[PATCH v2 3/3] Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: fix incorrect option syntax in perf example

From: SJ Park

Date: Mon Nov 02 2026 - 12:20:59 EST


From: "Adrian Huang (Lenovo)" <adrianhuang0701@xxxxxxxxx>

The kill command in the DAMON documentation uses an incorrect
option syntax in the perf example.

Use kill -9 instead of kill 9 to correctly send SIGKILL to
the perf process.

Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Shuah Khan <skhan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Huang (Lenovo) <adrianhuang0701@xxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: SJ Park <sj@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: SJ Park <sj@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage.rst | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage.rst
index 3d43954c7046c..bd687d89ea4c0 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage.rst
@@ -749,7 +749,7 @@ show results using tracepoint supporting tools like ``perf``. For example::
# echo on > kdamonds/0/state
# perf record -e damon:damon_aggregated &
# sleep 5
- # kill 9 $(pidof perf)
+ # kill -9 $(pidof perf)
# echo off > kdamonds/0/state
# perf script
kdamond.0 46568 [027] 79357.842179: damon:damon_aggregated: target_id=0 nr_regions=11 122509119488-135708762112: 0 864
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