Re: [GIT PULL 00/27] perf/core improvements and fixes

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>]

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

> Hi Ingo,
> 
> 	Please consider pulling, more to come soon,
> 
> - Arnaldo
> 
> Build and test results at the end of this message.
> 
> The following changes since commit 6b652de2b27c0a4020ce0e8f277e782b6af76096:
> 
>   Merge tag 'perf-core-for-mingo-20160922' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux into perf/core (2016-09-23 07:21:38 +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-20160929
> 
> for you to fetch changes up to d18019a53a07e009899ff6b8dc5ec30f249360d9:
> 
>   perf tests: Add dwarf unwind test for powerpc (2016-09-29 11:18:21 -0300)
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> perf/core improvements and fixes:
> 
> User visible:
> -------------
> 
> New features:
> 
> - Add support for using symbols in address filters with Intel PT and ARM
>   CoreSight (hardware assisted tracing facilities) (Adrian Hunter, Mathieu Poirier)
> 
> Fixes:
> 
> - Fix MMAP event synthesis for pre-existing threads when no hugetlbfs
>   mount is in place (Adrian Hunter)
> 
> - Don't ignore kernel idle symbols in 'perf script' (Adrian Hunter)
> 
> - Assorted Intel PT fixes (Adrian Hunter)
> 
> Improvements:
> 
> - Fix handling of C++ symbols in 'perf probe' (Masami Hiramatsu)
> 
> - Beautify sched_[gs]et_attr return value in 'perf trace' (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
> 
> Infrastructure:
> ---------------
> 
> New features:
> 
> - Add dwarf unwind 'perf test' for powerpc (Ravi Bangoria)
> 
> Fixes:
> 
> - Fix error paths in 'perf record' (Adrian Hunter)
> 
> Documentation:
> 
> - Update documentation info about quipper, a C++ parser for converting
>   to/from perf.data/chromium profiling format (Simon Que)
> 
> Build Fixes:
> 
>   Fix building in 32 bit platform with libbabeltrace (Wang Nan)
> 
> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> Adrian Hunter (16):
>       perf record: Fix documentation 'event_sources' -> 'event_source'
>       perf tools: Fix MMAP event synthesis broken by MAP_HUGETLB change
>       perf script: Fix vanished idle symbols
>       perf record: Rename label 'out_symbol_exit'
>       perf record: Fix error paths
>       perf symbols: Add dso__last_symbol()
>       perf record: Add support for using symbols in address filters
>       perf probe: Increase debug level of SDT debug messages
>       perf intel-pt: Fix snapshot overlap detection decoder errors
>       perf intel-pt: Add support for recording the max non-turbo ratio
>       perf intel-pt: Fix missing error codes processing auxtrace_info
>       perf intel-pt: Add a helper function for processing AUXTRACE_INFO
>       perf intel-pt: Record address filter in AUXTRACE_INFO event
>       perf intel-pt: Read address filter from AUXTRACE_INFO event
>       perf intel-pt: Enable decoder to handle TIP.PGD with missing IP
>       perf intel-pt: Fix decoding when there are address filters
> 
> Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo (1):
>       perf trace: Beautify sched_[gs]et_attr return value
> 
> Masami Hiramatsu (4):
>       perf probe: Ignore the error of finding inline instance
>       perf probe: Skip if the function address is 0
>       perf probe: Fix to cut off incompatible chars from group name
>       perf probe: Match linkage name with mangled name
> 
> Mathieu Poirier (3):
>       perf tools: Make perf_evsel__append_filter() generic
>       perf evsel: New tracepoint specific function
>       perf evsel: Add support for address filters
> 
> Ravi Bangoria (1):
>       perf tests: Add dwarf unwind test for powerpc
> 
> Simon Que (1):
>       perf tools: Update documentation info about quipper
> 
> Wang Nan (1):
>       perf data: Fix building in 32 bit platform with libbabeltrace
> 
>  tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt           |  61 +-
>  tools/perf/Documentation/perf.data-file-format.txt |   6 +-
>  tools/perf/arch/powerpc/Build                      |   1 +
>  tools/perf/arch/powerpc/include/arch-tests.h       |  13 +
>  tools/perf/arch/powerpc/include/perf_regs.h        |   2 +
>  tools/perf/arch/powerpc/tests/Build                |   4 +
>  tools/perf/arch/powerpc/tests/arch-tests.c         |  15 +
>  tools/perf/arch/powerpc/tests/dwarf-unwind.c       |  62 ++
>  tools/perf/arch/powerpc/tests/regs_load.S          |  94 +++
>  tools/perf/arch/x86/util/intel-pt.c                |  57 +-
>  tools/perf/builtin-record.c                        |  32 +-
>  tools/perf/builtin-trace.c                         |  10 +-
