Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | From | Dongsheng Yang <> | Subject | [PATCH 4/5] perf tools: Add more detail about buildid-list in Document of perf-kvm. | Date | Wed, 4 Dec 2013 17:56:42 -0500 |
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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> --- tools/perf/Documentation/perf-kvm.txt | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-kvm.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-kvm.txt index 830613a..be1d263 100644 --- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-kvm.txt +++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-kvm.txt @@ -44,7 +44,9 @@ There are a couple of variants of perf kvm: 'perf kvm buildid-list' to display the buildids found in a perf data file, so that other tools can be used to fetch packages with matching symbol tables - for use by perf report. + for use by perf report. As buildid is read from /sys/kernel/notes in os, then + if you want to list the buildid for guest, please make sure your perf data file + was captured with --guestmount in perf kvm record. 'perf kvm stat <command>' to run a command and gather performance counter statistics. -- 1.8.2.1
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