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-rw-r--r--tools/perf/Documentation/perf-buildid-cache.txt11
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/builtin-buildid-cache.c6
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/util/build-id.c12
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/util/build-id.h1
4 files changed, 25 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-buildid-cache.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-buildid-cache.txt
index 0294c57b1f5e..cec6b57e8be6 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-buildid-cache.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-buildid-cache.txt
@@ -41,9 +41,14 @@ OPTIONS
--missing=::
List missing build ids in the cache for the specified file.
-u::
---update::
- Update specified file of the cache. It can be used to update kallsyms
- kernel dso to vmlinux in order to support annotation.
+--update=::
+ Update specified file of the cache. Note that this doesn't remove
+ older entires since those may be still needed for annotating old
+ (or remote) perf.data. Only if there is already a cache which has
+ exactly same build-id, that is replaced by new one. It can be used
+ to update kallsyms and kernel dso to vmlinux in order to support
+ annotation.
+
-v::
--verbose::
Be more verbose.
diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-buildid-cache.c b/tools/perf/builtin-buildid-cache.c
index d929d9544664..e7568f5844ad 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-buildid-cache.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-buildid-cache.c
@@ -255,7 +255,7 @@ static int build_id_cache__update_file(const char *filename)
u8 build_id[BUILD_ID_SIZE];
char sbuild_id[BUILD_ID_SIZE * 2 + 1];
- int err;
+ int err = 0;
if (filename__read_build_id(filename, &build_id, sizeof(build_id)) < 0) {
pr_debug("Couldn't read a build-id in %s\n", filename);
@@ -263,7 +263,9 @@ static int build_id_cache__update_file(const char *filename)
}
build_id__sprintf(build_id, sizeof(build_id), sbuild_id);
- err = build_id_cache__remove_s(sbuild_id);
+ if (build_id_cache__cached(sbuild_id))
+ err = build_id_cache__remove_s(sbuild_id);
+
if (!err)
err = build_id_cache__add_s(sbuild_id, filename, false, false);
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/build-id.c b/tools/perf/util/build-id.c
index adbc36028636..0bc33be5a78c 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/build-id.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/build-id.c
@@ -352,6 +352,18 @@ static int build_id_cache__add_b(const u8 *build_id, size_t build_id_size,
return build_id_cache__add_s(sbuild_id, name, is_kallsyms, is_vdso);
}
+bool build_id_cache__cached(const char *sbuild_id)
+{
+ bool ret = false;
+ char *filename = build_id__filename(sbuild_id, NULL, 0);
+
+ if (filename && !access(filename, F_OK))
+ ret = true;
+ free(filename);
+
+ return ret;
+}
+
int build_id_cache__remove_s(const char *sbuild_id)
{
const size_t size = PATH_MAX;
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/build-id.h b/tools/perf/util/build-id.h
index 31b3c6332a1a..2a094982f954 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/build-id.h
+++ b/tools/perf/util/build-id.h
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ bool perf_session__read_build_ids(struct perf_session *session, bool with_hits);
int perf_session__write_buildid_table(struct perf_session *session, int fd);
int perf_session__cache_build_ids(struct perf_session *session);
+bool build_id_cache__cached(const char *sbuild_id);
int build_id_cache__add_s(const char *sbuild_id,
const char *name, bool is_kallsyms, bool is_vdso);
int build_id_cache__remove_s(const char *sbuild_id);