linux-kernel - [PATCH 14/16] perf config: Document 'buildid.dir' variable in man page

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Date:	Thu, 21 Jan 2016 13:00:47 -0300
From:	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Taeung Song <treeze.taeung@...il.com>,
	Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org>,
	Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>
Subject: [PATCH 14/16] perf config: Document 'buildid.dir' variable in man page

From: Taeung Song <treeze.taeung@...il.com>

Explain 'buildid.dir' variable.

Signed-off-by: Taeung Song <treeze.taeung@...il.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1452253193-30502-4-git-send-email-treeze.taeung@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.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 ccbdb64696a7..a095f0cabf5e 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-config.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-config.txt
@@ -154,6 +154,21 @@ tui.*, gtk.*::
 	will make the TUI be the default for the 'top' subcommand. Those will be
 	available if the required libs were detected at tool build time.
 
+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
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 linkperf:perf[1]
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