[GIT PULL 00/41] perf/core improvements and fixes
Ingo Molnar
mingo at kernel.org
Sat Feb 17 02:49:09 PST 2018
* Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme at kernel.org> wrote:
> Hi Ingo,
>
> Please consider pulling, this is on top of tip/perf/urgent.
>
> - Arnaldo
>
> Test results at the end of this message, as usual.
>
> The following changes since commit 297f9233b53a08fd457815e19f1d6f2c3389857b:
>
> kprobes: Propagate error from disarm_kprobe_ftrace() (2018-02-16 09:12:58 +0100)
>
> are available in the Git repository at:
>
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux.git tags/perf-core-for-mingo-4.17-20180216
>
> for you to fetch changes up to 21316ac6803d4a1aadd74b896db8d60a92cd1140:
>
> perf tests shell lib: Use a wildcard to remove the vfs_getname probe (2018-02-16 15:31:12 -0300)
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> perf/core improvements and fixes:
>
> - Fix wrong jump arrow in systems with branch records with cycles,
> i.e. Intel's >= Skylake (Jin Yao)
>
> - Fix 'perf record --per-thread' problem introduced when
> implementing 'perf stat --per-thread (Jin Yao)
>
> - Use arch__compare_symbol_names() to fix 'perf test vmlinux',
> that was using strcmp(symbol names) while the dso routines
> doing symbol lookups used the arch overridable one, making
> this test fail in architectures that overrided that function
> with something other than strcmp() (Jiri Olsa)
>
> - Add 'perf script --show-round-event' to display
> PERF_RECORD_FINISHED_ROUND entries (Jiri Olsa)
>
> - Fix dwarf unwind for stripped binaries in 'perf test' (Jiri Olsa)
>
> - Use ordered_events for 'perf report --tasks', otherwise we may get
> artifacts when PERF_RECORD_FORK gets processed before PERF_RECORD_COMM
> (when they got recorded in different CPUs) (Jiri Olsa)
>
> - Add support to display group output for non group events, i.e.
> now when one uses 'perf report --group' on a perf.data file
> recorded without explicitly grouping events with {} (e.g.
> "perf record -e '{cycles,instructions}'" get the same output
> that would produce, i.e. see all those non-grouped events in
> multiple columns, at the same time (Jiri Olsa)
>
> - Skip non-address kallsyms entries, e.g. '(null)' for !root (Jiri Olsa)
>
> - Kernel maps fixes wrt perf.data(report) versus live system (top)
> (Jiri Olsa)
>
> - Fix memory corruption when using 'perf record -j call -g -a <application>'
> followed by 'perf report --branch-history' (Jiri Olsa)
>
> - ARM CoreSight fixes (Mathieu Poirier)
>
> - Add inject capability for CoreSight Traces (Robert Waker)
>
> - Update documentation for use of 'perf' + ARM CoreSight (Robert Walker)
>
> - Man pages fixes (Sangwon Hong, Jaecheol Shin)
>
> - Fix some 'perf test' cases on s/390 and x86_64 (some backtraces
> changed with a glibc update) (Thomas Richter)
>
> - Add detailed CPUID info in the 'perf.data' headers for s/390 to
> then use it in 'perf annotate' (Thomas Richter)
>
> - Add '--interval-count N' to 'perf stat', to use with -I, i.e.
> 'perf stat -I 1000 --interval-count 2' will show stats every
> 1000ms, two times (yuzhoujian)
>
> - Add 'perf stat --timeout Nms', that will run for that many
> milliseconds and then stop, printing the counters (yuzhoujian)
>
> - Fix description for 'perf report --mem-modex (Andi Kleen)
>
> - Use a wildcard to remove the vfs_getname probe in the
> 'perf test' shell based test cases (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
>
> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme at redhat.com>
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> Andi Kleen (1):
> perf report: Fix description for --mem-mode
>
> Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo (1):
> perf tests shell lib: Use a wildcard to remove the vfs_getname probe
>
> Jaecheol Shin (1):
> perf annotate: Add missing arguments in Man page
>
> Jin Yao (2):
> perf tools: Use target->per_thread and target->system_wide flags
> perf report: Fix wrong jump arrow
>
> Jiri Olsa (18):
> perf record: Put new line after target override warning
> perf script: Add --show-round-event to display PERF_RECORD_FINISHED_ROUND
> tools lib api fs: Add filename__read_xll function
> tools lib api fs: Add sysfs__read_xll function
> perf tests: Fix dwarf unwind for stripped binaries
