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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-12-15 04:24:08 -0500
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-12-15 09:26:18 -0500
commitd30531c67210f4c73d0f9661998ceeebb0a230ee (patch)
tree391db2aee86be1d54fe87ad12fc9f9c5312a4aa2 /tools/perf
parent0f624e7e5625f4c30c836b7a5decfe2553582391 (diff)
perf diff: Improve the help text
Fix the short line displayed by 'perf' and also fix some other details in the longer text. Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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-rw-r--r--tools/perf/Documentation/perf-diff.txt8
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-diff.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-diff.txt
index bd1ee55cef6a..b7c393bf9ec1 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-diff.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-diff.txt
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ perf-diff(1)
3 3
4NAME 4NAME
5---- 5----
6perf-diff - Read perf.data (created by perf record) and display the profile 6perf-diff - Read two perf.data files and display the differential profile
7 7
8SYNOPSIS 8SYNOPSIS
9-------- 9--------
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ SYNOPSIS
12 12
13DESCRIPTION 13DESCRIPTION
14----------- 14-----------
15This command displays the performance difference among two perf.data files 15This command displays the performance difference amongst two perf.data files
16captured via perf record. 16captured via perf record.
17 17
18If no parameters are passed it will assume perf.data.old and perf.data. 18If no parameters are passed it will assume perf.data.old and perf.data.
@@ -21,10 +21,10 @@ OPTIONS
21------- 21-------
22-p:: 22-p::
23--percentage:: 23--percentage::
24 Show percentages instead of raw counters 24 Show percentages instead of raw counts
25-v:: 25-v::
26--verbose:: 26--verbose::
27 Be verbose, for instance, show the raw counters in addition to the 27 Be verbose, for instance, show the raw counts in addition to the
28 diff. 28 diff.
29SEE ALSO 29SEE ALSO
30-------- 30--------