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| -rw-r--r-- | tools/perf/Documentation/perf-stat.txt | 5 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-stat.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-stat.txt index 08a1714494f8..3055aad38d46 100644 --- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-stat.txt +++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-stat.txt @@ -142,7 +142,10 @@ Do not aggregate counts across all monitored CPUs. -n:: --null:: - null run - don't start any counters +null run - Don't start any counters. + +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. -v:: --verbose:: |