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.orgSigned-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

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.

tools/perf/builtin-stat.c

@@ -65,6 +65,7 @@
 #include "util/tool.h"
 #include "util/string2.h"
 #include "util/metricgroup.h"
+#include "util/top.h"
 #include "asm/bug.h"
 
 #include <linux/time64.h>
@@ -173,6 +174,7 @@ static struct cpu_map		*aggr_map;
 static aggr_get_id_t		aggr_get_id;
 static bool			append_file;
 static bool			interval_count;
+static bool			interval_clear;
 static const char		*output_name;
 static int			output_fd;
 static int			print_free_counters_hint;
@@ -1704,9 +1706,12 @@ static void print_interval(char *prefix, struct timespec *ts)
 	FILE *output = stat_config.output;
 	static int num_print_interval;
 
+	if (interval_clear)
+		puts(CONSOLE_CLEAR);
+
 	sprintf(prefix, "%6lu.%09lu%s", ts->tv_sec, ts->tv_nsec, csv_sep);
 
-	if (num_print_interval == 0 && !csv_output) {
+	if ((num_print_interval == 0 && !csv_output) || interval_clear) {
 		switch (stat_config.aggr_mode) {
 		case AGGR_SOCKET:
 			fprintf(output, "#           time socket cpus");
@@ -1738,7 +1743,7 @@ static void print_interval(char *prefix, struct timespec *ts)
 		}
 	}
 
-	if (num_print_interval == 0 && metric_only)
+	if ((num_print_interval == 0 && metric_only) || interval_clear)
 		print_metric_headers(" ", true);
 	if (++num_print_interval == 25)
 		num_print_interval = 0;
@@ -2057,6 +2062,8 @@ static const struct option stat_options[] = {
 		    "(overhead is possible for values <= 100ms)"),
 	OPT_INTEGER(0, "interval-count", &stat_config.times,
 		    "print counts for fixed number of times"),
+	OPT_BOOLEAN(0, "interval-clear", &interval_clear,
+		    "clear screen in between new interval"),
 	OPT_UINTEGER(0, "timeout", &stat_config.timeout,
 		    "stop workload and print counts after a timeout period in ms (>= 10ms)"),
 	OPT_SET_UINT(0, "per-socket", &stat_config.aggr_mode,