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authorAdrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>2015-09-29 11:52:37 +0300
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2015-10-01 00:34:26 +0300
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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>
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@@ -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