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authorAdrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>2019-06-04 16:00:13 +0300
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2019-06-10 16:20:12 -0300
commit0ccc69ba0af46e3371c8cefb506aaf9f0e4f554c (patch)
treea4b7430e145318c62403525d32c1f23e4b442b72
parentb16bfeb3db1b50273e95f539953c337be759500d (diff)
perf time-utils: Fix --time documentation
Correct some punctuation and spelling and correct the format to show that the time resolution is nanoseconds not microseconds. Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Jin Yao <yao.jin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190604130017.31207-16-adrian.hunter@intel.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/Documentation/perf-diff.txt6
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt6
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/Documentation/perf-script.txt6
3 files changed, 9 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-diff.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-diff.txt
index da7809b15cc9..5732f69580ab 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-diff.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-diff.txt
@@ -142,9 +142,9 @@ OPTIONS
perf diff --time 0%-10%,30%-40%
It also supports analyzing samples within a given time window
- <start>,<stop>. Times have the format seconds.microseconds. If 'start'
- is not given (i.e., time string is ',x.y') then analysis starts at
- the beginning of the file. If stop time is not given (i.e, time
+ <start>,<stop>. Times have the format seconds.nanoseconds. If 'start'
+ is not given (i.e. time string is ',x.y') then analysis starts at
+ the beginning of the file. If stop time is not given (i.e. time
string is 'x.y,') then analysis goes to the end of the file. Time string is
'a1.b1,c1.d1:a2.b2,c2.d2'. Use ':' to separate timestamps for different
perf.data files.
diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt
index f441baa794ce..3de029f6881d 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt
@@ -412,12 +412,12 @@ OPTIONS
--time::
Only analyze samples within given time window: <start>,<stop>. Times
- have the format seconds.microseconds. If start is not given (i.e., time
+ have the format seconds.nanoseconds. If start is not given (i.e. time
string is ',x.y') then analysis starts at the beginning of the file. If
- stop time is not given (i.e, time string is 'x.y,') then analysis goes
+ stop time is not given (i.e. time string is 'x.y,') then analysis goes
to end of file.
- Also support time percent with multiple time range. Time string is
+ Also support time percent with multiple time ranges. Time string is
'a%/n,b%/m,...' or 'a%-b%,c%-%d,...'.
For example:
diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-script.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-script.txt
index c59fd52e9e91..878349cce968 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-script.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-script.txt
@@ -361,12 +361,12 @@ include::itrace.txt[]
--time::
Only analyze samples within given time window: <start>,<stop>. Times
- have the format seconds.microseconds. If start is not given (i.e., time
+ have the format seconds.nanoseconds. If start is not given (i.e. time
string is ',x.y') then analysis starts at the beginning of the file. If
- stop time is not given (i.e, time string is 'x.y,') then analysis goes
+ stop time is not given (i.e. time string is 'x.y,') then analysis goes
to end of file.
- Also support time percent with multipe time range. Time string is
+ Also support time percent with multiple time ranges. Time string is
'a%/n,b%/m,...' or 'a%-b%,c%-%d,...'.
For example: