Re: [RFC] perf record: Disable debuginfod by default

[Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>]

On Fri, Dec 10, 2021 at 10:41:49AM -0800, Namhyung Kim wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 10, 2021 at 4:23 AM Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Dec 09, 2021 at 03:39:20PM -0800, Namhyung Kim wrote:
> > > Hi Jiri,
> > >
> > > On Thu, Dec 9, 2021 at 12:04 PM Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > hi,
> > > > after migrating to fedora 35 I found perf record hanging on exit
> > > > and it's because fedora 35 sets DEBUGINFOD_URLS that triggers
> > > > debuginfod query which might take long time to process.
> > > >
> > > > I discussed this briefly with Frank and I'm sending the change
> > > > to disable debuginfod by default in perf record.
> > > >
> > > > Frank had other idea we could discuss here to fork or just spawn
> > > > "/usr/bin/debuginfod-find ...." into background after perf record.
> > > >
> > > > Perhaps there are other ways as well, hence this is RFC ;-)
> > >
> > > I thought the debuginfod was for perf report, not record.
> > > Maybe I'm missing something but how about moving it to
> > > report?  We can talk to debuginfod after checking the local
> > > build-id cache and binary on the system.
> >
> > at the end of the perf record we populate buildid cache
> > with profiled binaries for the current perf.data
> >
> > **IF** there's DEBUGINFOD_URLS defined, that code will
> > also ask debuginfod for binaries it could not find on
> > the system
> 
> Yeah, I know what you're doing.  But I guess debuginfod
> contains binaries for the distro and they'd be available for
> a while.  Then I think we don't need to do it at perf record.

well there's also profiling of non system binaries, which you want
to cache, because you might want to check that profile later

so I think we should still do that in perf record, just to have
some control over debuginfod, which is executed as part of
build_id_cache__find_debug function

jirka