linux-kernel - [PATCH] perf tools: Fix typos / broken sentences

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Message-Id: <20190628220900.13741-1-andi@firstfloor.org>
Date:   Fri, 28 Jun 2019 15:09:00 -0700
From:   Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To:     acme@...nel.org
Cc:     jolsa@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: [PATCH] perf tools: Fix typos / broken sentences

From: Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>

- Fix a typo in the man page
- Fix a tip that doesn't make any sense.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>
---
 tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt | 2 +-
 tools/perf/Documentation/tips.txt        | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt
index 8c4372819e11..987261d158d4 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ OPTIONS
 	- socket: processor socket number the task ran at the time of sample
 	- srcline: filename and line number executed at the time of sample.  The
 	DWARF debugging info must be provided.
-	- srcfile: file name of the source file of the same. Requires dwarf
+	- srcfile: file name of the source file of the samples. Requires dwarf
 	information.
 	- weight: Event specific weight, e.g. memory latency or transaction
 	abort cost. This is the global weight.
diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/tips.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/tips.txt
index 869965d629ce..825745a645c1 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/tips.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/tips.txt
@@ -38,6 +38,6 @@ To report cacheline events from previous recording: perf c2c report
 To browse sample contexts use perf report --sample 10 and select in context menu
 To separate samples by time use perf report --sort time,overhead,sym
 To set sample time separation other than 100ms with --sort time use --time-quantum
-Add -I to perf report to sample register values visible in perf report context.
+Add -I to perf record to sample register values, which will be visible in perf report sample context.
 To show IPC for sampling periods use perf record -e '{cycles,instructions}:S' and then browse context
 To show context switches in perf report sample context add --switch-events to perf record.
-- 
2.20.1