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-rw-r--r--tools/perf/Documentation/Makefile2
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/Documentation/perf-script.txt8
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/Documentation/perf.data-file-format.txt2
3 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/Makefile b/tools/perf/Documentation/Makefile
index 6d148a40551c..adc5a7e44b98 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/Makefile
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/Makefile
@@ -242,7 +242,7 @@ $(OUTPUT)doc.dep : $(wildcard *.txt) build-docdep.perl
$(PERL_PATH) ./build-docdep.perl >$@+ $(QUIET_STDERR) && \
mv $@+ $@
--include $(OUPTUT)doc.dep
+-include $(OUTPUT)doc.dep
_cmds_txt = cmds-ancillaryinterrogators.txt \
cmds-ancillarymanipulators.txt \
diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-script.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-script.txt
index d4e2e18a5881..caaab28f8400 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-script.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-script.txt
@@ -228,11 +228,11 @@ OPTIONS
With the metric option perf script can compute metrics for
sampling periods, similar to perf stat. This requires
- specifying a group with multiple metrics with the :S option
+ specifying a group with multiple events defining metrics with the :S option
for perf record. perf will sample on the first event, and
- compute metrics for all the events in the group. Please note
+ print computed metrics for all the events in the group. Please note
that the metric computed is averaged over the whole sampling
- period, not just for the sample point.
+ period (since the last sample), not just for the sample point.
For sample events it's possible to display misc field with -F +misc option,
following letters are displayed for each bit:
@@ -384,7 +384,7 @@ include::itrace.txt[]
perf script --time 0%-10%,30%-40%
--max-blocks::
- Set the maximum number of program blocks to print with brstackasm for
+ Set the maximum number of program blocks to print with brstackinsn for
each sample.
--reltime::
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,