From: tip-bot for Taeung Song <tipbot@zytor.com>
To: linux-tip-commits@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, acme@redhat.com,
tglx@linutronix.de, treeze.taeung@gmail.com, hpa@zytor.com,
namhyung@kernel.org, jolsa@kernel.org, mingo@kernel.org
Subject: [tip:perf/core] perf config: Document 'buildid.dir' variable in man page
Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2016 02:09:50 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <tip-2733525b8c1a5f9b6e55338d836b835c9c698913@git.kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1452253193-30502-4-git-send-email-treeze.taeung@gmail.com>
Commit-ID: 2733525b8c1a5f9b6e55338d836b835c9c698913
Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/2733525b8c1a5f9b6e55338d836b835c9c698913
Author: Taeung Song <treeze.taeung@gmail.com>
AuthorDate: Fri, 8 Jan 2016 20:39:33 +0900
Committer: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
CommitDate: Tue, 26 Jan 2016 11:52:47 -0300
perf config: Document 'buildid.dir' variable in man page
Explain 'buildid.dir' variable.
Signed-off-by: Taeung Song <treeze.taeung@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1452253193-30502-4-git-send-email-treeze.taeung@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
---
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 ccbdb64..a095f0c 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]
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-02-03 10:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-01-08 11:39 [PATCH v13 00/22] perf config: Add functionalities into perf-config and document config info Taeung Song
2016-01-08 11:39 ` [PATCH v13 01/23] perf config: Document variables for 'colors' section in man page Taeung Song
2016-02-03 10:09 ` [tip:perf/core] " tip-bot for Taeung Song
2016-01-08 11:39 ` [PATCH v13 02/23] perf config: Document variables for 'tui' and 'gtk' sections " Taeung Song
2016-02-03 10:09 ` [tip:perf/core] perf config: Document variables for 'tui' and ' gtk' " tip-bot for Taeung Song
2016-01-08 11:39 ` [PATCH v13 03/23] perf config: Document 'buildid.dir' variable " Taeung Song
2016-02-03 10:09 ` tip-bot for Taeung Song [this message]
2016-01-08 11:39 ` [PATCH v13 04/23] perf config: Document variables for 'annotate' section " Taeung Song
2016-01-21 14:45 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2016-01-22 7:11 ` Taeung Song
2016-02-03 10:10 ` [tip:perf/core] " tip-bot for Taeung Song
2016-01-08 11:39 ` [PATCH v13 05/23] perf config: Document variables for 'help' " Taeung Song
2016-01-21 14:46 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2016-01-22 8:00 ` Taeung Song
2016-01-08 11:39 ` [PATCH v13 06/23] perf config: Document 'hist.percentage' variable " Taeung Song
2016-01-21 14:54 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2016-01-22 8:03 ` Taeung Song
2016-02-03 10:10 ` [tip:perf/core] " tip-bot for Taeung Song
2016-01-08 11:39 ` [PATCH v13 07/23] perf config: Document 'ui.show-headers' " Taeung Song
2016-01-08 11:39 ` [PATCH v13 08/23] perf config: Document variables for 'call-graph' section " Taeung Song
2016-01-08 11:39 ` [PATCH v13 09/23] perf config: Document variables for 'report' " Taeung Song
2016-01-08 11:39 ` [PATCH v13 10/23] perf config: Document 'top.children' variable " Taeung Song
2016-01-08 11:39 ` [PATCH v13 11/23] perf config: Document 'man.viewer' " Taeung Song
2016-01-08 11:39 ` [PATCH v13 12/23] perf config: Document 'pager.<subcommand>' variables " Taeung Song
2016-01-08 11:39 ` [PATCH v13 13/23] perf config: Document 'kmem.default' variable " Taeung Song
2016-01-08 11:39 ` [PATCH v13 14/23] perf config: Document 'record.build-id' " Taeung Song
2016-01-08 11:39 ` [PATCH v13 15/23] perf config: Add '--system' and '--user' options to select which config file is used Taeung Song
2016-01-08 11:39 ` [PATCH v13 16/23] perf config: Collect configs to handle config variables Taeung Song
2016-01-08 11:39 ` [PATCH v13 17/23] perf config: Add 'list-all' option to perf-config Taeung Song
2016-01-08 11:39 ` [PATCH v13 18/23] perf config: Add a option 'skel' " Taeung Song
2016-01-08 11:39 ` [PATCH v13 19/23] perf config: Add --verbose option for showing config description Taeung Song
2016-01-08 11:39 ` [PATCH v13 20/23] perf config: Add 'get' functionality Taeung Song
2016-01-08 11:39 ` [PATCH v13 21/23] perf config: Add 'set' feature Taeung Song
2016-01-08 11:39 ` [PATCH v13 22/23] perf config: normalize a value depending on default type of it Taeung Song
2016-01-08 11:39 ` [PATCH v13 23/23] perf config: Add a option 'remove' to perf-config Taeung Song
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