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authorMasami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>2010-04-21 15:56:40 -0400
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2010-04-26 15:35:20 -0300
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perf probe: Add --max-probes option
Add --max-probes option to change the maximum limit of findable probe points per event, since inlined function can be expanded into thousands of probe points. Default value is 128. Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Suggested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> LKML-Reference: <20100421195640.24664.62984.stgit@localhost6.localdomain6> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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@@ -62,6 +62,9 @@ OPTIONS
Dry run. With this option, --add and --del doesn't execute actual
adding and removal operations.
+--max-probes::
+ Set the maximum number of probe points for an event. Default is 128.
+
PROBE SYNTAX
------------
Probe points are defined by following syntax.