diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-buildid-cache.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-buildid-cache.txt
index 88bc3b5197461a099ad2a424f2a64f79abf388d7..5d1a9500277f32535fc8f95ffa12907a3720e6d5 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-buildid-cache.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-buildid-cache.txt
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ perf-buildid-cache - Manage build-id cache.
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
 [verse]
-'perf buildid-list <options>'
+'perf buildid-cache <options>'
 
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
@@ -30,4 +30,4 @@ OPTIONS
 
 SEE ALSO
 --------
-linkperf:perf-record[1], linkperf:perf-report[1]
+linkperf:perf-record[1], linkperf:perf-report[1], linkperf:perf-buildid-list[1]
diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-inject.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-inject.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..025630d43cd2331b898b94922be314d980bf3dd1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-inject.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+perf-inject(1)
+==============
+
+NAME
+----
+perf-inject - Filter to augment the events stream with additional information
+
+SYNOPSIS
+--------
+[verse]
+'perf inject <options>'
+
+DESCRIPTION
+-----------
+perf-inject reads a perf-record event stream and repipes it to stdout.  At any
+point the processing code can inject other events into the event stream - in
+this case build-ids (-b option) are read and injected as needed into the event
+stream.
+
+Build-ids are just the first user of perf-inject - potentially anything that
+needs userspace processing to augment the events stream with additional
+information could make use of this facility.
+
+OPTIONS
+-------
+-b::
+--build-ids=::
+        Inject build-ids into the output stream
+-v::
+--verbose::
+	Be more verbose.
+
+SEE ALSO
+--------
+linkperf:perf-record[1], linkperf:perf-report[1], linkperf:perf-archive[1]
diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-inject.c b/tools/perf/builtin-inject.c
index 59e981a889089195261e9503d40b65b1bc7b39bd..8e3e47b064cea7ddea4e98f0fb98202b35643632 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-inject.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-inject.c
@@ -204,7 +204,7 @@ static const char * const report_usage[] = {
 };
 
 static const struct option options[] = {
-	OPT_BOOLEAN('b', "inject build-ids", &inject_build_ids,
+	OPT_BOOLEAN('b', "build-ids", &inject_build_ids,
 		    "Inject build-ids into the output stream"),
 	OPT_INCR('v', "verbose", &verbose,
 		 "be more verbose (show build ids, etc)"),
diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
index ac989e9ba8fe067dd1e94a1e2d48ea42ef3b471f..0ff67d1c4752c930719f810e57c226d98f03facc 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
@@ -560,11 +560,12 @@ static int __cmd_record(int argc, const char **argv)
 			return err;
 	}
 
-	if (raw_samples) {
+	if (raw_samples && have_tracepoints(attrs, nr_counters)) {
 		perf_header__set_feat(&session->header, HEADER_TRACE_INFO);
 	} else {
 		for (i = 0; i < nr_counters; i++) {
-			if (attrs[i].sample_type & PERF_SAMPLE_RAW) {
+			if (attrs[i].sample_type & PERF_SAMPLE_RAW &&
+				attrs[i].type == PERF_TYPE_TRACEPOINT) {
 				perf_header__set_feat(&session->header, HEADER_TRACE_INFO);
 				break;
 			}
@@ -662,19 +663,25 @@ static int __cmd_record(int argc, const char **argv)
 			return err;
 		}
 
-		err = event__synthesize_tracing_data(output, attrs,
-						     nr_counters,
-						     process_synthesized_event,
-						     session);
-		/*
-		 * FIXME err <= 0 here actually means that there were no tracepoints
-		 * so its not really an error, just that we don't need to synthesize
-		 * anything.
-		 * We really have to return this more properly and also propagate
-		 * errors that now are calling die()
-		 */
-		if (err > 0)
+		if (have_tracepoints(attrs, nr_counters)) {
+			/*
+			 * FIXME err <= 0 here actually means that
+			 * there were no tracepoints so its not really
+			 * an error, just that we don't need to
+			 * synthesize anything.  We really have to
+			 * return this more properly and also
+			 * propagate errors that now are calling die()
+			 */
+			err = event__synthesize_tracing_data(output, attrs,
+							     nr_counters,
+							     process_synthesized_event,
+							     session);
+			if (err <= 0) {
+				pr_err("Couldn't record tracing data.\n");
+				return err;
+			}
 			advance_output(err);
+		}
 	}
 
