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SubjectRe: [patch] perf.data documentation has wrong units for memory size
On Thu, Jul 25, 2019 at 11:57:43AM -0400, Vince Weaver wrote:
>
> 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>

Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>

thanks,
jirka

>
> 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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