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| author | Michael Kerrisk | 2016-12-03 21:13:59 +0100 |
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| committer | Karel Zak | 2016-12-09 13:45:09 +0100 |
| commit | 46f057ed37e06d74df3e2d4471cab935f9671edf (patch) | |
| tree | 7f03098b2f4ec9100730a7fcd6620052346c9ce2 /sys-utils/readprofile.8 | |
| parent | docs: renice(1): Remove obsolete BUGS text (diff) | |
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docs: various pages: Format pathnames as italic (.I)
In the majority of pages, pathnames are formatted as Italic,
which is the norm. However, there are several cases where they
are formatted as bold. This patch fixes a number of those
exceptions.
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.man-pages@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'sys-utils/readprofile.8')
| -rw-r--r-- | sys-utils/readprofile.8 | 12 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/sys-utils/readprofile.8 b/sys-utils/readprofile.8 index c01e3ca69..59c930b3d 100644 --- a/sys-utils/readprofile.8 +++ b/sys-utils/readprofile.8 @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ This manpage documents version 2.0 of the program. The .B readprofile command uses the -.B /proc/profile +.I /proc/profile information to print ascii data on standard output. The output is organized in three columns: the first is the number of clock ticks, the second is the name of the C function in the kernel where those @@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ only the decimal number is printed. .TP \fB\-m\fR, \fB\-\-mapfile\fR \fImapfile\fR Specify a mapfile, which by default is -.BR /usr/src/linux/System.map . +.IR /usr/src/linux/System.map . You should specify the map file on cmdline if your current kernel isn't the 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 @@ -58,10 +58,10 @@ resets the profiling buffer, and requires superuser privileges. .TP \fB\-p\fR, \fB\-\-profile\fR \fIpro-file\fR Specify a different profiling buffer, which by default is -.B /proc/profile. +.IR /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 +.I /proc/profile file can be copied using `cat' or `cp'. There is no more support for compressed profile buffers, like in .B readprofile-1.1, @@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ because the program needs to know the size of the buffer in advance. \fB\-r\fR, \fB\-\-reset\fR Reset the profiling buffer. This can only be invoked by root, because -.B /proc/profile +.I /proc/profile is readable by everybody but writable only by the superuser. However, you can make .B readprofile @@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ 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 -.B /proc/profile +.I /proc/profile changed in the step from 1.2 to 1.3 .LP This program only works with ELF kernels. The change for a.out |