> perf tools: Fix comment for sort__* compare functions
> perf report: Ask for ordered events for --tasks option
> perf report: Add support to display group output for non group events
> tools lib symbol: Skip non-address kallsyms line
> perf symbols: Check if we read regular file in dso__load()
> perf machine: Free root_dir in machine__init() error path
> perf machine: Move kernel mmap name into struct machine
> perf machine: Generalize machine__set_kernel_mmap()
> perf machine: Don't search for active kernel start in __machine__create_kernel_maps
> perf machine: Remove machine__load_kallsyms()
> perf tools: Do not create kernel maps in sample__resolve()
> perf tests: Use arch__compare_symbol_names to compare symbols
> perf report: Fix memory corruption in --branch-history mode --branch-history
>
> Mathieu Poirier (3):
> perf cs-etm: Freeing allocated memory
> perf auxtrace arm: Fixing uninitialised variable
> perf cs-etm: Properly deal with cpu maps
>
> Ravi Bangoria (3):
> tools include powerpc: Grab a copy of arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/unistd.h
> perf powerpc: Generate system call table from asm/unistd.h
> perf trace powerpc: Use generated syscall table
>
> Robert Walker (3):
> perf cs-etm: Inject capabilitity for CoreSight traces
> perf inject: Emit instruction records on ETM trace discontinuity
> coresight: Update documentation for perf usage
>
> Sangwon Hong (2):
> perf kmem: Document a missing option & an argument
> perf mem: Document a missing option
>
> Thomas Richter (5):
> perf record: Provide detailed information on s390 CPU
> perf annotate: Scan cpuid for s390 and save machine type
> perf cpuid: Introduce a platform specific cpuid compare function
> perf test: Fix test case 23 for s390 z/VM or KVM guests
> perf test: Fix test case inet_pton to accept inlines.
>
> yuzhoujian (2):
> perf stat: Add support to print counts for fixed times
> perf stat: Add support to print counts after a period of time
>
> Documentation/trace/coresight.txt | 51 +++
> tools/arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/unistd.h | 402 +++++++++++++++++
> tools/lib/api/fs/fs.c | 44 +-
> tools/lib/api/fs/fs.h | 2 +
> tools/lib/symbol/kallsyms.c | 4 +
> tools/perf/Documentation/perf-annotate.txt | 6 +-
> tools/perf/Documentation/perf-kmem.txt | 6 +-
> tools/perf/Documentation/perf-mem.txt | 4 +
> tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt | 5 +-
> tools/perf/Documentation/perf-script.txt | 3 +
> tools/perf/Documentation/perf-stat.txt | 10 +
> tools/perf/Makefile.config | 2 +
> tools/perf/arch/arm/util/auxtrace.c | 2 +-
> tools/perf/arch/arm/util/cs-etm.c | 51 ++-
> tools/perf/arch/powerpc/Makefile | 25 ++
> .../perf/arch/powerpc/entry/syscalls/mksyscalltbl | 37 ++
> tools/perf/arch/s390/annotate/instructions.c | 27 +-
> tools/perf/arch/s390/util/header.c | 148 ++++++-
> tools/perf/builtin-record.c | 2 +-
> tools/perf/builtin-report.c | 7 +-
> tools/perf/builtin-script.c | 17 +
> tools/perf/builtin-stat.c | 53 ++-
> tools/perf/check-headers.sh | 1 +
> tools/perf/tests/code-reading.c | 33 +-
> tools/perf/tests/dwarf-unwind.c | 46 +-
> tools/perf/tests/shell/lib/probe_vfs_getname.sh | 2 +-
> .../perf/tests/shell/trace+probe_libc_inet_pton.sh | 6 +-
> tools/perf/tests/vmlinux-kallsyms.c | 4 +-
> tools/perf/ui/browsers/annotate.c | 9 +-
> tools/perf/util/build-id.c | 10 +-
> tools/perf/util/cs-etm-decoder/cs-etm-decoder.c | 74 +++-
> tools/perf/util/cs-etm-decoder/cs-etm-decoder.h | 2 +
> tools/perf/util/cs-etm.c | 478 ++++++++++++++++++---
> tools/perf/util/event.c | 16 +-
> tools/perf/util/evlist.c | 21 +-
> tools/perf/util/header.h | 1 +
> tools/perf/util/hist.c | 4 +-
> tools/perf/util/hist.h | 1 -
> tools/perf/util/machine.c | 145 +++----
> tools/perf/util/machine.h | 6 +-
> tools/perf/util/pmu.c | 47 +-
> tools/perf/util/sort.c | 7 +-
> tools/perf/util/stat.h | 2 +
> tools/perf/util/symbol.c | 13 +-
> tools/perf/util/syscalltbl.c | 8 +
> tools/perf/util/thread_map.c | 4 +-
> tools/perf/util/thread_map.h | 2 +-
> 47 files changed, 1577 insertions(+), 273 deletions(-)
> create mode 100644 tools/arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/unistd.h
> create mode 100755 tools/perf/arch/powerpc/entry/syscalls/mksyscalltbl
Pulled, thanks a lot Arnaldo!
Ingo
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