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Jaswinder Singh Rajput dee412066a perf stat: Fix command option / manpage
-l is not supported, it should be -S for scale.

Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
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Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-23 10:20:02 +02:00

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perf-stat(1)
============
NAME
----
perf-stat - Run a command and gather performance counter statistics
SYNOPSIS
--------
[verse]
'perf stat' [-e <EVENT> | --event=EVENT] [-S] [-a] <command>
'perf stat' [-e <EVENT> | --event=EVENT] [-S] [-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::
--inherit::
child tasks inherit counters
-p::
--pid=<pid>::
stat events on existing pid
-a::
system-wide collection
-S::
scale counter values
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]