 	machine = perf_session__find_host_machine(session);
diff --git a/tools/perf/command-list.txt b/tools/perf/command-list.txt
index 80a1a446ce35af4440bb3db2a53356e14f6e4881..949d77fc0b9718d812a8906883b7a89ef99c49f0 100644
--- a/tools/perf/command-list.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/command-list.txt
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ perf-bench			mainporcelain common
 perf-buildid-cache		mainporcelain common
 perf-buildid-list		mainporcelain common
 perf-diff			mainporcelain common
+perf-inject			mainporcelain common
 perf-list			mainporcelain common
 perf-sched			mainporcelain common
 perf-record			mainporcelain common
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/event.c b/tools/perf/util/event.c
index 1757b0ffeaa97a29812b4727d451305110c9ba3f..2477270c1d3fe372dcdb6cf840356a2e3846a8fd 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/event.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/event.c
@@ -713,6 +713,7 @@ int event__parse_sample(event_t *event, u64 type, struct sample_data *data)
 		array++;
 	}
 
+	data->id = -1ULL;
 	if (type & PERF_SAMPLE_ID) {
 		data->id = *array;
 		array++;
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/header.c b/tools/perf/util/header.c
index 79da0e50ef8ff1a7456eb4757c94c7629f168fbb..8847bec64c54119fc0e006dbd6350b231203dbd9 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/header.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/header.c
@@ -436,7 +436,6 @@ static int perf_header__adds_write(struct perf_header *self, int fd)
 		trace_sec->size = lseek(fd, 0, SEEK_CUR) - trace_sec->offset;
 	}
 
-
 	if (perf_header__has_feat(self, HEADER_BUILD_ID)) {
 		struct perf_file_section *buildid_sec;
 
@@ -923,6 +922,14 @@ perf_header__find_attr(u64 id, struct perf_header *header)
 {
 	int i;
 
+	/*
+	 * We set id to -1 if the data file doesn't contain sample
+	 * ids. Check for this and avoid walking through the entire
+	 * list of ids which may be large.
+	 */
+	if (id == -1ULL)
+		return NULL;
+
 	for (i = 0; i < header->attrs; i++) {
 		struct perf_header_attr *attr = header->attr[i];
 		int j;
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/parse-events.h b/tools/perf/util/parse-events.h
index b8c1f64bc9351ac7f889340c20eb7755614f5227..fc4ab3fe877a22d191450a6bc4c75118cf71901d 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/parse-events.h
+++ b/tools/perf/util/parse-events.h
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ struct tracepoint_path {
 };
 
 extern struct tracepoint_path *tracepoint_id_to_path(u64 config);
+extern bool have_tracepoints(struct perf_event_attr *pattrs, int nb_events);
 
 extern int			nr_counters;
 
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/trace-event-info.c b/tools/perf/util/trace-event-info.c
index 30cd9b57595301ed3793f84f96b6ce6b279c8a40..0a1fb9d4f3b60b75edd8b00071ec9ef1062e8cea 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/trace-event-info.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/trace-event-info.c
@@ -487,6 +487,11 @@ get_tracepoints_path(struct perf_event_attr *pattrs, int nb_events)
 	return nr_tracepoints > 0 ? path.next : NULL;
 }
 
+bool have_tracepoints(struct perf_event_attr *pattrs, int nb_events)
+{
+	return get_tracepoints_path(pattrs, nb_events) ? true : false;
+}
+
 int read_tracing_data(int fd, struct perf_event_attr *pattrs, int nb_events)
 {
 	char buf[BUFSIZ];