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perf stat: Add -a as default target

Boris asked for default -a option in case we monitor only uncore events.

While implementing that I thought it might be actually useful to make it
overall default.

Running 'perf stat' will now collect system wide data.

Committer note:

Testing it:

# perf stat
^C
Performance counter stats for 'system wide':

3571.559178 cpu-clock (msec) # 4.000 CPUs utilized
3,346 context-switches # 0.937 K/sec
277 cpu-migrations # 0.078 K/sec
57,271 page-faults # 0.016 M/sec
4,535,633,835 cycles # 1.270 GHz
6,389,736,516 instructions # 1.41 insn per cycle
1,541,293,875 branches # 431.547 M/sec
14,526,396 branch-misses # 0.94% of all branches

0.892950118 seconds time elapsed

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Requested-and-Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170217170034.GB15389@krava
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

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Jiri Olsa and committed by
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
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tools/perf/Documentation/perf-stat.txt
··· 63 63 64 64 -a:: 65 65 --all-cpus:: 66 - system-wide collection from all CPUs 66 + system-wide collection from all CPUs (default if no target is specified) 67 67 68 68 -c:: 69 69 --scale::
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tools/perf/builtin-stat.c
··· 2445 2445 } else if (big_num_opt == 0) /* User passed --no-big-num */ 2446 2446 big_num = false; 2447 2447 2448 + /* Make system wide (-a) the default target. */ 2448 2449 if (!argc && target__none(&target)) 2449 - usage_with_options(stat_usage, stat_options); 2450 + target.system_wide = true; 2450 2451 2451 2452 if (run_count < 0) { 2452 2453 pr_err("Run count must be a positive number\n");