Re: [PATCH 2/4] docs: admin-guide: fix stress-ng command examples

From: Shuah Khan

Date: Tue May 05 2026 - 14:31:12 EST


On 5/3/26 04:14, Cheng-Han Wu wrote:
The workload tracing guide includes stress-ng command examples with a
stray "command." word at the end. This makes the examples invalid if they
are copied and run directly.

Remove the stray word from the stress-ng example. Also use "--" in the
perf record example to clearly separate perf record options from the
workload command being recorded.

Signed-off-by: Cheng-Han Wu <hank20010209@xxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/admin-guide/workload-tracing.rst | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/workload-tracing.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/workload-tracing.rst
index 22cb05025ffc..43a3c8098654 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/workload-tracing.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/workload-tracing.rst
@@ -271,7 +271,7 @@ exercised:
The following command runs the stressor::
- stress-ng --netdev 1 -t 60 --metrics command.
+ stress-ng --netdev 1 -t 60 --metrics
We can use the perf record command to record the events and information
associated with a process. This command records the profiling data in the
@@ -281,7 +281,7 @@ Using the following commands you can record the events associated with the
netdev stressor, view the generated report perf.data and annotate the output
to view the statistics of each instruction of the program::
- perf record stress-ng --netdev 1 -t 60 --metrics command.
+ perf record -- stress-ng --netdev 1 -t 60 --metrics
perf report
perf annotate

Looks to good to me.

Reviewed-by: Shuah Khan <skhan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

thanks,
-- Shuah