perf stat: Add -n/--null option to run without counters
Allow a no-counters run. This can be useful to measure just elapsed wall-clock time - or to assess the raw overhead of perf stat itself, without running any counters. Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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@ -70,6 +70,7 @@ static int run_count = 1;
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static int inherit = 1;
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static int scale = 1;
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static int target_pid = -1;
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static int null_run = 0;
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static int fd[MAX_NR_CPUS][MAX_COUNTERS];
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@ -461,6 +462,8 @@ static const struct option options[] = {
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"be more verbose (show counter open errors, etc)"),
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OPT_INTEGER('r', "repeat", &run_count,
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"repeat command and print average + stddev (max: 100)"),
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OPT_BOOLEAN('n', "null", &null_run,
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"null run - dont start any counters"),
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OPT_END()
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};
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@ -476,7 +479,7 @@ int cmd_stat(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
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if (run_count <= 0 || run_count > MAX_RUN)
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usage_with_options(stat_usage, options);
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if (!nr_counters)
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if (!null_run && !nr_counters)
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nr_counters = 8;
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nr_cpus = sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN);
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