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@@ -154,6 +154,21 @@ tui.*, gtk.*::
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will make the TUI be the default for the 'top' subcommand. Those will be
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available if the required libs were detected at tool build time.
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+buildid.*::
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+ buildid.dir::
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+ Each executable and shared library in modern distributions comes with a
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+ content based identifier that, if available, will be inserted in a
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+ 'perf.data' file header to, at analysis time find what is needed to do
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+ symbol resolution, code annotation, etc.
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+
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+ The recording tools also stores a hard link or copy in a per-user
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+ directory, $HOME/.debug/, of binaries, shared libraries, /proc/kallsyms
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+ and /proc/kcore files to be used at analysis time.
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+
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+ The buildid.dir variable can be used to either change this directory
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+ cache location, or to disable it altogether. If you want to disable it,
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+ set buildid.dir to /dev/null. The default is $HOME/.debug
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SEE ALSO
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--------
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linkperf:perf[1]
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