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authorKan Liang <kan.liang@intel.com>2015-06-17 09:51:11 -0400
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2015-06-19 18:27:13 -0300
commit9d9cad763ca79dd3697e9f2d1df648e37496582b (patch)
treef59dd3c9d866c2fa8aa85b90c1eac83bf4f515a9 /tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt
parent930e6fcd2bcce9bcd9d4aa7e755678d33f3fe6f4 (diff)
perf tools: Configurable per thread proc map processing time out
The time out to limit the individual proc map processing was hard code to 500ms. This patch introduce a new option --proc-map-timeout to make the time limit configurable. Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@intel.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Ying Huang <ying.huang@intel.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1434549071-25611-2-git-send-email-kan.liang@intel.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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@@ -271,6 +271,11 @@ AUX area tracing event. Optionally the number of bytes to capture per
snapshot can be specified. In Snapshot Mode, trace data is captured only when
signal SIGUSR2 is received.
+--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.
+This option sets the time out limit. The default value is 500 ms.
+
SEE ALSO
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linkperf:perf-stat[1], linkperf:perf-list[1]