perf probe: Add --cache option to cache the probe definitions

Add --cache option to cache the probe definitions. This just saves the
result of the dwarf analysis to probe cache.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Brendan Gregg <brendan.d.gregg@gmail.com>
Cc: Hemant Kumar <hemant@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160615032840.31330.44412.stgit@devbox
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-probe.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-probe.txt
index 3a8a9ba2b041..947db6fe512c 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-probe.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-probe.txt
@@ -109,6 +109,10 @@ OPTIONS
         Dry run. With this option, --add and --del doesn't execute actual
         adding and removal operations.
 
+--cache::
+        Cache the probes (with --add option). Any events which successfully added
+        are also stored in the cache file.
+
 --max-probes=NUM::
         Set the maximum number of probe points for an event. Default is 128.