The "stalled cycles per insn" is appended to "instructions" when the CPU has this hardware counter directly. We should always make it a separate line, which also aligns to the output when we hit the "if (total && avg)" branch.
Before: $ sudo perf stat --all-cpus --field-separator , --log-fd 1 -einstructions,cycles -- sleep 1 4565048704,,instructions,64114578096,100.00,1.34,insn per cycle,, 3396325133,,cycles,64146628546,100.00,, After: $ sudo ./tools/perf/perf stat --all-cpus --field-separator , --log-fd 1 -einstructions,cycles -- sleep 1 6721924,,instructions,24026790339,100.00,0.22,insn per cycle ,,,,,0.00,stalled cycles per insn 30939953,,cycles,24025512526,100.00,, Cc: Andi Kleen <a...@linux.intel.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jo...@kernel.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mi...@redhat.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <a...@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangc...@gmail.com> --- tools/perf/util/stat-shadow.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/tools/perf/util/stat-shadow.c b/tools/perf/util/stat-shadow.c index 83d8094be4fe..5c5e012e99c4 100644 --- a/tools/perf/util/stat-shadow.c +++ b/tools/perf/util/stat-shadow.c @@ -800,7 +800,8 @@ void perf_stat__print_shadow_stats(struct perf_stat_config *config, "stalled cycles per insn", ratio); } else if (have_frontend_stalled) { - print_metric(config, ctxp, NULL, NULL, + out->new_line(config, ctxp); + print_metric(config, ctxp, NULL, "%7.2f ", "stalled cycles per insn", 0); } } else if (perf_evsel__match(evsel, HARDWARE, HW_BRANCH_MISSES)) { -- 2.21.0