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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/1] perf,tools: add time out to force stop endless mmap processing
> 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


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