linux/tools/perf/Documentation
Namhyung Kim 7a29c087ff perf record: Add record.build-id config option
Post processing at 'perf record' takes a long time on big machines.

What it does is to find the build-id of binaries found in the event
stream, so that it can make sure, at 'report' time, that the symtabs (be
it ELF, kallsyms, etc) being used to resolve symbols are the ones
matching the binaries found at 'record' time.

Sometimes we just want to skip this processing of events at the end of
the session to get quicker results, making sure the binaries haven't
changed from 'record' to 'report' time.

Add a new config option to control this behavior.

The record.build-id config variable can have one of the following
values:

 - cache: post-process data and save/update the binaries into the
          build-id cache (in ~/.debug).  This is the default.
 - no-cache: post-process the data but not update the build-id cache.
             Same effect as using the -N option.
 - skip: skip post-processing and do not update the cache.
         Same effect as using the -B option.

Reported-and-Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Taeung Song <treeze.taeung@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1450144196-22957-1-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org
[ Added some more text to the documentation ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2015-12-15 11:46:16 -03:00
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android.txt perf tools: Add info about cross compiling for Android ARM 2012-10-31 12:17:49 -02:00
asciidoc.conf
Build.txt perf build: Add build documentation 2015-02-12 17:53:00 -03:00
callchain-overhead-calculation.txt perf tools: Document --children option in more detail 2015-04-29 10:38:06 -03:00
examples.txt perf record: Remove -f/--force option 2013-07-08 17:37:25 -03:00
intel-bts.txt perf tools: Add Intel BTS support 2015-08-21 11:34:10 -03:00
intel-pt.txt perf intel-pt: Add mispred-all config option to aid use with autofdo 2015-09-28 17:21:00 -03:00
itrace.txt perf auxtrace: Add option to synthesize branch stacks on samples 2015-09-28 16:53:44 -03:00
jit-interface.txt perf symbols: Add description of JIT interface 2012-08-13 14:55:02 -03:00
Makefile perf tools: Implement summary output for 'make install' 2013-10-11 12:18:11 -03:00
manpage-1.72.xsl
manpage-base.xsl
manpage-bold-literal.xsl
manpage-normal.xsl
manpage-suppress-sp.xsl
perf-annotate.txt perf annotate: Add basic support to event group view 2013-03-15 13:06:05 -03:00
perf-archive.txt perf archive: Remove duplicated 'runs' in man page 2013-12-09 15:21:45 -03:00
perf-bench.txt perf bench mem: Rename 'routine' to 'function' 2015-10-19 16:10:25 -03:00
perf-buildid-cache.txt perf buildid-cache: Add --purge FILE to remove all caches of FILE 2015-02-27 15:52:33 -03:00
perf-buildid-list.txt perf report: Accept fifos as input file 2011-12-23 17:01:03 -02:00
perf-config.txt perf config: Add initial man page 2015-11-23 18:31:25 -03:00
perf-data.txt perf data: Add perf data to CTF conversion support 2015-02-25 16:13:12 -03:00
perf-diff.txt perf diff: Add kallsyms option 2015-03-24 13:01:54 -03:00
perf-evlist.txt perf evlist: Add --group option 2013-01-31 13:07:49 -03:00
perf-help.txt
perf-inject.txt perf inject: Add --strip option to strip out non-synthesized events 2015-09-28 17:19:51 -03:00
perf-kmem.txt perf kmem: Add --live option for current allocation stat 2015-05-04 13:34:47 -03:00
perf-kvm.txt perf tools: Configurable per thread proc map processing time out 2015-06-19 18:27:13 -03:00
perf-list.txt perf tools: Introduce 'P' modifier to request max precision 2015-10-05 16:21:11 -03:00
perf-lock.txt perf lock: Account for lock average wait time 2013-10-09 11:24:01 -03:00
perf-mem.txt perf mem: Enable sampling loads and stores simultaneously 2015-01-21 13:24:31 -03:00
perf-probe.txt perf probe: Add --no-inlines option to avoid searching inline functions 2015-05-08 16:26:44 -03:00
perf-record.txt perf record: Add record.build-id config option 2015-12-15 11:46:16 -03:00
perf-report.txt perf report: Add callchain value option 2015-11-19 13:19:23 -03:00
perf-sched.txt perf report: Accept fifos as input file 2011-12-23 17:01:03 -02:00
perf-script-perl.txt perf Documentation: Fix typos in perf/Documentation 2014-10-15 17:39:02 -03:00
perf-script-python.txt perf Documentation: Fix typos in perf/Documentation 2014-10-15 17:39:02 -03:00
perf-script.txt perf script: Enable printing of branch stack 2015-10-29 17:16:20 -03:00
perf-stat.txt perf stat: Reduce min --interval-print to 10ms 2015-10-02 17:07:55 -03:00
perf-test.txt perf Documentation: Fix typos in perf/Documentation 2014-10-15 17:39:02 -03:00
perf-timechart.txt perf timechart: Add more options to IO mode 2014-07-10 00:22:54 +02:00
perf-top.txt perf top: Support call-graph display options also 2015-10-22 15:40:02 -03:00
perf-trace.txt perf trace: Fix documentation for -i 2015-11-05 12:47:51 -03:00
perf.txt perf tools: Handle -h and -v options 2015-10-05 16:36:18 -03:00
perfconfig.example perf annotate browser: Read perf config file for settings 2012-05-29 22:06:30 -03:00