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| author | Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> | 2011-08-29 08:33:17 -0300 |
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| committer | Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> | 2011-09-29 16:41:37 -0300 |
| commit | 7a6f205d623afaf05aee387aa6bc57fa43421061 (patch) | |
| tree | 30c3976fd7f4e028c6c3b7819e26a3db4059fbec /tools/perf/Documentation | |
| parent | f2add9cd66c87baea6762b099ee38ee742207699 (diff) | |
perf buildid-list: Support showing the build id in an ELF file
Try first reading the build id, validating that it is an ELF file, etc.
Cheap as libelf will bail out as soon as the magic number check fails.
Useful when investigating debuginfo packaging problems like this one:
[root@emilia ~]# perf buildid-list -i /usr/lib/debug/lib/modules/`uname -r`/vmlinux
77bb4ea591a602d455ace759a377c9adfff1aba3
[root@emilia ~]# perf buildid-list -k
07b0c016a2b30004e86132d0239945b1e88f5d75
[root@emilia ~]#
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-4elot9oxwa0rr0d90dshca3a@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/perf/Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | tools/perf/Documentation/perf-buildid-list.txt | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-buildid-list.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-buildid-list.txt index 770a7f3bd75..cc22325ffd1 100644 --- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-buildid-list.txt +++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-buildid-list.txt @@ -16,7 +16,8 @@ This command displays the buildids found in a perf.data file, so that other tools can be used to fetch packages with matching symbol tables for use by perf report. -It can also be used to show the build id of the running kernel. +It can also be used to show the build id of the running kernel or in an ELF +file using -i/--input. OPTIONS ------- |