perf stat: Add --interval-clear option

Adding --interval-clear option to clear the screen before next interval.

Committer testing:

  # perf stat -I 1000 --interval-clear

And, as expected, it behaves almost like:

  # watch -n 0 perf stat -a sleep 1

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Cc: Milian Wolff <milian.wolff@kdab.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180606221513.11302-4-jolsa@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-stat.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-stat.txt
index 5dfe102fb5b5..b10a90b6a718 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-stat.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-stat.txt
@@ -178,6 +178,9 @@ Print count deltas for fixed number of times.
 This option should be used together with "-I" option.
 	example: 'perf stat -I 1000 --interval-count 2 -e cycles -a'
 
+--interval-clear::
+Clear the screen before next interval.
+
 --timeout msecs::
 Stop the 'perf stat' session and print count deltas after N milliseconds (minimum: 10 ms).
 This option is not supported with the "-I" option.