1. 28 12月, 2009 1 次提交
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      perf record: Introduce a symtab cache · 4cf40131
      Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 提交于
      Now a cache will be created in a ~/.debug debuginfo like
      hierarchy, so that at the end of a 'perf record' session all the
      binaries (with build-ids) involved get collected and indexed by
      their build-ids, so that perf report can find them.
      
      This is interesting when developing software where you want to
      do a 'perf diff' with the previous build and opens avenues for
      lots more interesting tools, like a 'perf diff --graph' that
      takes more than two binaries into account.
      
      Tunables for collecting just the symtabs can be added if one
      doesn't want to have the full binary, but having the full binary
      allows things like 'perf rerecord' or other tools that can
      re-run the tests by having access to the exact binary in some
      perf.data file, so it may well be interesting to keep the full
      binary there.
      
      Space consumption is minimised by trying to use hard links, a
      'perf cache' tool to manage the space used, a la ccache is
      required to purge older entries.
      
      With this in place it will be possible also to introduce new
      commands, 'perf archive' and 'perf restore' (or some more
      suitable and future proof names) to create a cpio/tar file with
      the perf data and the files in the cache that _had_ perf hits of
      interest.
      
      There are more aspects to polish, like finding the right vmlinux
      file to cache, etc, but this is enough for a first step.
      Signed-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
      Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
      Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
      Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
      Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      LKML-Reference: <1261957026-15580-10-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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