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

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Mon Mar 07 2016 - 05:42:18 EST


From: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx>

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@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
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.
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