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| author | Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> | 2015-02-27 13:50:26 +0900 |
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| committer | Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> | 2015-02-27 15:52:33 -0300 |
| commit | 8d8c8e4cb3014fcc51f0e127b4316043306f5bb0 (patch) | |
| tree | 1fe04d062c0cd6041fbeaf1324a3f57cf2ad0536 /tools/perf/Documentation/perf-buildid-cache.txt | |
| parent | 7335399a6a4bead9ef8b59ce7d811fc4e99ca98c (diff) | |
| download | linux-8d8c8e4cb3014fcc51f0e127b4316043306f5bb0.tar.bz2 | |
perf buildid-cache: Add --purge FILE to remove all caches of FILE
Add --purge FILE to remove all caches of FILE.
Since the current --remove FILE removes a cache which has
same build-id of given FILE. Since the command takes a
FILE path, it can confuse user who tries to remove cache
about FILE path.
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# ./perf buildid-cache -v --add ./perf
Adding 133b7b5486d987a5ab5c3ebf4ea14941f45d4d4f ./perf: Ok
# (update the ./perf binary)
# ./perf buildid-cache -v --remove ./perf
Removing 305bbd1be68f66eca7e2d78db294653031edfa79 ./perf: FAIL
./perf wasn't in the cache
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Actually, the --remove's FAIL is not shown, it just silently fails.
So, this patch adds --purge FILE action for such usecase.
perf buildid-cache --purge FILE removes all caches which has same FILE
path.
In other words, it removes all caches including old binaries.
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# ./perf buildid-cache -v --add ./perf
Adding 133b7b5486d987a5ab5c3ebf4ea14941f45d4d4f ./perf: Ok
# (update the ./perf binary)
# ./perf buildid-cache -v --purge ./perf
Removing 133b7b5486d987a5ab5c3ebf4ea14941f45d4d4f ./perf: Ok
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BTW, if you want to purge all the caches, remove ~/.debug/* .
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Hemant Kumar <hemant@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150227045026.1999.64084.stgit@localhost.localdomain
[ s/dirname/dir_name/g to fix build on fedora14, where dirname is a global ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/perf/Documentation/perf-buildid-cache.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | tools/perf/Documentation/perf-buildid-cache.txt | 13 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-buildid-cache.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-buildid-cache.txt index cec6b57e8be6..dd07b55f58d8 100644 --- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-buildid-cache.txt +++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-buildid-cache.txt @@ -12,9 +12,9 @@ SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION ----------- -This command manages the build-id cache. It can add and remove files to/from -the cache. In the future it should as well purge older entries, set upper -limits for the space used by the cache, etc. +This command manages the build-id cache. It can add, remove, update and purge +files to/from the cache. In the future it should as well set upper limits for +the space used by the cache, etc. OPTIONS ------- @@ -36,7 +36,12 @@ OPTIONS actually made. -r:: --remove=:: - Remove specified file from the cache. + Remove a cached binary which has same build-id of specified file + from the cache. +-p:: +--purge=:: + Purge all cached binaries including older caches which have specified + path from the cache. -M:: --missing=:: List missing build ids in the cache for the specified file. |