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| author | Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org> | 2020-08-07 13:32:41 -0600 |
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| committer | Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> | 2020-08-13 09:34:26 -0300 |
| commit | ce746d43a17493108c6754ce9450bd7317b93f7c (patch) | |
| tree | b9c1a8bc8e280fe7daebefe390f00ecb7ebc0be8 /tools/lib/perf/Documentation/libperf-counting.txt | |
| parent | 194cb6b50f57676130491341f321394bb16ee624 (diff) | |
libperf: Fix man page typos
Fix various typos and inconsistent capitalization of CPU in the libperf
man pages.
Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200807193241.3904545-1-robh@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/lib/perf/Documentation/libperf-counting.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | tools/lib/perf/Documentation/libperf-counting.txt | 14 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/tools/lib/perf/Documentation/libperf-counting.txt b/tools/lib/perf/Documentation/libperf-counting.txt index cae9757f49c1..8b75efcd67ce 100644 --- a/tools/lib/perf/Documentation/libperf-counting.txt +++ b/tools/lib/perf/Documentation/libperf-counting.txt @@ -7,13 +7,13 @@ libperf-counting - counting interface DESCRIPTION ----------- -The counting interface provides API to meassure and get count for specific perf events. +The counting interface provides API to measure and get count for specific perf events. The following test tries to explain count on `counting.c` example. It is by no means complete guide to counting, but shows libperf basic API for counting. -The `counting.c` comes with libbperf package and can be compiled and run like: +The `counting.c` comes with libperf package and can be compiled and run like: [source,bash] -- @@ -26,7 +26,8 @@ count 176242, enabled 176242, run 176242 It requires root access, because of the `PERF_COUNT_SW_CPU_CLOCK` event, which is available only for root. -The `counting.c` example monitors two events on the current process and displays their count, in a nutshel it: +The `counting.c` example monitors two events on the current process and displays +their count, in a nutshell it: * creates events * adds them to the event list @@ -152,7 +153,7 @@ Configure event list with the thread map and open events: -- Both events are created as disabled (note the `disabled = 1` assignment above), -so we need to enable the whole list explicitely (both events). +so we need to enable the whole list explicitly (both events). From this moment events are counting and we can do our workload. @@ -167,7 +168,8 @@ When we are done we disable the events list. 79 perf_evlist__disable(evlist); -- -Now we need to get the counts from events, following code iterates throught the events list and read counts: +Now we need to get the counts from events, following code iterates through the +events list and read counts: [source,c] -- @@ -178,7 +180,7 @@ Now we need to get the counts from events, following code iterates throught the 85 } -- -And finaly cleanup. +And finally cleanup. We close the whole events list (both events) and remove it together with the threads map: |