[<prev] [next>] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.21.1907251155500.22624@macbook-air>
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2019 11:57:43 -0400 (EDT)
From: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@...ne.edu>
To: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com>,
Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>,
Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>
Subject: [patch] perf.data documentation has wrong units for memory size
The perf.data-file-format documentation incorrectly says the
HEADER_TOTAL_MEM results are in bytes. The results are in kilobytes
(perf reads the value from /proc/meminfo)
Signed-off-by: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@...ne.edu>
diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf.data-file-format.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf.data-file-format.txt
index 5f54feb19977..d030c87ed9f5 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf.data-file-format.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf.data-file-format.txt
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ vendor,family,model,stepping. For example: GenuineIntel,6,69,1
HEADER_TOTAL_MEM = 10,
-An uint64_t with the total memory in bytes.
+An uint64_t with the total memory in kilobytes.
HEADER_CMDLINE = 11,
Powered by blists - more mailing lists