perf buildid-cache: Add new command to manage build-id cache

For now it just has operations to examine a given file, find its
build-id and add or remove it to/from the cache.

Useful, for instance, when adding binaries sent together with a
perf.data file, so that we can add them to the cache and have
the tools find it when resolving symbols.

It'll also manage the size of the cache like 'ccache' does.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <1264008525-29025-1-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

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+perf-buildid-cache(1)
+=====================
+
+NAME
+----
+perf-buildid-cache - Manage build-id cache.
+
+SYNOPSIS
+--------
+[verse]
+'perf buildid-list <options>'
+
+DESCRIPTION
+-----------
+This command manages the build-id cache. It can add and remove files to the
+cache. In the future it should as well purge older entries, set upper limits
+for the space used by the cache, etc.
+
+OPTIONS
+-------
+-a::
+--add=::
+        Add specified file to the cache.
+-r::
+--remove=::
+        Remove specified file to the cache.
+-v::
+--verbose::
+        Be more verbose.
+
+SEE ALSO
+--------
+linkperf:perf-record[1], linkperf:perf-report[1]