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[PATCH 3/8] perf config: Document variables for 'report' section in man page

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Explain 'report' section's variables.

'percent-limit', 'queue-size' and 'children'.

Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Taeung Song <treeze.taeung@gmail.com>
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 tools/perf/Documentation/perf-config.txt | 34 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 34 insertions(+)

diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-config.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-config.txt
index 42310ae..72071ab 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-config.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-config.txt
@@ -369,6 +369,40 @@ call-graph.*::
 		This is a maximum number of lines of callchain printed for a single
 		histogram entry. Default is 0 which means no limitation.
 
+report.*::
+	report.percent-limit::
+		This one is mostly same as call-graph.threshold but works for
+		histogram entries. Entries have overhead lower than this percentage
+		will not be printed. Default is 0. If percent-limit is 10,
+		entries which have more than 10% of overhead will be printed only.
+
+	report.queue-size::
+		This option is to setup the maximum allocation size of internal
+		event queue for ordering events. Default is 0, meaning no limit.
+
+	report.children::
+		The children means that functions called from another function.
+		If this option is true, perf report cumulates callchains of children
+		and show (accumulated) total overhead as well as self overhead.
+		Please refer to the perf-report manual. The default is true.
+
+	report.group::
+		This option is to show event group information together.
+		If it is 'true', event group view can be enabled by default i.e.
+
+		# group: {ref-cycles,cycles}
+		# ========
+		#
+		# Samples: 7K of event 'anon group { ref-cycles, cycles }'
+		# Event count (approx.): 6876107743
+		#
+		#         Overhead  Command      Shared Object                      Symbol
+		# ................  .......  .................  ..........................
+		#
+		    99.84%  99.76%  noploop  noploop            [.] main
+		     0.07%   0.00%  noploop  ld-2.15.so         [.] strcmp
+		     0.03%   0.00%  noploop  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] timerqueue_del
+
 SEE ALSO
 --------
 linkperf:perf[1]
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  Re: [PATCH 0/8] perf config: Document config variables in man page Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> - 2016-02-04 16:00 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 0/8] perf config: Document config variables in man page Taeung Song <treeze.taeung@gmail.com> - 2016-02-05 11:50 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 0/8] perf config: Document config variables in man page Taeung Song <treeze.taeung@gmail.com> - 2016-02-05 12:10 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 0/8] perf config: Document config variables in man page Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> - 2016-02-05 14:10 +0100
        Re: [PATCH 0/8] perf config: Document config variables in man page Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <arnaldo.melo@gmail.com> - 2016-02-05 14:40 +0100
          Re: [PATCH 0/8] perf config: Document config variables in man page Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> - 2016-02-05 14:50 +0100
          Re: [PATCH 0/8] perf config: Document config variables in man page Taeung Song <treeze.taeung@gmail.com> - 2016-02-05 14:50 +0100

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