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Re: [RFC] perf record: missing buildid for callstack modules

From Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [RFC] perf record: missing buildid for callstack modules
Date 2016-01-19 16:30 +0100
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On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 11:56:40PM +0900, Namhyung Kim wrote:

> > But but ... why is #2 a problem with mtime? If we have an out of date record in 
> > the perf.data, then the perf.data is uninteresting in 99% of the usecases! It's 
> > out of date, most likely because the binary the developer is working on got 
> > rebuilt, or the system got upgraded - in both cases the developer does not care 
> > about the old records anymore...
> 
> We have 'perf diff' command which compares old and new performance
> results of a same program.  People can use it to see how much improved
> in the new version than the baseline.  In this case, the old binary
> should be found from the old perf.data.

Just means they'll have to use perf-archive or whatnot before that
works. Making the regular perf-record dead slow just so that a few more
complex workloads work doesn't make sense.

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Re: [RFC] perf record: missing buildid for callstack modules Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> - 2016-01-19 16:00 +0100
  Re: [RFC] perf record: missing buildid for callstack modules Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-01-19 16:30 +0100
    Re: [RFC] perf record: missing buildid for callstack modules Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> - 2016-01-19 16:50 +0100

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