>  tools/perf/tests/Build                             |   2 +-
>  tools/perf/tests/dwarf-unwind.c                    |   2 +-
>  tools/perf/util/auxtrace.c                         | 737 +++++++++++++++++++++
>  tools/perf/util/auxtrace.h                         |  54 ++
>  tools/perf/util/build-id.c                         |   4 +-
>  tools/perf/util/data-convert-bt.c                  |   2 +-
>  tools/perf/util/dwarf-aux.c                        |  28 +-
>  tools/perf/util/dwarf-aux.h                        |   3 +
>  tools/perf/util/event.c                            |   3 +-
>  tools/perf/util/evsel.c                            |  16 +-
>  tools/perf/util/evsel.h                            |   5 +-
>  tools/perf/util/evsel_fprintf.c                    |   7 +-
>  .../perf/util/intel-pt-decoder/intel-pt-decoder.c  |  30 +
>  .../perf/util/intel-pt-decoder/intel-pt-decoder.h  |   1 +
>  tools/perf/util/intel-pt.c                         | 172 ++++-
>  tools/perf/util/intel-pt.h                         |   4 +-
>  tools/perf/util/parse-events.c                     |  41 +-
>  tools/perf/util/probe-event.c                      |  10 +-
>  tools/perf/util/probe-file.c                       |   2 +-
>  tools/perf/util/probe-finder.c                     |  17 +-
>  tools/perf/util/symbol.c                           |  15 +
>  tools/perf/util/symbol.h                           |   1 +
>  34 files changed, 1451 insertions(+), 62 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 tools/perf/arch/powerpc/include/arch-tests.h
>  create mode 100644 tools/perf/arch/powerpc/tests/Build
>  create mode 100644 tools/perf/arch/powerpc/tests/arch-tests.c
>  create mode 100644 tools/perf/arch/powerpc/tests/dwarf-unwind.c
>  create mode 100644 tools/perf/arch/powerpc/tests/regs_load.S
> 
>   # time dm
>    1  alpine:3.4: Ok
>    2 android-ndk:r12b-arm: Ok
>    3 archlinux:latest: Ok
>    4 centos:5: Ok
>    5 centos:6: Ok
>    6 centos:7: Ok
>    7 debian:7: Ok
>    8 debian:8: Ok
>    9 debian:experimental: Ok
>   10 fedora:20: Ok
>   11 fedora:21: Ok
>   12 fedora:22: Ok
>   13 fedora:23: Ok
>   14 fedora:24: Ok
>   15 fedora:24-x-ARC-uClibc: Ok
>   16 fedora:rawhide: Ok
>   17 mageia:5: Ok
>   18 opensuse:13.2: Ok
>   19 opensuse:42.1: Ok
>   20 opensuse:tumbleweed: Ok
>   21 ubuntu:12.04.5: Ok
>   22 ubuntu:14.04: Ok
>   23 ubuntu:14.04.4: Ok
>   24 ubuntu:15.10: Ok
>   25 ubuntu:16.04: Ok
>   26 ubuntu:16.04-x-arm: Ok
>   27 ubuntu:16.04-x-arm64: Ok
>   28 ubuntu:16.04-x-powerpc: Ok
>   29 ubuntu:16.04-x-powerpc64: Ok
>   30 ubuntu:16.04-x-powerpc64el: Ok
>   31 ubuntu:16.04-x-s390: Ok
>   32 ubuntu:16.10: Ok
>   33 2246.21
> 
>   real	37m26.862s
>   user	0m2.148s
>   sys	0m2.256s
>   # 
> 
>   # perf test
>    1: vmlinux symtab matches kallsyms                          : Ok
>    2: detect openat syscall event                              : Ok
>    3: detect openat syscall event on all cpus                  : Ok
>    4: read samples using the mmap interface                    : Ok
>    5: parse events tests                                       : Ok
>    6: Validate PERF_RECORD_* events & perf_sample fields       : Ok
>    7: Test perf pmu format parsing                             : Ok
>    8: Test dso data read                                       : Ok
>    9: Test dso data cache                                      : Ok
>   10: Test dso data reopen                                     : Ok
>   11: roundtrip evsel->name check                              : Ok
>   12: Check parsing of sched tracepoints fields                : Ok
>   13: Generate and check syscalls:sys_enter_openat event fields: Ok
>   14: struct perf_event_attr setup                             : Ok
>   15: Test matching and linking multiple hists                 : Ok
>   16: Try 'import perf' in python, checking link problems      : Ok
>   17: Test breakpoint overflow signal handler                  : Ok
>   18: Test breakpoint overflow sampling                        : Ok
>   19: Test number of exit event of a simple workload           : Ok
>   20: Test software clock events have valid period values      : Ok
>   21: Test object code reading                                 : Ok
>   22: Test sample parsing                                      : Ok
>   23: Test using a dummy software event to keep tracking       : Ok
>   24: Test parsing with no sample_id_all bit set               : Ok
>   25: Test filtering hist entries                              : Ok
>   26: Test mmap thread lookup                                  : Ok
>   27: Test thread mg sharing                                   : Ok
