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authorDavid Prévot <taffit@debian.org>2013-09-02 23:16:21 -0400
committerMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2013-09-04 08:12:56 +0200
commit699893d8f9f64375c73ce596806e785896a76a7e (patch)
tree9482c4d16a91009336f6db41b8a3afdde2320fc7
parent21a1f5bd507295c1a2f092fa7b92729fa94388c6 (diff)
perf_event_open.2: ffix
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
-rw-r--r--man2/perf_event_open.210
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/man2/perf_event_open.2 b/man2/perf_event_open.2
index c7f577db..f96df8c3 100644
--- a/man2/perf_event_open.2
+++ b/man2/perf_event_open.2
@@ -164,7 +164,7 @@ This flag re-routes the output from an event to the group leader.
This flag activates per-container system-wide monitoring.
A container
is an abstraction that isolates a set of resources for finer grain
-control (CPUs, memory, etc...).
+control (CPUs, memory, etc.).
In this mode, the event is measured
only if the thread running on the monitored CPU belongs to the designated
container (cgroup).
@@ -2010,15 +2010,17 @@ Each entry has an optional value (either hex or decimal).
If no value is specified than it is assumed to be a single-bit
field with a value of 1.
An example entry may look like this:
-.I event=0x2,inv,ldlat=3
+.IR event=0x2,inv,ldlat=3 .
.TP
.I /sys/bus/event_source/devices/*/uevent
This file is the standard kernel device interface
for injecting hotplug events.
.TP
.IR /sys/bus/event_source/devices/*/cpumask " (Since Linux 3.7)"
-The cpumask file contains a comma-separated list of integers that
-indicate a representative cpu number for each socket (package)
+The
+.I cpumask
+file contains a comma-separated list of integers that
+indicate a representative CPU number for each socket (package)
on the motherboard.
This is needed when setting up uncore or northbridge events, as
those PMUs present socket-wide events.