From 8c23a522388b34cd7bc8473987eda0c75eb37c0e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jonas Rabenstein Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2019 16:45:15 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] perf doc: Fix documentation of the Flags section in perf.data According to the current documentation the flags section is placed after the file header itself but the code assumes to find the flags section after the data section. This change updates the documentation to that assumption. Signed-off-by: Jonas Rabenstein Acked-by: Jiri Olsa Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Stephane Eranian Cc: Thomas Richter Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190219154515.3954-2-jonas.rabenstein@studium.uni-erlangen.de Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo --- tools/perf/Documentation/perf.data-file-format.txt | 9 ++++----- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf.data-file-format.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf.data-file-format.txt index 5f9a392..593ef49 100644 --- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf.data-file-format.txt +++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf.data-file-format.txt @@ -43,11 +43,10 @@ struct perf_file_section { Flags section: -The header is followed by different optional headers, described by the bits set -in flags. Only headers for which the bit is set are included. Each header -consists of a perf_file_section located after the initial header. -The respective perf_file_section points to the data of the additional -header and defines its size. +For each of the optional features a perf_file_section it placed after the data +section if the feature bit is set in the perf_header flags bitset. The +respective perf_file_section points to the data of the additional header and +defines its size. Some headers consist of strings, which are defined like this: -- 2.7.4