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perf report: Update documention of --percent-limit option

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>
Namhyung Kim 9 years ago
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@@ -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.