The cost of buildid cache processing is high: reading all events in output perf.data, opening each elf file to read buildids then copying them into ~/.debug directory. In switch output mode, these heavy works block perf from receiving perf events for too long.
Enable no-buildid and no-buildid-cache by default if --switch-output is provided. Still allow user use --no-no-buildid to explicitly enable buildid in this case. Signed-off-by: Wang Nan <wangn...@huawei.com> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hun...@intel.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jo...@kernel.org> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhira...@kernel.org> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhy...@kernel.org> Cc: Zefan Li <lize...@huawei.com> Cc: pi3or...@163.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1460643725-167413-5-git-send-email-wangn...@huawei.com Signed-off-by: He Kuang <heku...@huawei.com> [ Updated man page ] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <a...@redhat.com> --- tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt | 2 +- tools/perf/builtin-record.c | 30 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- 2 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt index 79a8a14..8dbee83 100644 --- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt +++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt @@ -358,7 +358,7 @@ A possible use case is to, given an external event, slice the perf.data file that gets then processed, possibly via a perf script, to decide if that particular perf.data snapshot should be kept or not. -Implies --timestamp-filename. +Implies --timestamp-filename, --no-buildid and --no-buildid-cache. SEE ALSO -------- diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c index c389d52..743af13 100644 --- a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c +++ b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c @@ -1382,8 +1382,36 @@ int cmd_record(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix __maybe_unused) "If some relocation was applied (e.g. kexec) symbols may be misresolved\n" "even with a suitable vmlinux or kallsyms file.\n\n"); - if (rec->no_buildid_cache || rec->no_buildid) + if (rec->no_buildid_cache || rec->no_buildid) { disable_buildid_cache(); + } else if (rec->switch_output) { + /* + * In 'perf record --switch-output', disable buildid + * generation by default to reduce data file switching + * overhead. Still generate buildid if they are required + * explicitly using + * + * perf record --signal-trigger --no-no-buildid \ + * --no-no-buildid-cache + * + * Following code equals to: + * + * if ((rec->no_buildid || !rec->no_buildid_set) && + * (rec->no_buildid_cache || !rec->no_buildid_cache_set)) + * disable_buildid_cache(); + */ + bool disable = true; + + if (rec->no_buildid_set && !rec->no_buildid) + disable = false; + if (rec->no_buildid_cache_set && !rec->no_buildid_cache) + disable = false; + if (disable) { + rec->no_buildid = true; + rec->no_buildid_cache = true; + disable_buildid_cache(); + } + } if (rec->evlist->nr_entries == 0 && perf_evlist__add_default(rec->evlist) < 0) { -- 1.8.3.4
