Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Tue, 23 Mar 2010 16:53:39 -0300 | | From | Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/1] perf archive: Explain how to use the generated tarball |
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Em Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 08:32:46PM +0100, Ingo Molnar escreveu: > > * Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org> wrote: > > > Em Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 07:49:29PM +0100, Ingo Molnar escreveu: > > > * Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org> wrote: > > > > > > > From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> > > > > > > > > [root@doppio ~]# perf archive > > > > Now please run: > > > > > > > > $ tar xvf perf.data.tar.bz2 -C ~/.debug > > > > > > > > wherever you need to run 'perf report' on. > > > > [root@doppio ~]# > > > > > > hm, i think it would be nicer to have a way to both pack and unpack an archive > > > that is in the current directory. Something like: > > > > > > perf archive pack > > > perf archive unpack > > > > > > or so? > > > > Yes, its just that this was easy enough to improve the current situation, > > this is still a shell script that I wrote as a way to show how to do some > > porcelain out of 'perf buildid-list'. > > > > But it probably will be better to have it as a full fledged tool, as I can > > imagine people asking for .tar.xz support, and I also want to be able to > > tell it to strip debugging information, putting there just the symtabs, etc. > > Yeah - although we definitely want to keep it relatively simple - robust > archiving and cross-system transport is abot simplicity.
Yeah, 'perf archive' will be enough and use the defaults we deem best, but I just wanted to allow people to have some configurability to avoid huge DWARF laden binaries, for instance, when all a class of users may want is to do simple symbol resolution, not full blown source annotation, pick the compressor du jour, etc.
> > So if you can get this one in, the current situation would be improved and > > I'll eventually get to implement your suggestion. > > Sure, just wanted to mention this.
Notes taken! :-)
- Arnaldo
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