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

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>]

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

> Hi Ingo,
> 
> 	Please consider pulling,
> 
> - Arnaldo
> 
> Test results at the end.
> 
> The following changes since commit 91a79e5fa696fa626bfbd47f827eaf3eb7d76dc5:
> 
>   Merge tag 'perf-core-for-mingo-20161028' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux into perf/core (2016-10-28 19:37:34 +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-20161114
> 
> for you to fetch changes up to fef51ecd1056b5e090c9fb73e0833bd751389572:
> 
>   perf report: Show branch info in callchain entry for browser mode (2016-11-14 13:34:08 -0300)
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> perf/core improvements and fixes:
> 
> New features:
> 
> - Allow querying and setting .perfconfig variables (Taeung Song)
> 
> - Show branch information in callchains (predicted, TSX aborts, loop
>   iteractions, etc) (Jin Yao)
> 
> Infrastructure:
> 
> - Support kbuild's CFLAGS_REMOVE_ in tools/build (Jiri Olsa)
> 
> - Plug building jvmti to the main perf Makefile (Jiri Olsa)
> 
> Documentation:
> 
> - Update Intel PT documentation about context switch events (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
> 
> - Fix 'perf record --call-graph dwarf' help/config in builds not linking
>   with a unwind library, mentioning that is a possible record option (Rabin Vincent)
> 
> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo (1):
>       perf intel-pt: Update documentation about context switch events
> 
> Jin Yao (5):
>       perf report: Add branch flag to callchain cursor node
>       perf report: Create a symbol_conf flag for showing branch flag counting
>       perf report: Calculate and return the branch flag counting
>       perf report: Show branch info in callchain entry for stdio mode
>       perf report: Show branch info in callchain entry for browser mode
> 
> Jiri Olsa (4):
>       tools build: Add CFLAGS_REMOVE_* support
>       tools build: Add jvmti feature detection support
>       perf jvmti: Plug compilation into perf build
>       perf kvmti: Remove unused Makefile file
> 
> Rabin Vincent (1):
>       perf callchain: Fixup help/config for no-unwinding
> 
> Taeung Song (4):
>       perf config: Add support for getting config key-value pairs
>       perf config: Validate config variable arguments before trying use them
>       perf config: Add support setting variables in a config file
>       perf config: Mark where are config items from (user or system)
> 
>  tools/build/Build.include                |   4 +-
>  tools/build/Documentation/Build.txt      |   6 +-
>  tools/build/feature/Makefile             |   6 +-
>  tools/build/feature/test-jvmti.c         |  13 ++
>  tools/perf/Documentation/intel-pt.txt    |  19 ++-
>  tools/perf/Documentation/perf-config.txt |  35 ++++++
>  tools/perf/Makefile.config               |  26 ++++
>  tools/perf/Makefile.perf                 |  24 +++-
>  tools/perf/builtin-config.c              | 137 ++++++++++++++++++++-
>  tools/perf/builtin-report.c              |   3 +
>  tools/perf/jvmti/Build                   |   8 ++
>  tools/perf/jvmti/Makefile                |  89 --------------
>  tools/perf/tests/make                    |   2 +-
>  tools/perf/ui/browsers/hists.c           |  20 ++-
>  tools/perf/ui/stdio/hist.c               |  35 +++++-
>  tools/perf/util/callchain.c              | 205 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>  tools/perf/util/callchain.h              |  26 +++-
>  tools/perf/util/config.c                 |  20 +++
>  tools/perf/util/config.h                 |   4 +
>  tools/perf/util/machine.c                |  82 ++++++++++---
>  tools/perf/util/symbol.h                 |   1 +
>  21 files changed, 634 insertions(+), 131 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 tools/build/feature/test-jvmti.c
>  create mode 100644 tools/perf/jvmti/Build
>  delete mode 100644 tools/perf/jvmti/Makefile
> 
>   [root@jouet ~]# 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
>   [root@jouet ~]#
> 
>   [root@zoo ~]# 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
> 
>   real	61m29.498s
>   user	0m3.969s
>   sys	0m3.525s
>   [root@zoo ~]#
> 
>   [acme@jouet linux]$ perf stat make -C tools/perf build-test
>   make: Entering directory '/home/acme/git/linux/tools/perf'
>   - tarpkg: ./tests/perf-targz-src-pkg .
>            make_no_libbionic_O: make NO_LIBBIONIC=1
>               make_no_libbpf_O: make NO_LIBBPF=1
>            make_no_libunwind_O: make NO_LIBUNWIND=1
>                 make_install_O: make install
>             make_no_libaudit_O: make NO_LIBAUDIT=1
>              make_no_libperl_O: make NO_LIBPERL=1
>    make_install_prefix_slash_O: make install prefix=/tmp/krava/
>                 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 NO_JVMTI=1
>               make_clean_all_O: make clean all
>                   make_debug_O: make DEBUG=1
>                 make_no_newt_O: make NO_NEWT=1
>                  make_perf_o_O: make perf.o
>             make_no_demangle_O: make NO_DEMANGLE=1
>                     make_doc_O: make doc
>             make_install_bin_O: make install-bin
>                   make_no_ui_O: make NO_NEWT=1 NO_SLANG=1 NO_GTK2=1
>          make_install_prefix_O: make install prefix=/tmp/krava
>                make_no_slang_O: make NO_SLANG=1
>               make_no_libelf_O: make NO_LIBELF=1
>                  make_static_O: make LDFLAGS=-static
>              make_util_map_o_O: make util/map.o
>         make_with_babeltrace_O: make LIBBABELTRACE=1
>             make_no_auxtrace_O: make NO_AUXTRACE=1
>              make_no_scripts_O: make NO_LIBPYTHON=1 NO_LIBPERL=1
>              make_no_libnuma_O: make NO_LIBNUMA=1
>                    make_pure_O: make
>                    make_help_O: make help
>                 make_no_gtk2_O: make NO_GTK2=1
>            make_no_libpython_O: make NO_LIBPYTHON=1
>            make_no_backtrace_O: make NO_BACKTRACE=1
>                    make_tags_O: make tags
>   make_no_libdw_dwarf_unwind_O: make NO_LIBDW_DWARF_UNWIND=1
>        make_util_pmu_bison_o_O: make util/pmu-bison.o
>   OK
>   make: Leaving directory '/home/acme/git/linux/tools/perf'

Pulled, thanks a lot Arnaldo!

	Ingo