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@@ -319,6 +319,15 @@ Default is to monitor all CPUS.
go straight to the histogram browser, just like 'perf top' with no events
explicitely specified does.
+--stitch-lbr::
+ Show callgraph with stitched LBRs, which may have more complete
+ callgraph. The option must be used with --call-graph lbr recording.
+ Disabled by default. In common cases with call stack overflows,
+ it can recreate better call stacks than the default lbr call stack
+ output. But this approach is not full proof. There can be cases
+ where it creates incorrect call stacks from incorrect matches.
+ The known limitations include exception handing such as
+ setjmp/longjmp will have calls/returns not match.
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