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[PATCH v12 03/22] perf config: Document 'buildid.dir' variable in man page

From Taeung Song <treeze.taeung@gmail.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject [PATCH v12 03/22] perf config: Document 'buildid.dir' variable in man page
Date 2015-12-02 12:30 +0100
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Explain 'buildid.dir' variable.

Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Taeung Song <treeze.taeung@gmail.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 417974c..e4817e0 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-config.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-config.txt
@@ -153,6 +153,21 @@ tui.*, gtk.*::
 	By setting value, TUI or GTK can be enabled or not. But it is needed
 	that perf detects the required library for them during build.
 
+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]
-- 
1.9.1

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[PATCH v12 01/22] perf config: Document variables for 'colors' section in man page Taeung Song <treeze.taeung@gmail.com> - 2015-12-02 12:30 +0100
  [PATCH v12 03/22] perf config: Document 'buildid.dir' variable in man page Taeung Song <treeze.taeung@gmail.com> - 2015-12-02 12:30 +0100
  [PATCH v12 04/22] perf config: Document variables for 'annotate' section in man page Taeung Song <treeze.taeung@gmail.com> - 2015-12-02 12:30 +0100
  [PATCH v12 08/22] perf config: Document variables for 'call-graph' section in man page Taeung Song <treeze.taeung@gmail.com> - 2015-12-02 12:40 +0100
  [PATCH v12 05/22] perf config: Document variables for 'help' section in man page Taeung Song <treeze.taeung@gmail.com> - 2015-12-02 12:40 +0100
  [PATCH v12 09/22] perf config: Document variables for 'report' section in man page Taeung Song <treeze.taeung@gmail.com> - 2015-12-02 12:40 +0100

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