linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL 0/2] perf tui fix and annotate improvement

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Message-ID: <20100528082206.GB24058@elte.hu>
Date:	Fri, 28 May 2010 10:22:06 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...radead.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Fr??d??ric Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Stephane Eranian <eranian@...gle.com>,
	Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL 0/2] perf tui fix and annotate improvement


* Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...radead.org> wrote:

> Hi Ingo,
> 
>         Please pull from:
> 
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux-2.6 perf
> 
> 	I still have to make it cache vmlinux files instead of always caching
> kallsyms, so that users can select it via .perfconfig the tradeof .debug/ disk
> space versus offline/precise (build-id verified) annotate ability for kernel
> symbols.
> 
> 	But one can use another seldom used perf command to workaround this
> situation, buildid-cache, by doing:
> 
> perf buildid-cache -r /path/to/vmlinux
> perf buildid-cache -a /path/to/vmlinux
> 
> 	The first one will read the build-id in /path/to/vmlinux, and remove
> the symlink from the cache, the second will add the vmlinux file to the cache
> and make the symlink to it, so that 'perf archive' will package the right
> vmlinux and then offline annotation should work as expected.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> - Arnaldo
> 
> Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo (2):
>   perf tui: Reset use_browser if stdout is not a tty
>   perf symbols: Add the build id cache to the vmlinux path
> 
>  tools/perf/builtin-annotate.c |    2 +-
>  tools/perf/builtin-top.c      |    2 +-
>  tools/perf/util/newt.c        |    1 +
>  tools/perf/util/symbol.c      |   27 +++++++++++++++++++++++----
>  tools/perf/util/symbol.h      |    2 +-
>  5 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

Pulled, thanks a lot Arnaldo!

	Ingo
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