linux/tools
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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arch tools include: Add basic atomic.h implementation from the kernel sources 2015-05-08 16:11:05 -03:00
build perf build: Remove unnecessary line in Makefile.feature 2015-12-14 12:16:15 -03:00
cgroup
firewire
hv tools: hv: add a python script lsvmbus to list VMBus devices 2015-08-05 11:44:29 -07:00
iio iio: generic_buffer: be helpful about enabling channels 2015-08-16 10:51:26 +01:00
include tools: Clone the kernel's strtobool function 2015-11-18 17:51:02 -03:00
laptop/freefall Move freefall program from Documentation/ to tools/ 2015-06-08 16:42:07 -06:00
lguest tools/lguest: Clean up include dir 2015-08-26 06:12:35 +02:00
lib tools lib bpf: Fetch map names from correct strtab 2015-12-11 08:53:04 -03:00
net tools/net: Use include/uapi with __EXPORTED_HEADERS__ 2015-11-15 17:24:33 -05:00
nfsd
perf perf record: Add record.build-id config option 2015-12-15 11:46:16 -03:00
power Merge branch 'pm-tools' 2015-11-16 22:57:02 +01:00
scripts
testing nfit: Adjust for different _FIT and NFIT headers 2015-11-30 14:51:46 -08:00
thermal/tmon tools/thermal: tmon: use pkg-config also for CFLAGS 2015-10-10 11:32:31 +08:00
time
usb usb: patches for v4.4 merge window 2015-10-22 17:19:33 -07:00
virtio tools/virtio: fix byteswap logic 2015-12-07 17:28:10 +02:00
vm tools/vm/page-types.c: support KPF_IDLE 2015-11-20 16:17:32 -08:00
Makefile tools: Fix selftests_install Makefile rule 2015-11-18 17:46:29 -03:00