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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>,
	"Liang, Kan" <kan.liang@intel.com>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] perf,tools: add time out to force stop endless mmap processing
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2015 17:44:22 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150616154422.GA19417@two.firstfloor.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150616151159.GF10374@kernel.org>

> Perhaps we should add a per-thread-proc-map-processing timeout parameter
> to the synthesizing routines instead of having that hardcoded, i.e.
> allow the tool to specify what is reasonable for it, but that wouldn't
> be strictly required for a first patch, emitting the dialog box above
> after synthesizing, if truncation happened, is.
> 
> Agreed?

If you make top emit a dialog box please make it appear only once and have a
timeout so that it doesn't block it forever

I personally would prefer of top just doing best effort and not giving
such warnings which the user cannot do anything about anyways.

-Andi

  reply	other threads:[~2015-06-16 15:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-06-10  7:46 [PATCH 1/1] perf,tools: add time out to force stop endless mmap processing kan.liang
2015-06-11 14:06 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2015-06-11 14:27   ` Liang, Kan
2015-06-11 15:37     ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2015-06-11 15:21   ` David Ahern
2015-06-11 18:47     ` Andi Kleen
2015-06-12  0:33       ` David Ahern
2015-06-12 14:42         ` Liang, Kan
2015-06-12 15:41           ` David Ahern
2015-06-12 17:05             ` Liang, Kan
2015-06-12 17:28               ` David Ahern
2015-06-12 18:19                 ` Liang, Kan
2015-06-12 19:29                   ` David Ahern
2015-06-12 19:45                     ` Andi Kleen
2015-06-12 20:39                     ` Liang, Kan
2015-06-12 20:52                       ` David Ahern
2015-06-12 22:41                         ` Liang, Kan
2015-06-13  4:07                           ` David Ahern
2015-06-13 14:59                             ` Liang, Kan
2015-06-13  4:24                       ` David Ahern
2015-06-13 15:06                         ` Liang, Kan
2015-06-16 15:11                         ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2015-06-16 15:44                           ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2015-06-16 15:57                           ` David Ahern
2015-06-16 16:42                           ` Liang, Kan
2015-06-16 18:08                             ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

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