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@@ -219,6 +219,29 @@ $ perf stat -- make -j
Wall-clock time elapsed: 719.554352 msecs
+CSV FORMAT
+----------
+
+With -x, perf stat is able to output a not-quite-CSV format output
+Commas in the output are not put into "". To make it easy to parse
+it is recommended to use a different character like -x \;
+
+The fields are in this order:
+
+ - optional usec time stamp in fractions of second (with -I xxx)
+ - optional CPU, core, or socket identifier
+ - optional number of logical CPUs aggregated
+ - counter value
+ - unit of the counter value or empty
+ - event name
+ - run time of counter
+ - percentage of measurement time the counter was running
+ - optional variance if multiple values are collected with -r
+ - optional metric value
+ - optional unit of metric
+
+Additional metrics may be printed with all earlier fields being empty.
+
SEE ALSO
--------
linkperf:perf-top[1], linkperf:perf-list[1]