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| author | Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> | 2016-04-15 22:52:34 +0200 |
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| committer | Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> | 2016-04-15 22:52:34 +0200 |
| commit | f3e459d16a8493b617ccf2a940330279679e0291 (patch) | |
| tree | c6cc841dcb256d0ea77b0ab56b05fe0b344e4aab /tools/perf/Documentation | |
| parent | perf evlist: Expose perf_event_mlock_kb_in_pages() helper (diff) | |
| download | linux-f3e459d16a8493b617ccf2a940330279679e0291.tar.xz linux-f3e459d16a8493b617ccf2a940330279679e0291.zip | |
perf trace: Bump --mmap-pages when --call-graph is used by the root user
To reduce the chances we'll overflow the mmap buffer, manual fine tuning
trumps this.
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-wxygbxmp1v9mng1ea28wet02@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/perf/Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | tools/perf/Documentation/perf-trace.txt | 4 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-trace.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-trace.txt index 146c6db21cbf..c075c002eaa4 100644 --- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-trace.txt +++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-trace.txt @@ -123,6 +123,10 @@ the thread executes on the designated CPUs. Default is to monitor all CPUs. man pages for details. The ones that are most useful in 'perf trace' are 'dwarf' and 'lbr', where available, try: 'perf trace --call-graph dwarf'. + Using this will, for the root user, bump the value of --mmap-pages to 4 + times the maximum for non-root users, based on the kernel.perf_event_mlock_kb + sysctl. This is done only if the user doesn't specify a --mmap-pages value. + --kernel-syscall-graph:: Show the kernel callchains on the syscall exit path. |