perf record: Add option to disable collecting build-ids

Collecting build-ids for long running sessions may take a long time
because it needs to traverse the whole just collected perf.data stream
of events, marking the DSOs that had hits and then looking for the
.note.gnu.build-id ELF section.

For things like the 'trace' tool that records and right away consumes
the data on systems where its unlikely that the DSOs being monitored
will change while 'trace' runs, it is desirable to remove build id
collection, so add a -B/--no-buildid option to perf record to allow such
use case.

Longer term we'll avoid all this if we, at DSO load time, in the kernel,
take advantage of this slow code path to collect the build-id and stash
it somewhere, so that we can insert it in the PERF_RECORD_MMAP event.

Reported-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

4 files changed, 26 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
index 3d2cb4899807..024e1441d76b 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ static bool			inherit_stat			=  false;
 static bool			no_samples			=  false;
 static bool			sample_address			=  false;
 static bool			no_buildid			=  false;
+static bool			no_buildid_cache		=  false;
 
 static long			samples				=      0;
 static u64			bytes_written			=      0;
@@ -437,7 +438,8 @@ static void atexit_header(void)
 	if (!pipe_output) {
 		session->header.data_size += bytes_written;
 
-		process_buildids();
+		if (!no_buildid)
+			process_buildids();
 		perf_header__write(&session->header, output, true);
 		perf_session__delete(session);
 		symbol__exit();
@@ -557,6 +559,9 @@ static int __cmd_record(int argc, const char **argv)
 		return -1;
 	}
 
+	if (!no_buildid)
+		perf_header__set_feat(&session->header, HEADER_BUILD_ID);
+
 	if (!file_new) {
 		err = perf_header__read(session, output);
 		if (err < 0)
@@ -831,8 +836,10 @@ const struct option record_options[] = {
 		    "Sample addresses"),
 	OPT_BOOLEAN('n', "no-samples", &no_samples,
 		    "don't sample"),
-	OPT_BOOLEAN('N', "no-buildid-cache", &no_buildid,
+	OPT_BOOLEAN('N', "no-buildid-cache", &no_buildid_cache,
 		    "do not update the buildid cache"),
+	OPT_BOOLEAN('B', "no-buildid", &no_buildid,
+		    "do not collect buildids in perf.data"),
 	OPT_END()
 };
 
@@ -857,7 +864,8 @@ int cmd_record(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix __used)
 	}
 
 	symbol__init();
-	if (no_buildid)
+
+	if (no_buildid_cache || no_buildid)
 		disable_buildid_cache();
 
 	if (!nr_counters) {
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/header.c b/tools/perf/util/header.c
index d7e67b167ea3..f65d7dc127b6 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/header.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/header.c
@@ -152,6 +152,11 @@ void perf_header__set_feat(struct perf_header *self, int feat)
 	set_bit(feat, self->adds_features);
 }
 
+void perf_header__clear_feat(struct perf_header *self, int feat)
+{
+	clear_bit(feat, self->adds_features);
+}
+
 bool perf_header__has_feat(const struct perf_header *self, int feat)
 {
 	return test_bit(feat, self->adds_features);
@@ -431,8 +436,10 @@ static int perf_header__adds_write(struct perf_header *self, int fd)
 	int idx = 0, err;
 
 	session = container_of(self, struct perf_session, header);
-	if (perf_session__read_build_ids(session, true))
-		perf_header__set_feat(self, HEADER_BUILD_ID);
+
+	if (perf_header__has_feat(self, HEADER_BUILD_ID &&
+	    !perf_session__read_build_ids(session, true)))
+		perf_header__clear_feat(self, HEADER_BUILD_ID);
 
 	nr_sections = bitmap_weight(self->adds_features, HEADER_FEAT_BITS);
 	if (!nr_sections)
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/header.h b/tools/perf/util/header.h
index 402ac2454cf8..ed550bffd655 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/header.h
+++ b/tools/perf/util/header.h
@@ -84,6 +84,7 @@ u64 perf_header__sample_type(struct perf_header *header);
 struct perf_event_attr *
 perf_header__find_attr(u64 id, struct perf_header *header);
 void perf_header__set_feat(struct perf_header *self, int feat);
+void perf_header__clear_feat(struct perf_header *self, int feat);
 bool perf_header__has_feat(const struct perf_header *self, int feat);
 
 int perf_header__process_sections(struct perf_header *self, int fd,
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/include/linux/bitops.h b/tools/perf/util/include/linux/bitops.h
index bb4ac2e05385..8be0b968ca0b 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/include/linux/bitops.h
+++ b/tools/perf/util/include/linux/bitops.h
@@ -13,6 +13,11 @@ static inline void set_bit(int nr, unsigned long *addr)
 	addr[nr / BITS_PER_LONG] |= 1UL << (nr % BITS_PER_LONG);
 }
 
+static inline void clear_bit(int nr, unsigned long *addr)
+{
+	addr[nr / BITS_PER_LONG] &= ~(1UL << (nr % BITS_PER_LONG));
+}
+
 static __always_inline int test_bit(unsigned int nr, const unsigned long *addr)
 {
 	return ((1UL << (nr % BITS_PER_LONG)) &