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authorKan Liang <kan.liang@intel.com>2015-06-17 15:51:11 +0200
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2015-06-19 23:27:13 +0200
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perf tools: Configurable per thread proc map processing time out
The time out to limit the individual proc map processing was hard code to 500ms. This patch introduce a new option --proc-map-timeout to make the time limit configurable. Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@intel.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Ying Huang <ying.huang@intel.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1434549071-25611-2-git-send-email-kan.liang@intel.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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@@ -151,6 +151,12 @@ STAT LIVE OPTIONS
Show events other than HLT (x86 only) or Wait state (s390 only)
that take longer than duration usecs.
+--proc-map-timeout::
+ When processing pre-existing threads /proc/XXX/mmap, it may take
+ a long time, because the file may be huge. A time out is needed
+ in such cases.
+ This option sets the time out limit. The default value is 500 ms.
+
SEE ALSO
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linkperf:perf-top[1], linkperf:perf-record[1], linkperf:perf-report[1],