1perf-buildid-cache(1) 2===================== 3 4NAME 5---- 6perf-buildid-cache - Manage build-id cache. 7 8SYNOPSIS 9-------- 10[verse] 11'perf buildid-cache <options>' 12 13DESCRIPTION 14----------- 15This command manages the build-id cache. It can add, remove, update and purge 16files to/from the cache. In the future it should as well set upper limits for 17the space used by the cache, etc. 18This also scans the target binary for SDT (Statically Defined Tracing) and 19record it along with the buildid-cache, which will be used by perf-probe. 20For more details, see linkperf:perf-probe[1]. 21 22OPTIONS 23------- 24-a:: 25--add=:: 26 Add specified file to the cache. 27-f:: 28--force:: 29 Don't complain, do it. 30-k:: 31--kcore:: 32 Add specified kcore file to the cache. For the current host that is 33 /proc/kcore which requires root permissions to read. Be aware that 34 running 'perf buildid-cache' as root may update root's build-id cache 35 not the user's. Use the -v option to see where the file is created. 36 Note that the copied file contains only code sections not the whole core 37 image. Note also that files "kallsyms" and "modules" must also be in the 38 same directory and are also copied. All 3 files are created with read 39 permissions for root only. kcore will not be added if there is already a 40 kcore in the cache (with the same build-id) that has the same modules at 41 the same addresses. Use the -v option to see if a copy of kcore is 42 actually made. 43-r:: 44--remove=:: 45 Remove a cached binary which has same build-id of specified file 46 from the cache. 47-p:: 48--purge=:: 49 Purge all cached binaries including older caches which have specified 50 path from the cache. 51-P:: 52--purge-all:: 53 Purge all cached binaries. This will flush out entire cache. 54-M:: 55--missing=:: 56 List missing build ids in the cache for the specified file. 57-u:: 58--update=:: 59 Update specified file of the cache. Note that this doesn't remove 60 older entires since those may be still needed for annotating old 61 (or remote) perf.data. Only if there is already a cache which has 62 exactly same build-id, that is replaced by new one. It can be used 63 to update kallsyms and kernel dso to vmlinux in order to support 64 annotation. 65-l:: 66--list:: 67 List all valid binaries from cache. 68-v:: 69--verbose:: 70 Be more verbose. 71 72--target-ns=PID: 73 Obtain mount namespace information from the target pid. This is 74 used when creating a uprobe for a process that resides in a 75 different mount namespace from the perf(1) utility. 76 77SEE ALSO 78-------- 79linkperf:perf-record[1], linkperf:perf-report[1], linkperf:perf-buildid-list[1] 80