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 entries 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
77--debuginfod[=URLs]::
78	Specify debuginfod URL to be used when retrieving perf.data binaries,
79	it follows the same syntax as the DEBUGINFOD_URLS variable, like:
80
81	  buildid-cache.debuginfod=http://192.168.122.174:8002
82
83	If the URLs is not specified, the value of DEBUGINFOD_URLS
84	system environment variable is used.
85
86SEE ALSO
87--------
88linkperf:perf-record[1], linkperf:perf-report[1], linkperf:perf-buildid-list[1]
89