PERF-BUILDID-LIST(1)

✨ PERF-BUILDID-LIST ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to perf-buildid-list — it's a lil perf manual page (section 1) and honestly it's giving very useful, very niche, very "you'll need this later" energy 🎀

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🌸 NAME 🌸

perf-buildid-list — literally just lists the buildids chillin' inside a perf.data file 💅

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

perf buildid-list <options>

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

So what does this icon actually do? It displays the buildids it finds in a perf.data file, so that other tools can be used to fetch packages with matching symbol tables — which perf report then gets to use. iykyk 🔥

It can also show you the build id of the running kernel, or of an ELF file, when you use -i/--input. no cap, that's the tea ☕

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💖 OPTIONS 💖

• -H, --with-hits — show only the DSOs that actually have hits 👑 no wasted screen space
• -i, --input= — input file name. (default: perf.data unless stdin is a fifo) 🫶
• -f, --force — don't do ownership validation. lowkey just vibes past the check 🙈
• -k, --kernel — show the running kernel build id 🌈
• -m, --kernel-maps — show buildid, start/end text address, and path of the running kernel and its modules 🧚 all the deets
• -v, --verbose — be more verbose. talk your talk 💬

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🎀 SEE ALSO 🎀

perf-record(1), perf-top(1), perf-report(1) — the whole friend group fr fr

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okay that's the page!! slay 💅✨ written under the perf manual, dated 10/31/2026 — so go forth and list those buildids, bestie 🦋💜