From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965484AbcAUQBu (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Jan 2016 11:01:50 -0500 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([198.137.202.9]:47424 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759881AbcAUQBq (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Jan 2016 11:01:46 -0500 From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo To: Ingo Molnar Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Taeung Song , Jiri Olsa , Namhyung Kim , Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Subject: [PATCH 14/16] perf config: Document 'buildid.dir' variable in man page Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2016 13:00:47 -0300 Message-Id: <1453392049-5825-15-git-send-email-acme@kernel.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.1.0 In-Reply-To: <1453392049-5825-1-git-send-email-acme@kernel.org> References: <1453392049-5825-1-git-send-email-acme@kernel.org> X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by bombadil.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Taeung Song Explain 'buildid.dir' variable. Signed-off-by: Taeung Song Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Namhyung Kim Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1452253193-30502-4-git-send-email-treeze.taeung@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo --- tools/perf/Documentation/perf-config.txt | 15 +++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+) diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-config.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-config.txt index ccbdb64696a7..a095f0cabf5e 100644 --- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-config.txt +++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-config.txt @@ -154,6 +154,21 @@ tui.*, gtk.*:: will make the TUI be the default for the 'top' subcommand. Those will be available if the required libs were detected at tool build time. +buildid.*:: + buildid.dir:: + Each executable and shared library in modern distributions comes with a + content based identifier that, if available, will be inserted in a + 'perf.data' file header to, at analysis time find what is needed to do + symbol resolution, code annotation, etc. + + The recording tools also stores a hard link or copy in a per-user + directory, $HOME/.debug/, of binaries, shared libraries, /proc/kallsyms + and /proc/kcore files to be used at analysis time. + + The buildid.dir variable can be used to either change this directory + cache location, or to disable it altogether. If you want to disable it, + set buildid.dir to /dev/null. The default is $HOME/.debug + SEE ALSO -------- linkperf:perf[1] -- 2.5.0