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From: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
To: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>,
	linux-man@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [patch] perf_event_open.2: PERF_RECORD_SWITCH support
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2016 11:14:33 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1610191111090.16261@macbook-air> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <15d30ad2-2937-febe-d6c9-b8dded4642d8@gmail.com>

On Wed, 19 Oct 2016, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:

> > diff --git a/man2/perf_event_open.2 b/man2/perf_event_open.2
> > index 68b99bb..04a0cf5 100644
> > +.B PERF_RECORD_SWITCH_CPU_WIDE
> > +records when sampling in cpu-wide mode.
> > +This functionality is in addition to existing tracepoint and
> > +software events for measuring context switches.
> > +The advantage of this method is that it will give full
> 
> s/give full/give a full/
> 
> ok?
> 
> > +information event with strict
> > +.I perf_event_paranoid
> > +settings.

What I meant to say was 

"it will give full information *even* with strict perf_event_paranoid 
settings"

Maybe saying something like "despite strict settings" would be better 
wording.

not sure how I missed that typo, apparently my fingers are used to typing 
"event" too much.

Vince

  reply	other threads:[~2016-10-19 15:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-10-18 17:22 Vince Weaver
2016-10-19  7:00 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2016-10-19 15:14   ` Vince Weaver [this message]
2016-10-20  5:49     ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)

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