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

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>]

* Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> wrote:

> Hi Ingo,
> 
> 	This is on top of the previously submitted perf-core-for-mingo tag,
> please consider applying,
> 
> - Arnaldo
> 
> The following changes since commit 5ac76283b32b116c58e362e99542182ddcfc8262:
> 
>   perf cpumap: Auto initialize cpu__max_{node,cpu} (2016-01-26 16:08:36 -0300)
> 
> are available in the git repository at:
> 
>   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux.git tags/perf-core-for-mingo-2
> 
> for you to fetch changes up to 814568db641f6587c1e98a3a85f214cb6a30fe10:
> 
>   perf build: Align the names of the build tests: (2016-01-29 17:51:04 -0300)
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> New features:
> 
> - Port 'perf kvm stat' to PowerPC (Hemant Kumar)
> 
> Infrastructure:
> 
> - Use the 'feature-dump' target to do the feature checks just once and then
>   add code to reuse that in the tests/make makefile, speeding up the
>   'make -C tools/perf build-test' target (Wang Nan)
> 
> - Reduce the number of tests the 'build-test' target do to those that don't
>   pollute the source tree (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
> 
> - Improve the output of the build tests a bit by aligning the name of the
>   tests, more can be done to filter out uninteresting info in the output
>   (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
> 
> - Add perf_evlist pointer to *info_priv_size(), more prep work for
>   supporting the coresight architecture (Mathieu Poirier)
> 
> - Improve the 'perf test bp_signal' test (Wang Nan)
> 
> - Check environment before starting the BPF 'perf test', so that we can just
>   'Skip' older kernels instead of 'FAIL'ing them (Wang Nan)
> 
> - Fix cpumode of synthesized buildid event (Wang Nan)
> 
> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo (2):
>       perf tools: Speed up build-tests by reducing the number of builds tested
>       perf build: Align the names of the build tests:
> 
> Hemant Kumar (4):
>       perf kvm/{x86,s390}: Remove dependency on uapi/kvm_perf.h
>       perf kvm/{x86,s390}: Remove const from kvm_events_tp
>       perf kvm/powerpc: Port perf kvm stat to powerpc
>       perf kvm/powerpc: Add support for HCALL reasons
> 
> Jiri Olsa (1):
>       perf build: Fix feature-dump checks, we need to test all features
> 
> Mathieu Poirier (1):
>       perf auxtrace: Add perf_evlist pointer to *info_priv_size()
> 
> Wang Nan (8):
>       tools build: Check basic headers for test-compile feature checker
>       perf build: Remove all condition feature check {C,LD}FLAGS
>       perf build: Use feature dump file for build-test
>       perf buildid: Fix cpumode of buildid event
>       perf test: Check environment before start real BPF test
>       perf test: Improve bp_signal
>       perf tools: Move timestamp creation to util
>       perf record: Use OPT_BOOLEAN_SET for buildid cache related options
> 
>  tools/build/Makefile.feature                   |   8 ++
>  tools/build/feature/test-compile.c             |   2 +
>  tools/perf/Makefile                            |  11 +-
>  tools/perf/arch/powerpc/Makefile               |   2 +
>  tools/perf/arch/powerpc/util/Build             |   1 +
>  tools/perf/arch/powerpc/util/book3s_hcalls.h   | 123 ++++++++++++++++++
>  tools/perf/arch/powerpc/util/book3s_hv_exits.h |  33 +++++
>  tools/perf/arch/powerpc/util/kvm-stat.c        | 170 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  tools/perf/arch/s390/util/kvm-stat.c           |  10 +-
>  tools/perf/arch/x86/util/intel-bts.c           |   4 +-
>  tools/perf/arch/x86/util/intel-pt.c            |   4 +-
>  tools/perf/arch/x86/util/kvm-stat.c            |  16 ++-
>  tools/perf/builtin-buildid-cache.c             |  14 +-
>  tools/perf/builtin-kvm.c                       |  38 ++++--
>  tools/perf/builtin-record.c                    |  12 +-
>  tools/perf/config/Makefile                     | 101 +++++++--------
>  tools/perf/tests/bp_signal.c                   | 140 ++++++++++++++++----
>  tools/perf/tests/bpf.c                         |  37 ++++++
>  tools/perf/tests/make                          |  39 +++++-
>  tools/perf/util/auxtrace.c                     |   7 +-
>  tools/perf/util/auxtrace.h                     |   6 +-
>  tools/perf/util/build-id.c                     |   6 +-
>  tools/perf/util/kvm-stat.h                     |   8 +-
>  tools/perf/util/util.c                         |  17 +++
>  tools/perf/util/util.h                         |   1 +
>  25 files changed, 688 insertions(+), 122 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 tools/perf/arch/powerpc/util/book3s_hcalls.h
>  create mode 100644 tools/perf/arch/powerpc/util/book3s_hv_exits.h
>  create mode 100644 tools/perf/arch/powerpc/util/kvm-stat.c

Pulled, thanks a lot Arnaldo!

	Ingo