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authorDongsheng Yang <yangds.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>2013-12-04 17:56:42 -0500
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2013-12-04 13:02:47 -0500
commited086d5b8a793955981f0726d8d66a03d801279b (patch)
treeaa4171f9de468f7834afc253a32f9dd73677239d /tools/perf/Documentation/perf-kvm.txt
parent9c105fbc94a67ea5943d309d9a78ca669e0ddc61 (diff)
perf kvm: Add more detail about buildid-list in man page
As the buildid is read from /sys/kernel/notes, then if we use perf kvm buildid-list with a perf data file captured by perf kvm record with --guestkallsyms and --guestmodules, there is no result in output. This patch add a explanation about it and add a limit of using perf kvm buildid-list. Signed-off-by: Dongsheng Yang <yangds.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/d605a805486340b53bc261aa64d7632ad0a8cf53.1386197481.git.yangds.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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@@ -37,7 +37,9 @@ There are a couple of variants of perf kvm:
37 37
38 'perf kvm buildid-list' to display the buildids found in a perf data file, 38 'perf kvm buildid-list' to display the buildids found in a perf data file,
39 so that other tools can be used to fetch packages with matching symbol tables 39 so that other tools can be used to fetch packages with matching symbol tables
40 for use by perf report. 40 for use by perf report. As buildid is read from /sys/kernel/notes in os, then
41 if you want to list the buildid for guest, please make sure your perf data file
42 was captured with --guestmount in perf kvm record.
41 43
42 'perf kvm stat <command>' to run a command and gather performance counter 44 'perf kvm stat <command>' to run a command and gather performance counter
43 statistics. 45 statistics.