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Commit 1291927a authored by Kim Phillips's avatar Kim Phillips Committed by Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
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perf tools: Fix spelling mistakes 



Mostly in the documentation.

Signed-off-by: default avatarKim Phillips <kim.phillips@arm.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170503131350.cebeecd8bd0f2968417626ab@arm.com


[ Fix spelling of "parameter" in one of the spell-checked lines ]
Signed-off-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
parent 12c1c2fd

tools/perf/Documentation/perf-c2c.txt

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@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ REPORT OPTIONS 


-c::

--coalesce::

	Specify sorintg fields for single cacheline display.

	Specify sorting fields for single cacheline display.

	Following fields are available: tid,pid,iaddr,dso

	(see COALESCE)
@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ REPORT OPTIONS 


-d::

--display::

	Siwtch to HITM type (rmt, lcl) to display and sort on. Total HITMs as default.

	Switch to HITM type (rmt, lcl) to display and sort on. Total HITMs as default.



C2C RECORD

----------

tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt

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@@ -225,7 +225,7 @@ OPTIONS 
	the libunwind or libdw library) should be used instead.

	Using the "lbr" method doesn't require any compiler options. It

	will produce call graphs from the hardware LBR registers. The

	main limition is that it is only available on new Intel

	main limitation is that it is only available on new Intel

	platforms, such as Haswell. It can only get user call chain. It

	doesn't work with branch stack sampling at the same time.

tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt

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@@ -182,7 +182,7 @@ OPTIONS 
--parent=<regex>::

        A regex filter to identify parent. The parent is a caller of this

	function and searched through the callchain, thus it requires callchain

	information recorded. The pattern is in the exteneded regex format and

	information recorded. The pattern is in the extended regex format and

	defaults to "\^sys_|^do_page_fault", see '--sort parent'.



-x::
@@ -207,8 +207,8 @@ OPTIONS 
-g::

--call-graph=<print_type,threshold[,print_limit],order,sort_key[,branch],value>::

        Display call chains using type, min percent threshold, print limit,

	call order, sort key, optional branch and value.  Note that ordering of

	parameters is not fixed so any parement can be given in an arbitraty order.

	call order, sort key, optional branch and value.  Note that ordering

	is not fixed so any parameter can be given in an arbitrary order.

	One exception is the print_limit which should be preceded by threshold.



	print_type can be either:

tools/perf/Documentation/perf.data-file-format.txt

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@@ -270,7 +270,7 @@ When the event stream contains multiple events each event is identified 
by an ID. This can be either through the PERF_SAMPLE_ID or the

PERF_SAMPLE_IDENTIFIER header. The PERF_SAMPLE_IDENTIFIER header is

at a fixed offset from the event header, which allows reliable

parsing of the header. Relying on ID may be ambigious.

parsing of the header. Relying on ID may be ambiguous.

IDENTIFIER is only supported by newer Linux kernels.



Perf record specific events:
@@ -288,7 +288,7 @@ struct attr_event { 
	uint64_t id[];

};



	PERF_RECORD_HEADER_EVENT_TYPE		= 65, /* depreceated */

	PERF_RECORD_HEADER_EVENT_TYPE		= 65, /* deprecated */



#define MAX_EVENT_NAME 64

tools/perf/Documentation/tips.txt

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@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ For memory address profiling, try: perf mem record / perf mem report 
For tracepoint events, try: perf report -s trace_fields

To record callchains for each sample: perf record -g

To record every process run by a user: perf record -u <user>

Skip collecing build-id when recording: perf record -B

Skip collecting build-id when recording: perf record -B

To change sampling frequency to 100 Hz: perf record -F 100

See assembly instructions with percentage: perf annotate <symbol>

If you prefer Intel style assembly, try: perf annotate -M intel