From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751722AbdHaIGM (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Aug 2017 04:06:12 -0400 Received: from mx2.mailbox.org ([80.241.60.215]:51182 "EHLO mx2.mailbox.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751698AbdHaIGI (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Aug 2017 04:06:08 -0400 Authentication-Results: spamfilter02.heinlein-hosting.de (amavisd-new); dkim=pass (2048-bit key) reason="pass (just generated, assumed good)" header.d=mailbox.org From: Jack Henschel To: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Peter Zijlstra , Ingo Molnar , Alexander Shishkin , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jack Henschel Subject: [PATCH] perf tools: Fix syntax in documentation of intel-pt config option Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2017 10:05:35 +0200 Message-Id: <20170831080535.2157-1-jackdev@mailbox.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org As specified in tools/perf/Documentation/perf-config.txt, perf configuration items must be in 'key = value' format, otherwise the following error message occurs: $ perf record -e intel_pt//u -- ls bad config file line 2 in ~/.perfconfig $ cat .perfconfig [intel-pt] mispred-all Changing assigning a value to the key 'mispred-all' fixes the issue: $ perf record -e intel_pt//u -- ls [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ] [ perf record: Capured and wrote 0.031 MB perf.data] $ cat .perfconfig [intel-pt] mispred-all = true --- tools/perf/Documentation/intel-pt.txt | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/intel-pt.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/intel-pt.txt index 4b6cdbf8f935..a47d845b9b61 100644 --- a/tools/perf/Documentation/intel-pt.txt +++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/intel-pt.txt @@ -873,7 +873,7 @@ amended to take the number of elements as a parameter. $ cat ~/.perfconfig [intel-pt] - mispred-all + mispred-all = on $ perf record -e intel_pt//u ./sort 3000 Bubble sorting array of 3000 elements -- 2.14.1