From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 09:24:08 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: perf diff: Improve the help text
X-Git-Tag: firefly_0821_release~9833^2~3628^2~29
X-Git-Url: http://demsky.eecs.uci.edu/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=d30531c67210f4c73d0f9661998ceeebb0a230ee;p=firefly-linux-kernel-4.4.55.git

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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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)
 
 NAME
 ----
-perf-diff - Read perf.data (created by perf record) and display the profile
+perf-diff - Read two perf.data files and display the differential profile
 
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ SYNOPSIS
 
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
-This command displays the performance difference among two perf.data files
+This command displays the performance difference amongst two perf.data files
 captured via perf record.
 
 If no parameters are passed it will assume perf.data.old and perf.data.
@@ -21,10 +21,10 @@ OPTIONS
 -------
 -p::
 --percentage::
-	Show percentages instead of raw counters
+	Show percentages instead of raw counts
 -v::
 --verbose::
-	Be verbose, for instance, show the raw counters in addition to the
+	Be verbose, for instance, show the raw counts in addition to the
 	diff.
 SEE ALSO
 --------