On 01/21/2015 04:04 AM, Vince Weaver wrote: > > Remove an inaccurate paragraph about values in the attr.config > field. This information was never true in any released kernel; > it somehow snuck into the manpage because it is still described > this way in tools/perf/design.txt in the kernel source tree. Thanks, Vince. Applied. Cheers, Michael > Signed-off-by: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@xxxxxxxxx> > > diff --git a/man2/perf_event_open.2 b/man2/perf_event_open.2 > index cccb880..003a8b2 100644 > --- a/man2/perf_event_open.2 > +++ b/man2/perf_event_open.2 > @@ -352,12 +352,6 @@ fields are also taken into account in cases where 64 bits is not > enough to fully specify the event. > The encoding of these fields are event dependent. > > -The most significant bit (bit 63) of > -.I config > -signifies CPU-specific (raw) counter configuration data; > -if the most significant bit is unset, the next 7 bits are an event > -type and the rest of the bits are the event identifier. > - > There are various ways to set the > .I config > field that are dependent on the value of the previously > -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
