[GIT PULL 00/15] perf/core improvements and fixes

[Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>]

Hi Ingo,

	Please consider pulling,

- Arnaldo

The following changes since commit ea7c28518943b26a85d73cd76acd03b71962cb18:

  Merge tag 'perf-core-for-mingo-20160506' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux into perf/core (2016-05-07 06:49:28 +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-20160510

for you to fetch changes up to 452e84012595d681f254a3a0d733fb0b18ffaf42:

  perf tools: Remove xrealloc and ALLOC_GROW (2016-05-10 11:58:27 -0300)

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perf/core improvements and fixes:

User visible:

- Recording 'dwarf' callchains do not need DWARF unwinding support (He Kuang)

- Print recently added perf_event_attr.write_backward bit flag in -vv
  verbose mode (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)

- Fix incorrect python db-export error message in 'perf script' (Chris Phlipot)

- Fix handling of zero-length symbols (Chris Phlipot)

Andi Kleen (1):
  perf stat: Scale values by unit before metrics

Infrastructure:

- Rewrite strbuf not to die(), making tools using it to check its
  return value instead (Masami Hiramatsu)

- Support reading from backward ring buffer, add a 'perf test' entry
  for it (Wang Nan)

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

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Andi Kleen (1):
      perf stat: Scale values by unit before metrics

Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo (1):
      perf evsel: Print state of perf_event_attr.write_backward

Chris Phlipot (2):
      perf script: Fix incorrect python db-export error message
      perf symbols: Fix handling of zero-length symbols.

He Kuang (1):
      perf callchain: Recording 'dwarf' callchains do not need DWARF unwinding support

Masami Hiramatsu (8):
      perf tools: Rewrite strbuf not to die()
      perf probe: Check the return value of strbuf APIs
      perf help: Make check_emacsclient_version to check strbuf APIs
      perf tools: Make alias handler to check return value of strbuf
      perf header: Make topology checkers to check return value of strbuf
      perf pmu: Make pmu_formats_string to check return value of strbuf
      perf help: Do not use ALLOC_GROW in add_cmd_list
      perf tools: Remove xrealloc and ALLOC_GROW

Wang Nan (2):
      perf tools: Support reading from backward ring buffer
      perf tests: Add test to check backward ring buffer

 tools/perf/builtin-help.c                          |  18 +--
 tools/perf/perf.c                                  |   8 +-
 tools/perf/tests/Build                             |   1 +
 tools/perf/tests/backward-ring-buffer.c            | 151 +++++++++++++++++++++
 tools/perf/tests/builtin-test.c                    |   4 +
 tools/perf/tests/tests.h                           |   1 +
 tools/perf/util/Build                              |   1 -
 tools/perf/util/cache.h                            |  19 ---
 tools/perf/util/dwarf-aux.c                        |  52 ++++---
 tools/perf/util/evlist.c                           |  50 +++++++
 tools/perf/util/evlist.h                           |   4 +
 tools/perf/util/evsel.c                            |   1 +
 tools/perf/util/header.c                           |  31 +++--
 tools/perf/util/help-unknown-cmd.c                 |  30 ++--
 tools/perf/util/pmu.c                              |  10 +-
 tools/perf/util/probe-event.c                      | 143 +++++++++++--------
 tools/perf/util/probe-finder.c                     |  30 ++--
 tools/perf/util/quote.c                            |  36 ++---
 tools/perf/util/quote.h                            |   2 +-
 .../util/scripting-engines/trace-event-python.c    |   2 +-
 tools/perf/util/stat.c                             |   4 +-
 tools/perf/util/strbuf.c                           |  93 +++++++++----
 tools/perf/util/strbuf.h                           |  25 ++--
 tools/perf/util/symbol.c                           |   2 +-
 tools/perf/util/util.c                             |   2 -
 tools/perf/util/util.h                             |   6 -
 tools/perf/util/wrapper.c                          |  29 ----
 27 files changed, 510 insertions(+), 245 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 tools/perf/tests/backward-ring-buffer.c
 delete mode 100644 tools/perf/util/wrapper.c