From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael Kerrisk Subject: Re: perf_event_open() -- fix a few typos Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2013 08:48:30 +0200 Message-ID: <51E4ECBE.5030600@gmail.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-man-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Vince Weaver Cc: Michael Kerrisk , linux-man-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-man@vger.kernel.org On 07/08/13 21:49, Vince Weaver wrote: > > I sent this earlier but it might have gotten lost because it was inside of > a longer discussion thread. > > This fixes some typos that have crept into the perf_event_open() manpage. I forgo to say that I applied this a few days back. Thanks, Vince. Cheers, Michael > Signed-off-by: Vince Weaver > > diff --git a/man2/perf_event_open.2 b/man2/perf_event_open.2 > index 504e801..b64ad90 100644 > --- a/man2/perf_event_open.2 > +++ b/man2/perf_event_open.2 > @@ -1588,7 +1588,7 @@ is the amount of data actually dumped (can be less than > .I weight > If > .B PERF_SAMPLE_WEIGHT > -is enabled, then a 64 bit value provided by the hardwre > +is enabled, then a 64 bit value provided by the hardware > is recorded that indicates how costly the event was. > This allows expensive events to stand out more clearly > in profiles. > @@ -1837,7 +1837,7 @@ Using an argument of 0 is considered undefined behavior. > .TP > .B PERF_EVENT_IOC_RESET > Reset the event count specified by the > -file descriptor argumentto zero. > +file descriptor argument to zero. > This resets only the counts; there is no way to reset the > multiplexing > .I time_enabled > @@ -1852,7 +1852,7 @@ reset, even if the event specified is not the group leader. > > If the > .B PERF_IOC_FLAG_GROUP > -bit is not set, then the behavior is somwhat unexpected: > +bit is not set, then the behavior is somewhat unexpected: > when sent to a group leader only the leader is reset > (children are left alone); > when sent to a child all events in a group are reset. > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html