From 40862a7b793945c7080d1566ca3dc6249f3c6354 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Adrian Hunter Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2015 11:52:37 +0300 Subject: [PATCH] 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 Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter Cc: Jiri Olsa Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/560A5155.4060105@intel.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo --- tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt index b941d5e07e28..ce499035e6d8 100644 --- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt +++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt @@ -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 -- 2.11.0