[GIT PULL 00/16] perf/core improvements and fixes

From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Date: Mon Jul 04 2016 - 20:39:43 EST


Hi Ingo,

Please consider pulling,

Build status:

[root@jouet ~]# dm
alpine:3.4: FAIL <--- strerror_r usage needs to be made XSI-compliant, Alpine Linux uses musl libc
centos:5: FAIL <--- flex snafu, being investigated by Jiri
centos:6: Ok
centos:7: Ok
debian:7: Ok
debian:8: Ok
debian:experimental: Ok
fedora:21: Ok
fedora:22: Ok
fedora:23: Ok
fedora:24: Ok
fedora:rawhide: Ok
mageia:5: Ok
opensuse:13.2: Ok
opensuse:42.1: Ok
ubuntu:12.04.5: Ok
ubuntu:14.04.4: Ok
ubuntu:15.10: Ok
ubuntu:16.04: Ok
[root@jouet ~]#

These images are now available at: https://hub.docker.com/search/?q=acmel

And the 'dm' script at: https://fedorapeople.org/~acme/perf/dm

Regards,

- Arnaldo

The following changes since commit dc29bb47a34130459fadd58f05e2acd051a6327d:

Merge tag 'perf-core-for-mingo-20160630' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux into perf/core (2016-07-01 08:40:39 +0200)

are available in the git repository at:

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux.git tags/perf-core-for-mingo-20160704

for you to fetch changes up to f3d082ceabe53177c98bfa4580a294c2844966e8:

perf tools: Sync copy of syscall_64.tbl with the kernel (2016-07-04 20:29:40 -0300)

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perf/core improvements and fixes:

Documentation:

- Update android build documentation (Chris Phlipot)

Infrastructure:

- Respect WERROR=0 in libapi and libsubcmd, to allow building on Android (Chris Phlipot)

- Prep work to support SDT events in probe cache (Masami Hiramatsu)

- ELF support for SDT (Hemant Kumar)

- Add feature detection for libelf's elf_getshdrstrndx function (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)

- Fix hist accumulation test (Jiri Olsa)

- Unwind callchain fixes (Jiri Olsa)

- Change internal representation of numa nodes obtained from
perf.data header (Jiri Olsa)

- Sync copy of syscall_64.tbl with the kernel (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)

- Add LGPL 2.1 license header to libbpf source files (Wang Nan)

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>

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Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo (2):
perf build: Add feature detection for libelf's elf_getshdrstrndx()
perf tools: Sync copy of syscall_64.tbl with the kernel

Chris Phlipot (3):
tools lib api: Respect WERROR=0 for build
tools lib subcmd: Respect WERROR=0 for build
perf tools: Update android build documentation

Hemant Kumar (1):
perf sdt: ELF support for SDT

Jiri Olsa (4):
perf header: Transform nodes string info to struct
perf tests: Fix hist accumulation test
perf unwind: Add initialized arg into unwind__prepare_access
perf unwind: Call unwind__prepare_access for forked thread

Masami Hiramatsu (5):
perf probe: Use cache entry if possible
perf probe: Show all cached probes
perf probe: Remove caches when --cache is given
perf probe: Add group name support
perf buildid-cache: Scan and import user SDT events to probe cache

Wang Nan (1):
tools lib bpf: Add license header

tools/build/Makefile.feature | 1 +
tools/build/feature/Makefile | 4 +
tools/build/feature/test-all.c | 5 +
tools/build/feature/test-libelf-getshdrstrndx.c | 8 +
tools/lib/api/Makefile | 8 +-
tools/lib/bpf/bpf.c | 13 ++
tools/lib/bpf/bpf.h | 13 ++
tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c | 13 ++
tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.h | 13 ++
tools/lib/subcmd/Makefile | 8 +-
tools/perf/Documentation/android.txt | 16 +-
tools/perf/Documentation/perf-buildid-cache.txt | 3 +
tools/perf/Documentation/perf-probe.txt | 19 +-
tools/perf/arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_64.tbl | 2 +
tools/perf/builtin-probe.c | 31 ++-
tools/perf/config/Makefile | 4 +
tools/perf/tests/hists_cumulate.c | 4 +
tools/perf/util/build-id.c | 138 +++++++++++-
tools/perf/util/build-id.h | 3 +
tools/perf/util/callchain.h | 1 +
tools/perf/util/env.c | 5 +-
tools/perf/util/env.h | 10 +-
tools/perf/util/header.c | 76 +++----
tools/perf/util/map.c | 9 +-
tools/perf/util/map.h | 2 +-
tools/perf/util/probe-event.c | 91 +++++++-
tools/perf/util/probe-file.c | 175 ++++++++++++++-
tools/perf/util/probe-file.h | 10 +-
tools/perf/util/symbol-elf.c | 260 ++++++++++++++++++++++
tools/perf/util/symbol.h | 22 ++
tools/perf/util/thread.c | 39 +++-
tools/perf/util/unwind-libunwind.c | 11 +-
tools/perf/util/unwind.h | 9 +-
tools/perf/util/util.c | 19 +-
34 files changed, 940 insertions(+), 105 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 tools/build/feature/test-libelf-getshdrstrndx.c