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| -rw-r--r-- | tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt | 14 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | tools/perf/builtin-record.c | 13 |
2 files changed, 26 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt index 8d032f4..3a1a32f 100644 --- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt +++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt @@ -207,11 +207,23 @@ comma-separated list with no space: 0,1. Ranges of CPUs are specified with -: 0- In per-thread mode with inheritance mode on (default), samples are captured only when the thread executes on the designated CPUs. Default is to monitor all CPUs. +-B:: +--no-buildid:: +Do not save the build ids of binaries in the perf.data files. This skips +post processing after recording, which sometimes makes the final step in +the recording process to take a long time, as it needs to process all +events looking for mmap records. The downside is that it can misresolve +symbols if the workload binaries used when recording get locally rebuilt +or upgraded, because the only key available in this case is the +pathname. You can also set the "record.build-id" config variable to +'skip to have this behaviour permanently. + -N:: --no-buildid-cache:: Do not update the buildid cache. This saves some overhead in situations where the information in the perf.data file (which includes buildids) -is sufficient. +is sufficient. You can also set the "record.build-id" config variable to +'no-cache' to have the same effect. -G name,...:: --cgroup name,...:: diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c index 3ef3c79..a3b4930 100644 --- a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c +++ b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c @@ -837,6 +837,19 @@ int record_callchain_opt(const struct option *opt, static int perf_record_config(const char *var, const char *value, void *cb) { + struct record *rec = cb; + + if (!strcmp(var, "record.build-id")) { + if (!strcmp(value, "cache")) + rec->no_buildid_cache = false; + else if (!strcmp(value, "no-cache")) + rec->no_buildid_cache = true; + else if (!strcmp(value, "skip")) + rec->no_buildid = true; + else + return -1; + return 0; + } if (!strcmp(var, "record.call-graph")) var = "call-graph.record-mode"; /* fall-through */ |