perf report: Update documention of --percent-limit option
authorNamhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Wed, 3 Feb 2016 14:11:21 +0000 (23:11 +0900)
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Wed, 3 Feb 2016 15:24:21 +0000 (12:24 -0300)
The --percent-limit option was changed to be applied to callchains as
well as to hist entries recently, but it missed to update the doc.

Reported-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1454508683-5735-2-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt

index 1cb8fac596b140b74d149cd25763e23230d0edb7..89cab84e92fdad5ed705e2c810d24ed45d329364 100644 (file)
@@ -351,7 +351,10 @@ OPTIONS
 
 --percent-limit::
        Do not show entries which have an overhead under that percent.
-       (Default: 0).
+       (Default: 0).  Note that this option also sets the percent limit (threshold)
+       of callchains.  However the default value of callchain threshold is
+       different than the default value of hist entries.  Please see the
+       --call-graph option for details.
 
 --percentage::
        Determine how to display the overhead percentage of filtered entries.