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diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-top.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-top.txt
index c1fdba26bf53..e534d709cc5a 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-top.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-top.txt
@@ -51,9 +51,6 @@ Default is to monitor all CPUS.
--count-filter=<count>::
Only display functions with more events than this.
---group::
- Put the counters into a counter group.
-
--group-sort-idx::
Sort the output by the event at the index n in group. If n is invalid,
sort by the first event. It can support multiple groups with different
@@ -313,10 +310,10 @@ use '-e e1 -e e2 -G foo,foo' or just use '-e e1 -e e2 -G foo'.
perf top -e cycles,probe:icmp_rcv --switch-on=probe:icmp_rcv
- Alternatively one can ask for --group and then two overhead columns
+ Alternatively one can ask for a group and then two overhead columns
will appear, the first for cycles and the second for the switch-on event.
- perf top --group -e cycles,probe:icmp_rcv --switch-on=probe:icmp_rcv
+ perf top -e '{cycles,probe:icmp_rcv}' --switch-on=probe:icmp_rcv
This may be interesting to measure a workload only after some initialization
phase is over, i.e. insert a perf probe at that point and use the above