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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2015-10-19 08:04:25 (GMT)
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2015-10-19 19:07:11 (GMT)
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perf bench mem: Fix 'length' vs. 'size' naming confusion
So 'perf bench mem memcpy/memset' consistently uses 'len' and 'length' for buffer sizes - while it's really a memory buffer size. (strings have length.) Rename all affected variables. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Hitoshi Mitake <mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1445241870-24854-10-git-send-email-mingo@kernel.org [ Update perf-bench man page ] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-bench.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-bench.txt
index 17135ef..bbd27d8 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-bench.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-bench.txt
@@ -139,8 +139,8 @@ Suite for evaluating performance of simple memory copy in various ways.
Options of *memcpy*
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-l::
---length::
-Specify length of memory to copy (default: 1MB).
+--size::
+Specify size of memory to copy (default: 1MB).
Available units are B, KB, MB, GB and TB (case insensitive).
-r::
@@ -163,8 +163,8 @@ Suite for evaluating performance of simple memory set in various ways.
Options of *memset*
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-l::
---length::
-Specify length of memory to set (default: 1MB).
+--size::
+Specify size of memory to set (default: 1MB).
Available units are B, KB, MB, GB and TB (case insensitive).
-r::