linux/tools/perf/Documentation
Stephane Eranian a1ac1d3c08 perf record: Add option to avoid updating buildid cache
There are situations where there is enough information in the perf.data
to process the samples. Updating the buildid cache may add unecessary
overhead in terms of disk space and time (copying large elf images).

A persistent option to do this already exists via the perfconfig file,
simply do:

[buildid]
dir = /dev/null

This patch provides a way to suppress builid cache updates on a per-run
basis.  It addds a new option, -N, to perf record. Buildids are still
generated in the perf.data file.

Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <4c19ef89.93ecd80a.40dc.fffff8e9@mx.google.com>
Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2010-06-17 10:20:44 -03:00
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Makefile perf: Make the install relative to DESTDIR if specified 2010-03-11 14:08:11 +01:00
asciidoc.conf perf_counter tools: Move from Documentation/perf_counter/ to tools/perf/ 2009-06-06 20:33:43 +02:00
examples.txt perf: Rename perf-examples.txt to examples.txt 2009-08-17 10:43:42 +02:00
manpage-1.72.xsl perf_counter tools: Move from Documentation/perf_counter/ to tools/perf/ 2009-06-06 20:33:43 +02:00
manpage-base.xsl perf_counter tools: Move from Documentation/perf_counter/ to tools/perf/ 2009-06-06 20:33:43 +02:00
manpage-bold-literal.xsl perf_counter tools: Move from Documentation/perf_counter/ to tools/perf/ 2009-06-06 20:33:43 +02:00
manpage-normal.xsl perf_counter tools: Move from Documentation/perf_counter/ to tools/perf/ 2009-06-06 20:33:43 +02:00
manpage-suppress-sp.xsl perf_counter tools: Move from Documentation/perf_counter/ to tools/perf/ 2009-06-06 20:33:43 +02:00
perf-annotate.txt perf tools: Fixup minor doc formatting issues 2010-05-05 11:23:27 -03:00
perf-archive.txt perf archive: Add documentation 2010-01-20 08:54:58 +01:00
perf-bench.txt perf tools: Fixup minor doc formatting issues 2010-05-05 11:23:27 -03:00
perf-buildid-cache.txt perf inject: Add missing bits 2010-05-04 10:48:22 -03:00
perf-buildid-list.txt perf buildid-list: Always show the DSO name 2009-11-17 07:19:54 +01:00
perf-diff.txt perf tools: Fixup minor doc formatting issues 2010-05-05 11:23:27 -03:00
perf-help.txt perf_counter tools: Move from Documentation/perf_counter/ to tools/perf/ 2009-06-06 20:33:43 +02:00
perf-inject.txt perf inject: Add missing bits 2010-05-04 10:48:22 -03:00
perf-kmem.txt perf tools: Fixup minor doc formatting issues 2010-05-05 11:23:27 -03:00
perf-kvm.txt perf: Some perf-kvm documentation edits 2010-04-24 03:50:49 +02:00
perf-list.txt perf list: Improve the raw hw event descriptor documentation 2010-05-07 14:07:05 -03:00
perf-lock.txt perf lock: Fix and add misc documentally things 2010-02-27 17:05:22 +01:00
perf-probe.txt perf probe: Add --max-probes option 2010-04-26 15:35:20 -03:00
perf-record.txt perf record: Add option to avoid updating buildid cache 2010-06-17 10:20:44 -03:00
perf-report.txt perf diff: Use perf_session__fprintf_hists just like 'perf record' 2009-12-16 16:53:37 +01:00
perf-sched.txt perf: cleanup some Documentation 2010-04-08 11:34:26 -03:00
perf-stat.txt perf tools: Add the ability to specify list of cpus to monitor 2010-06-05 09:33:01 -03:00
perf-test.txt perf test: Initial regression testing command 2010-04-29 18:59:23 -03:00
perf-timechart.txt perf timechart: Add a process filter 2009-10-20 07:55:50 +02:00
perf-top.txt perf tools: Add the ability to specify list of cpus to monitor 2010-06-05 09:33:01 -03:00
perf-trace-perl.txt perf: Remove leftover useless options to record trace events from scripts 2010-04-30 19:55:00 +02:00
perf-trace-python.txt perf trace scripts: Fix typos in perf-trace-python.txt 2010-05-13 17:10:40 -03:00
perf-trace.txt perf tools: Fixup minor doc formatting issues 2010-05-05 11:23:27 -03:00
perf.txt perf: Fix few typos + cosmetics 2010-01-13 17:39:44 +01:00