From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] perf_event_open.2: Document PERF_EVENT_IOC_PAUSE_OUTPUT Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2016 12:00:14 +0200 Message-ID: References: <1477049893-143199-1-git-send-email-wangnan0@huawei.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Vince Weaver , Wang Nan Cc: mtk.manpages@gmail.com, pi3orama@163.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-man@vger.kernel.org, lizefan@huawei.com List-Id: linux-man@vger.kernel.org On 10/21/2016 11:16 PM, Vince Weaver wrote: > On Fri, 21 Oct 2016, Wang Nan wrote: > > >> -.SS Using prctl(2) >> +.SS Using prctl > > why this change? I suspect a diff against a slight stale version of the page, since I added the '(2)' just a few days ago. Wang Nan, please do pull the latest version of the page :-). >> +.BR PERF_EVENT_IOC_PAUSE_OUTPUT " (since Linux 4.7)" >> +.\" commit 86e7972f690c1017fd086cdfe53d8524e68c661c >> +This allows pausing and resuming the event's ring-buffer. A >> +paused ring-buffer does not prevent samples generation, but simply >> +discards them. The discarded samples are considered lost, causes >> +.BR PERF_RECORD_LOST >> +to be generated when possible. > > I don't know if it's worth mentioning that the reason to add this is to > allow reading the ring-buffer without having to worry about data being > overwritten. Wang Nan, what do you you thing. Should this be added? > There are a few odd wording choices (mostly plural nouns) but otherwise > looks fine to me. > > Reviewed-by: Vince Weaver Wang Nan, I'll send a few wording corrections. Could you please include Vince's reviewed by tag on your next revision? Thanks, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/