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authorVince Weaver2019-07-25 17:57:43 +0200
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo2019-07-29 14:03:43 +0200
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parentperf header: Fix use of unitialized value warning (diff)
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perf tools: Fix perf.data documentation units for memory size
The perf.data-file-format documentation incorrectly says the HEADER_TOTAL_MEM results are in bytes. The results are in kilobytes (perf reads the value from /proc/meminfo) Signed-off-by: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.21.1907251155500.22624@macbook-air Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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-rw-r--r--tools/perf/Documentation/perf.data-file-format.txt2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf.data-file-format.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf.data-file-format.txt
index 5f54feb19977..d030c87ed9f5 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf.data-file-format.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf.data-file-format.txt
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ vendor,family,model,stepping. For example: GenuineIntel,6,69,1
HEADER_TOTAL_MEM = 10,
-An uint64_t with the total memory in bytes.
+An uint64_t with the total memory in kilobytes.
HEADER_CMDLINE = 11,