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authorWang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>2016-04-20 18:59:52 +0000
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2016-04-28 09:58:59 -0300
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perf record: Disable buildid cache options by default in switch output mode
The cost of buildid cache processing is high: reading all events in output perf.data, opening each elf file to read buildids then copying them into ~/.debug directory. In switch output mode, these heavy works block perf from receiving perf events for too long. Enable no-buildid and no-buildid-cache by default if --switch-output is provided. Still allow user use --no-no-buildid to explicitly enable buildid in this case. Signed-off-by: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Zefan Li <lizefan@huawei.com> Cc: pi3orama@163.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1461178794-40467-6-git-send-email-wangnan0@huawei.com Signed-off-by: He Kuang <hekuang@huawei.com> [ Updated man page ] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/perf/builtin-record.c')
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/builtin-record.c30
1 files changed, 29 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
index 80b805b7f5c7..178b49ecd05f 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
@@ -1387,8 +1387,36 @@ int cmd_record(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix __maybe_unused)
"If some relocation was applied (e.g. kexec) symbols may be misresolved\n"
"even with a suitable vmlinux or kallsyms file.\n\n");
- if (rec->no_buildid_cache || rec->no_buildid)
+ if (rec->no_buildid_cache || rec->no_buildid) {
disable_buildid_cache();
+ } else if (rec->switch_output) {
+ /*
+ * In 'perf record --switch-output', disable buildid
+ * generation by default to reduce data file switching
+ * overhead. Still generate buildid if they are required
+ * explicitly using
+ *
+ * perf record --signal-trigger --no-no-buildid \
+ * --no-no-buildid-cache
+ *
+ * Following code equals to:
+ *
+ * if ((rec->no_buildid || !rec->no_buildid_set) &&
+ * (rec->no_buildid_cache || !rec->no_buildid_cache_set))
+ * disable_buildid_cache();
+ */
+ bool disable = true;
+
+ if (rec->no_buildid_set && !rec->no_buildid)
+ disable = false;
+ if (rec->no_buildid_cache_set && !rec->no_buildid_cache)
+ disable = false;
+ if (disable) {
+ rec->no_buildid = true;
+ rec->no_buildid_cache = true;
+ disable_buildid_cache();
+ }
+ }
if (rec->evlist->nr_entries == 0 &&
perf_evlist__add_default(rec->evlist) < 0) {