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authorArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2011-08-29 08:07:22 -0300
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2011-09-29 16:41:37 -0300
commitf2add9cd66c87baea6762b099ee38ee742207699 (patch)
tree3c25e91bb38b2098fa2640b93caa1080b85cfbda /tools/perf/Documentation
parent63e03724b51e7315a66a3f1fee6cb8b4a16dc8cc (diff)
perf buildid-list: Add option to show the running kernel build id
[root@emilia ~]# perf buildid-list -k 07b0c016a2b30004e86132d0239945b1e88f5d75 Useful when diagnosing build id problems in debuginfo packages, etc. Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-po1bl7acn6e1hhne90opmvtl@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-buildid-list.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-buildid-list.txt
index 5eaac6f26d5..770a7f3bd75 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-buildid-list.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-buildid-list.txt
@@ -16,6 +16,8 @@ This command displays 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.
+It can also be used to show the build id of the running kernel.
+
OPTIONS
-------
-H::
@@ -27,6 +29,9 @@ OPTIONS
-f::
--force::
Don't do ownership validation.
+-k::
+--kernel::
+ Show running kernel build id.
-v::
--verbose::
Be more verbose.