Re: [GIT PULL 00/12] perf/core improvements and fixes

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>]

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

> From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
> 
> Hi Ingo,
> 
> 	Please consider pulling,
> 
> - Arnaldo
> 
> The following changes since commit 7e74efcf76c16f851df5c838c143c4a1865ea9fa:
> 
>   Merge tag 'perf-core-for-mingo' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux into perf/core (2014-02-22 17:26:24 +0100)
> 
> are available in the git repository at:
> 
> 
>   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux tags/perf-core-for-mingo
> 
> for you to fetch changes up to 1029f9fedf87fa6f52096991588fa54ffd159584:
> 
>   perf symbols: Check compatible symtab type before loading dso (2014-02-24 16:25:01 -0300)
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> perf/core improvements and fixes
> 
> . Add support for the new DWARF unwinder library in elfutils (Jiri Olsa)
> 
> . Fix build race in the generation of bison files (Jiri Olsa)
> 
> . Further streamline the feature detection display, trimming it a bit to
>   show just the libraries detected, using VF=1 gets a more verbose output,
>   showing the less interesting feature checks as well (Jiri Olsa).
> 
> . Check compatible symtab type before loading dso (Namhyung Kim)
> 
> . Check return value of filename__read_debuglink() (Stephane Eranian)
> 
> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo (1):
>       perf tools: Warn the user about how to enable libunwind support
> 
> Jiri Olsa (9):
>       perf tests: Fix *.o make tests
>       perf tests: Add pmu-bison.o make test
>       perf tools: Fix bison OUTPUT directories dependency
>       perf tools: Factor features display code
>       perf tools: Add variable display for VF make output
>       perf tools: Add feature check for libdw dwarf unwind
>       perf tools: Add libdw DWARF post unwind support
>       perf tools: Setup default dwarf post unwinder
>       perf tests: Add NO_LIBDW_DWARF_UNWIND make test
> 
> Namhyung Kim (1):
>       perf symbols: Check compatible symtab type before loading dso
> 
> Stephane Eranian (1):
>       perf symbols: Check return value of filename__read_debuglink()
> 
>  tools/perf/Makefile.perf                           |  24 ++-
>  tools/perf/arch/x86/Makefile                       |   5 +
>  tools/perf/arch/x86/util/unwind-libdw.c            |  51 +++++
>  tools/perf/config/Makefile                         | 232 +++++++++++++++------
>  tools/perf/config/feature-checks/Makefile          |   6 +-
>  tools/perf/config/feature-checks/test-all.c        |   5 +
>  .../feature-checks/test-libdw-dwarf-unwind.c       |  13 ++
>  tools/perf/tests/make                              |  25 ++-
>  tools/perf/util/dso.c                              |   4 +-
>  tools/perf/util/symbol-elf.c                       |   2 +
>  tools/perf/util/symbol.c                           |  61 +++++-
>  tools/perf/util/unwind-libdw.c                     | 210 +++++++++++++++++++
>  tools/perf/util/unwind-libdw.h                     |  21 ++
>  13 files changed, 569 insertions(+), 90 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 tools/perf/arch/x86/util/unwind-libdw.c
>  create mode 100644 tools/perf/config/feature-checks/test-libdw-dwarf-unwind.c
>  create mode 100644 tools/perf/util/unwind-libdw.c
>  create mode 100644 tools/perf/util/unwind-libdw.h

Pulled, thanks a lot Arnaldo!

Btw., the build output looks weird now - on a system that used to pass 
all feature tests there's this output:

  BUILD:   Doing 'make -j12' parallel build
config/Makefile:288: No libdw DWARF unwind found, Please install 
elfutils-devel/libdw-dev >= 0.158 and/or set LIBDW_DIR

Auto-detecting system features:
...                         dwarf: [ on  ]
...                         glibc: [ on  ]
...                          gtk2: [ on  ]
...                      libaudit: [ on  ]
...                        libbfd: [ on  ]
...                        libelf: [ on  ]
...                       libnuma: [ on  ]
...                       libperl: [ on  ]
...                     libpython: [ on  ]
...                      libslang: [ on  ]
...                     libunwind: [ on  ]
...            libdw-dwarf-unwind: [ OFF ]
...     DWARF post unwind library: libunwind

but:

   Package elfutils-devel-0.156-5.fc19.x86_64 already installed and latest version

Also, the information content of this line is unclear to me:

...     DWARF post unwind library: libunwind


what does that line want to tell?

Thanks,

	Ingo