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| 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 |
| Message-ID | <qBdLK-6vD-61@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
| References | <qBdLH-6vD-5@gated-at.bofh.it> |
| Organization | linux.* mail to news gateway |
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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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