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From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2010 17:53:27 -0200
Subject: [PATCH] perf stat: Use --big-num format by default
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[acme@mica linux]$ perf stat ls > /dev/null

 Performance counter stats for 'ls':

           1.512532  task-clock-msecs         #      0.801 CPUs
                  2  context-switches         #      0.001 M/sec
                  0  CPU-migrations           #      0.000 M/sec
                241  page-faults              #      0.159 M/sec
          2,973,331  cycles                   #   1965.797 M/sec
          1,460,802  instructions             #      0.491 IPC
            314,642  branches                 #    208.023 M/sec
             18,475  branch-misses            #      5.872 %
      <not counted>  cache-references
      <not counted>  cache-misses

        0.001887676  seconds time elapsed

To get the previous behaviour just use --no-big-num:

[acme@mica linux]$ perf stat --no-big-num ls > /dev/null

 Performance counter stats for 'ls':

           1.468014  task-clock-msecs         #      0.795 CPUs
                  1  context-switches         #      0.001 M/sec
                  0  CPU-migrations           #      0.000 M/sec
                241  page-faults              #      0.164 M/sec
            2900254  cycles                   #   1975.631 M/sec
            1437991  instructions             #      0.496 IPC
             310905  branches                 #    211.786 M/sec
              17912  branch-misses            #      5.761 %
      <not counted>  cache-references
      <not counted>  cache-misses

        0.001845435  seconds time elapsed

[acme@mica linux]$

Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
---
 tools/perf/builtin-stat.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c b/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c
index 970a7f2a083d..acbf7ccd9d07 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ static pid_t			*all_tids			=  NULL;
 static int			thread_num			=  0;
 static pid_t			child_pid			= -1;
 static bool			null_run			=  false;
-static bool			big_num				=  false;
+static bool			big_num				=  true;
 static const char		*cpu_list;