perf top: Add --max-stack option to limit callchain stack scan
authorWaiman Long <Waiman.Long@hp.com>
Fri, 18 Oct 2013 14:38:49 +0000 (10:38 -0400)
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Mon, 21 Oct 2013 20:36:25 +0000 (17:36 -0300)
commit5dbb6e81d85e55ee2b4cf523c1738e16f63e5400
tree334d7cd3884dde1e7f9d35e0be561f82edc92ccf
parent91e95617429cb272fd908b1928a1915b37b9655f
perf top: Add --max-stack option to limit callchain stack scan

When the callgraph function is enabled (-G), it may take a long time to
scan all the stack data and merge them accordingly.

This patch adds a new --max-stack option to perf-top to limit the depth
of callchain stack data to look at to reduce the time it takes for
perf-top to finish its processing. It reduces the amount of information
provided to the user in exchange for faster speed.

Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@hp.com>
Acked-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Aswin Chandramouleeswaran <aswin@hp.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Scott J Norton <scott.norton@hp.com>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1382107129-2010-5-git-send-email-Waiman.Long@hp.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
tools/perf/Documentation/perf-top.txt
tools/perf/builtin-top.c
tools/perf/util/top.h