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authorNamhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com>2013-02-07 10:02:11 +0100
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2013-02-14 18:59:27 +0100
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perf buildid-cache: Add --update option
When adding vmlinux file to build-id cache, it'd be fail since kallsyms dso with a same build-id was already added by perf record. So one needs to remove the kallsyms first to add vmlinux into the cache. Add --update option for doing it at once. Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1360227734-375-5-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-buildid-cache.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-buildid-cache.txt
index 8e798baae0fd..e9a8349a7172 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-buildid-cache.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-buildid-cache.txt
@@ -27,6 +27,10 @@ OPTIONS
-M::
--missing=::
List missing build ids in the cache for the specified file.
+-u::
+--update::
+ Update specified file of the cache. It can be used to update kallsyms
+ kernel dso to vmlinux in order to support annotation.
-v::
--verbose::
Be more verbose.