diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt
index 8d032f4e50bf..3a1a32f5479f 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt
@@ -207,11 +207,23 @@ comma-separated list with no space: 0,1. Ranges of CPUs are specified with -: 0-
 In per-thread mode with inheritance mode on (default), samples are captured only when
 the thread executes on the designated CPUs. Default is to monitor all CPUs.
 
+-B::
+--no-buildid::
+Do not save the build ids of binaries in the perf.data files. This skips
+post processing after recording, which sometimes makes the final step in
+the recording process to take a long time, as it needs to process all
+events looking for mmap records. The downside is that it can misresolve
+symbols if the workload binaries used when recording get locally rebuilt
+or upgraded, because the only key available in this case is the
+pathname. You can also set the "record.build-id" config variable to
+'skip to have this behaviour permanently.
+
 -N::
 --no-buildid-cache::
 Do not update the buildid cache. This saves some overhead in situations
 where the information in the perf.data file (which includes buildids)
-is sufficient.
+is sufficient.  You can also set the "record.build-id" config variable to
+'no-cache' to have the same effect.
 
 -G name,...::
 --cgroup name,...::
diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
index 3ef3c79e7534..a3b4930737c6 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
@@ -837,6 +837,19 @@ int record_callchain_opt(const struct option *opt,
 
 static int perf_record_config(const char *var, const char *value, void *cb)
 {
+	struct record *rec = cb;
+
+	if (!strcmp(var, "record.build-id")) {
+		if (!strcmp(value, "cache"))
+			rec->no_buildid_cache = false;
+		else if (!strcmp(value, "no-cache"))
+			rec->no_buildid_cache = true;
+		else if (!strcmp(value, "skip"))
+			rec->no_buildid = true;
+		else
+			return -1;
+		return 0;
+	}
 	if (!strcmp(var, "record.call-graph"))
 		var = "call-graph.record-mode"; /* fall-through */