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 <jonas.rabenstein@studium.uni-erlangen.de>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Richter <tmricht@linux.ibm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190219154515.3954-2-jonas.rabenstein@studium.uni-erlangen.de
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf.data-file-format.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf.data-file-format.txt
index 5f9a3924830bf1ad5fdfeef28717c1ae9bd256b7..593ef49b273c12f0d7e6839887c04dd04eeee418 100644 (file)
--- 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: