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authorArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2016-04-14 23:29:08 +0200
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2016-04-15 00:46:58 +0200
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perf trace: Add --max-stack knob
Similar to the one in the other tools (report, script, top). Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Milian Wolff <milian.wolff@kdab.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-lh7kk5a5t3erwxw31ah0cgar@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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@@ -129,6 +129,15 @@ the thread executes on the designated CPUs. Default is to monitor all CPUs.
--event::
Trace other events, see 'perf list' for a complete list.
+--max-stack::
+ Set the stack depth limit when parsing the callchain, anything
+ beyond the specified depth will be ignored. Note that at this point
+ this is just about the presentation part, i.e. the kernel is still
+ not limiting, the overhead of callchains needs to be set via the
+ knobs in --call-graph dwarf.
+
+ Default: 127
+
--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.