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authorVince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>2019-07-25 11:57:43 -0400
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2019-07-29 09:03:43 -0300
commit2e9a06dda10aea81a17c623f08534dac6735434a (patch)
tree18274e905e77d86db53bc3a42b6ab688533895b7 /tools
parent20f9781f491360e7459c589705a2e4b1f136bee9 (diff)
downloadlinux-2e9a06dda10aea81a17c623f08534dac6735434a.tar.gz
perf tools: Fix perf.data documentation 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@maine.edu>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.21.1907251155500.22624@macbook-air
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools')
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/Documentation/perf.data-file-format.txt2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
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,