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authorNamhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>2016-02-03 15:11:21 +0100
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2016-02-03 16:24:21 +0100
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perf report: Update documention of --percent-limit option
The --percent-limit option was changed to be applied to callchains as well as to hist entries recently, but it missed to update the doc. Reported-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1454508683-5735-2-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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@@ -351,7 +351,10 @@ OPTIONS
--percent-limit::
Do not show entries which have an overhead under that percent.
- (Default: 0).
+ (Default: 0). Note that this option also sets the percent limit (threshold)
+ of callchains. However the default value of callchain threshold is
+ different than the default value of hist entries. Please see the
+ --call-graph option for details.
--percentage::
Determine how to display the overhead percentage of filtered entries.