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perf_event_open.2: Remove innaccurate paragraph describing attr.config 

Remove an inaccurate paragraph about values in the attr.config
field.  This information was never true in any released kernel;
it somehow snuck into the manpage because it is still described
this way in tools/perf/design.txt in the kernel source tree.

Signed-off-by: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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Vince Weaver 2015-01-20 22:04:20 -05:00 committed by Michael Kerrisk
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@ -352,12 +352,6 @@ fields are also taken into account in cases where 64 bits is not
enough to fully specify the event.
The encoding of these fields are event dependent.
The most significant bit (bit 63) of
.I config
signifies CPU-specific (raw) counter configuration data;
if the most significant bit is unset, the next 7 bits are an event
type and the rest of the bits are the event identifier.
There are various ways to set the
.I config
field that are dependent on the value of the previously