linux-kernel - [patch] perf.data documentation has wrong units for memory size

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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,