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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-06-02 17:37:05 -0400
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-06-02 17:37:05 -0400
commitbf9e187637ca3d85cee7407e3af93995868cc87c (patch)
treec2ea1b5fad7f75082efb93abb7fa447940b7cb69 /Documentation/perf_counter/builtin-stat.c
parent0a520c63e1625b92ef775da40192e1542910e7f6 (diff)
perf_counter tools: Make source code headers more coherent
The perf commands had different ways of describing themselves, introduce a coherent command-file-header format taken from the Git project. Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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1/* 1/*
2 * perf stat: /usr/bin/time -alike performance counter statistics utility 2 * builtin-stat.c
3 *
4 * Builtin stat command: Give a precise performance counters summary
5 * overview about any workload, CPU or specific PID.
6 *
7 * Sample output:
3 8
4 It summarizes the counter events of all tasks (and child tasks), 9 $ perf stat ~/hackbench 10
5 covering all CPUs that the command (or workload) executes on. 10 Time: 0.104
6 It only counts the per-task events of the workload started,
7 independent of how many other tasks run on those CPUs.
8 11
9 Sample output: 12 Performance counter stats for '/home/mingo/hackbench':
10 13
11 $ perf stat -e 1 -e 3 -e 5 ls -lR /usr/include/ >/dev/null 14 1255.538611 task clock ticks # 10.143 CPU utilization factor
15 54011 context switches # 0.043 M/sec
16 385 CPU migrations # 0.000 M/sec
17 17755 pagefaults # 0.014 M/sec
18 3808323185 CPU cycles # 3033.219 M/sec
19 1575111190 instructions # 1254.530 M/sec
20 17367895 cache references # 13.833 M/sec
21 7674421 cache misses # 6.112 M/sec
12 22
13 Performance counter stats for 'ls': 23 Wall-clock time elapsed: 123.786620 msecs
14 24
15 163516953 instructions
16 2295 cache-misses
17 2855182 branch-misses
18 * 25 *
19 * Copyright (C) 2008, Red Hat Inc, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> 26 * Copyright (C) 2008, Red Hat Inc, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
20 * 27 *