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* [patch] perf.data documentation has wrong units for memory size
@ 2019-07-25 15:57 Vince Weaver
  2019-07-27 17:15 ` Jiri Olsa
  2019-07-29 21:35 ` [tip:perf/urgent] perf tools: Fix perf.data documentation " tip-bot for Vince Weaver
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Vince Weaver @ 2019-07-25 15:57 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel
  Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo, Peter Zijlstra, Ingo Molnar,
	Alexander Shishkin, Jiri Olsa, Namhyung Kim


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>

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,
 

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