From 45de34bbe3e1b8f4c8bc8ecaf6c915b4b4c545f8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stephane Eranian Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2010 21:25:01 +0200 Subject: perf buildid: add perfconfig option to specify buildid cache dir MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit This patch adds the ability to specify an alternate directory to store the buildid cache (buildids, copy of binaries). By default, it is hardcoded to $HOME/.debug. This directory contains immutable data. The layout of the directory is such that no conflicts in filenames are possible. A modification in a file, yields a different buildid and thus a different location in the subdir hierarchy. You may want to put the buildid cache elsewhere because of disk space limitation or simply to share the cache between users. It is also useful for remote collect vs. local analysis of profiles. This patch adds a new config option to the perfconfig file. Under the tag 'buildid', there is a dir option. For instance, if you have: $ cat /etc/perfconfig [buildid] dir = /var/cache/perf-buildid All buildids and binaries are be saved in the directory specified. The perf record, buildid-list, buildid-cache, report, annotate, and archive commands will it to pull information out. The option can be set in the system-wide perfconfig file or in the $HOME/.perfconfig file. Cc: David S. Miller Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Stephane Eranian Cc: Tom Zanussi LKML-Reference: <4c055fb7.df0ce30a.5f0d.ffffae52@mx.google.com> Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo --- tools/perf/util/util.h | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) (limited to 'tools/perf/util/util.h') diff --git a/tools/perf/util/util.h b/tools/perf/util/util.h index 4e8b6b0c551c..de61441b6dd7 100644 --- a/tools/perf/util/util.h +++ b/tools/perf/util/util.h @@ -89,6 +89,7 @@ extern const char *graph_line; extern const char *graph_dotted_line; +extern char buildid_dir[]; /* On most systems would have given us this, but * not on some systems (e.g. GNU/Hurd). @@ -152,6 +153,7 @@ extern void warning(const char *err, ...) __attribute__((format (printf, 1, 2))) extern void set_die_routine(void (*routine)(const char *err, va_list params) NORETURN); extern int prefixcmp(const char *str, const char *prefix); +extern void set_buildid_dir(void); static inline const char *skip_prefix(const char *str, const char *prefix) { -- cgit v1.2.3