>   28: Test output sorting of hist entries                      : Ok
>   29: Test cumulation of child hist entries                    : Ok
>   30: Test tracking with sched_switch                          : Ok
>   31: Filter fds with revents mask in a fdarray                : Ok
>   32: Add fd to a fdarray, making it autogrow                  : Ok
>   33: Test kmod_path__parse function                           : Ok
>   34: Test thread map                                          : Ok
>   35: Test LLVM searching and compiling                        :
>   35.1: Basic BPF llvm compiling test                          : Ok
>   35.2: Test kbuild searching                                  : Ok
>   35.3: Compile source for BPF prologue generation test        : Ok
>   35.4: Compile source for BPF relocation test                 : Ok
>   36: Test topology in session                                 : Ok
>   37: Test BPF filter                                          :
>   37.1: Test basic BPF filtering                               : Ok
>   37.2: Test BPF prologue generation                           : Ok
>   37.3: Test BPF relocation checker                            : Ok
>   38: Test thread map synthesize                               : Ok
>   39: Test cpu map synthesize                                  : Ok
>   40: Test stat config synthesize                              : Ok
>   41: Test stat synthesize                                     : Ok
>   42: Test stat round synthesize                               : Ok
>   43: Test attr update synthesize                              : Ok
>   44: Test events times                                        : Ok
>   45: Test backward reading from ring buffer                   : Ok
>   46: Test cpu map print                                       : Ok
>   47: Test SDT event probing                                   : Ok
>   48: Test is_printable_array function                         : Ok
>   49: Test bitmap print                                        : Ok
>   50: x86 rdpmc test                                           : Ok
>   51: Test converting perf time to TSC                         : Ok
>   52: Test dwarf unwind                                        : Ok
>   53: Test x86 instruction decoder - new instructions          : Ok
>   54: Test intel cqm nmi context read                          : Skip
>   #
> 
>   $ make -C tools/perf build-test
>   make: Entering directory '/home/acme/git/linux/tools/perf'
>                         tarpkg: ./tests/perf-targz-src-pkg .
>                   make_debug_O: make DEBUG=1
>              make_no_libnuma_O: make NO_LIBNUMA=1
>                make_no_slang_O: make NO_SLANG=1
>             make_no_libaudit_O: make NO_LIBAUDIT=1
>               make_no_libbpf_O: make NO_LIBBPF=1
>    make_install_prefix_slash_O: make install prefix=/tmp/krava/
>                    make_tags_O: make tags
>                     make_doc_O: make doc
>            make_no_libunwind_O: make NO_LIBUNWIND=1
>             make_install_bin_O: make install-bin
>            make_no_libbionic_O: make NO_LIBBIONIC=1
>         make_with_babeltrace_O: make LIBBABELTRACE=1
>             make_no_demangle_O: make NO_DEMANGLE=1
>                  make_perf_o_O: make perf.o
>             make_no_auxtrace_O: make NO_AUXTRACE=1
>              make_no_scripts_O: make NO_LIBPYTHON=1 NO_LIBPERL=1
>                    make_pure_O: make
>              make_util_map_o_O: make util/map.o
>   make_no_libdw_dwarf_unwind_O: make NO_LIBDW_DWARF_UNWIND=1
>                 make_no_newt_O: make NO_NEWT=1
>            make_no_libpython_O: make NO_LIBPYTHON=1
>        make_util_pmu_bison_o_O: make util/pmu-bison.o
>                    make_help_O: make help
>          make_install_prefix_O: make install prefix=/tmp/krava
>                  make_static_O: make LDFLAGS=-static
>                   make_no_ui_O: make NO_NEWT=1 NO_SLANG=1 NO_GTK2=1
>            make_no_backtrace_O: make NO_BACKTRACE=1
>               make_clean_all_O: make clean all
>                 make_install_O: make install
>               make_no_libelf_O: make NO_LIBELF=1
>              make_no_libperl_O: make NO_LIBPERL=1
>                 make_no_gtk2_O: make NO_GTK2=1
>                 make_minimal_O: make NO_LIBPERL=1 NO_LIBPYTHON=1 NO_NEWT=1 NO_GTK2=1 NO_DEMANGLE=1 NO_LIBELF=1 NO_LIBUNWIND=1 NO_BACKTRACE=1 NO_LIBNUMA=1 NO_LIBAUDIT=1 NO_LIBBIONIC=1 NO_LIBDW_DWARF_UNWIND=1 NO_AUXTRACE=1 NO_LIBBPF=1 NO_LIBCRYPTO=1 NO_SDT=1
>   OK
>   make: Leaving directory '/home/acme/git/linux/tools/perf'
>   $

Pulled, thanks a lot Arnaldo!

	Ingo