. + +-A:: +--no-aggr:: +Do not aggregate counts across all monitored CPUs in system-wide mode (-a). +This option is only valid in system-wide mode. + +-n:: +--null:: + null run - don't start any counters + +-v:: +--verbose:: + be more verbose (show counter open errors, etc) + +-x SEP:: +--field-separator SEP:: +print counts using a CSV-style output to make it easy to import directly into +spreadsheets. Columns are separated by the string specified in SEP. + +-G name:: +--cgroup name:: +monitor only in the container (cgroup) called "name". This option is available only +in per-cpu mode. The cgroup filesystem must be mounted. All threads belonging to +container "name" are monitored when they run on the monitored CPUs. Multiple cgroups +can be provided. Each cgroup is applied to the corresponding event, i.e., first cgroup +to first event, second cgroup to second event and so on. It is possible to provide +an empty cgroup (monitor all the time) using, e.g., -G foo,,bar. Cgroups must have +corresponding events, i.e., they always refer to events defined earlier on the command +line. + +EXAMPLES +-------- + +$ perf stat -- make -j + + Performance counter stats for 'make -j': + + 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: 719.554352 msecs + +SEE ALSO +-------- +linkperf:perf-top[1], linkperf:perf-list[1] |