Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Thu, 1 Oct 2015 00:10:58 -0700 | From | tip-bot for Adrian Hunter <> | Subject | [tip:perf/core] perf report: Amend documentation about max_stack and synthesized callchains |
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Commit-ID: 40862a7b793945c7080d1566ca3dc6249f3c6354 Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/40862a7b793945c7080d1566ca3dc6249f3c6354 Author: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> AuthorDate: Tue, 29 Sep 2015 11:52:37 +0300 Committer: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> CommitDate: Wed, 30 Sep 2015 18:34:26 -0300
perf report: Amend documentation about max_stack and synthesized callchains
The --max_stack option was added as an optimization to reduce processing time, so people specifying --max-stack might get a increased processing time if combined with synthesized callchains, but otherwise no real harm.
A warning about setting both --max_stack and the synthesized callchains max depth seems like overkill. Amend the documentation.
Reported-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/560A5155.4060105@intel.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> --- tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt index b941d5e..ce49903 100644 --- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt +++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt @@ -205,6 +205,8 @@ OPTIONS beyond the specified depth will be ignored. This is a trade-off between information loss and faster processing especially for workloads that can have a very long callchain stack. + Note that when using the --itrace option the synthesized callchain size + will override this value if the synthesized callchain size is bigger. Default: 127
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