readprofile.1: formatting

Signed-off-by: Peter Breitenlohner <peb@mppmu.mpg.de>

1 files changed, 18 insertions, 20 deletions

diff --git a/sys-utils/readprofile.1 b/sys-utils/readprofile.1
index 57f35b910..dc65053f0 100644
--- a/sys-utils/readprofile.1
+++ b/sys-utils/readprofile.1
@@ -4,9 +4,7 @@
 readprofile - a tool to read kernel profiling information
 .SH SYNOPSIS
 .B readprofile
-[
-.I options
-]
+.RI [ options ]
 
 .SH VERSION
 This manpage documents version 2.0 of the program.
@@ -16,7 +14,7 @@ This manpage documents version 2.0 of the program.
 .LP
 The
 .B readprofile
-command uses the 
+command uses the
 .B /proc/profile
 information to print ascii data on standard output.
 The output is
@@ -30,7 +28,7 @@ the procedure. The output is filled with blanks to ease readability.
 Available command line options are the following:
 
 .TP
-.RB -m " mapfile"
+.BI \-m " mapfile"
 Specify a mapfile, which by default is
 .B /usr/src/linux/System.map.
 You should specify the map file on cmdline if your current kernel isn't the
@@ -38,51 +36,51 @@ last one you compiled, or if you keep System.map elsewhere. If the name of
 the map file ends with `.gz' it is decompressed on the fly.
 
 .TP
-.RB -p " pro-file"
+.BI \-p " pro-file"
 Specify a different profiling buffer, which by default is
 .B /proc/profile.
 Using a different pro-file is useful if you want to `freeze' the
 kernel profiling at some time and read it later. The
 .B /proc/profile
 file can be copied using `cat' or `cp'. There is no more support for
-compressed profile buffers, like in 
+compressed profile buffers, like in
 .B readprofile-1.1,
 because the program needs to know the size of the buffer in advance.
 
 .TP
-.B -i
-Info. This makes 
+.B \-i
+Info. This makes
 .B readprofile
 only print the profiling step used by the kernel.
 The profiling step is the resolution of the profiling buffer, and
 is chosen during kernel configuration (through `make config'),
 or in the kernel's command line.
-If the 
-.B -t
+If the
+.B \-t
 (terse) switch is used together with
-.B -i
+.B \-i
 only the decimal number is printed.
 
 .TP
-.B -a
+.B \-a
 Print all symbols in the mapfile. By default the procedures with 0 reported
 ticks are not printed.
 
 .TP
-.B -b
+.B \-b
 Print individual histogram-bin counts.
 
 .TP
-.B -r
+.B \-r
 Reset the profiling buffer. This can only be invoked by root, because
 .B /proc/profile
 is readable by everybody but writable only by the superuser. However,
-you can make 
+you can make
 .B readprofile
 setuid 0, in order to reset the buffer without gaining privileges.
 
 .TP
-.RB -M " multiplier"
+.BI \-M " multiplier"
 On some architectures it is possible to alter the frequency at which
 the kernel delivers profiling interrupts to each CPU.  This option allows you to
 set the frequency, as a multiplier of the system clock frequency, HZ.
@@ -91,14 +89,14 @@ and sparc64-SMP (2.4 kernel).  This option also resets the profiling buffer,
 and requires superuser privileges.
 
 .TP
-.B -v
+.B \-v
 Verbose. The output is organized in four columns and filled with blanks.
 The first column is the RAM address of a kernel function, the second is
 the name of the function, the third is the number of clock ticks and the
 last is the normalized load.
 
 .TP
-.B -V
+.B \-V
 Version. This makes
 .B readprofile
 print its version number and exit.
@@ -140,7 +138,7 @@ Request profiling at 2kHz per CPU, and reset the profiling buffer
 .LP
 .B readprofile
 only works with an 1.3.x or newer kernel,
-because 
+because
 .B /proc/profile
 changed in the step from 1.2 to 1.3