diff --git a/man2/perf_event_open.2 b/man2/perf_event_open.2
index 34b939d0f..b76d11d70 100644
--- a/man2/perf_event_open.2
+++ b/man2/perf_event_open.2
@@ -149,14 +149,17 @@ then
 .BR execve (2).
 .TP
 .BR PERF_FLAG_FD_NO_GROUP
-.\" FIXME . The following sentence is unclear
-This flag allows creating an event as part of an event group but
-having no group leader.
-It is unclear why this is useful.
-.\" FIXME . So, why is it useful?
+This flag tells the event to ignore the
+.IR group_fd
+parameter except for the purpose of setting up output redirection
+using the
+.B PERF_FLAG_FD_OUTPUT
+flag.
 .TP
-.BR PERF_FLAG_FD_OUTPUT
-This flag reroutes the output from an event to the group leader.
+.BR PERF_FLAG_FD_OUTPUT " (broken since Linux 2.6.35)."
+This flag re-routes the event's sampled output to instead
+be included in the mmap buffer of the event specified by
+.IR group_fd .
 .TP
 .BR PERF_FLAG_PID_CGROUP " (since Linux 2.6.39)."
 This flag activates per-container system-wide monitoring.