Re: [GIT PULL 00/11] perf/core improvements and fixes

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>]

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

> Hi Ingo,
> 
> 	Please consider pulling, this is on top of the perf-core-for-mingo tag,
> that is outstanding.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> - Arnaldo
> 
> The following changes since commit 0014de172d228e450377d1fd079d94e67128d27f:
> 
>   perf sched latency: Fix thread pid reuse issue (2015-11-05 12:51:00 -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 345c99a303e1d97b407bf99190314a878d59ca92:
> 
>   perf test: Do not be case sensitive when searching for matching tests (2015-11-06 17:50:04 -0300)
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> perf/core improvements and fixes:
> 
> - libbpf error reporting improvements, using a strerror interface to
>   more precisely tell the user about problems with the provided
>   scriptlet, be it in C or as a ready made object file (Wang Nan)
> 
> - Do not be case sensitive when searching for matching 'perf test'
>   entries (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
> 
> - Inform the user about objdump failures in 'perf annotate' (Andi Kleen)
> 
> Infrastructure:
> 
> - Improve the LLVM 'perf test' entry, introduce new ones for
>   BPF and kbuild to check the environment used by clang to
>   compile .c scriptlets (Wang Nan)
> 
> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> Andi Kleen (1):
>       perf annotate: Inform the user about objdump failures in --stdio
> 
> Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo (1):
>       perf test: Do not be case sensitive when searching for matching tests
> 
> Jiri Olsa (1):
>       perf stat: Make stat options global
> 
> Masami Hiramatsu (1):
>       perf probe: Cleanup find_perf_probe_point_from_map to reduce redundancy
> 
> Wang Nan (7):
>       bpf tools: Improve libbpf error reporting
>       bpf tools: Add new API bpf_object__get_kversion()
>       perf tools: Make fetch_kernel_version() publicly available
>       perf bpf: Improve BPF related error messages
>       perf test: Enhance the LLVM test: update basic BPF test program
>       perf test: Enhance the LLVM tests: add kbuild test
>       perf test: Add 'perf test BPF'
> 
>  tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c                    | 167 +++++++++++++++++-------
>  tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.h                    |  21 +++
>  tools/perf/builtin-stat.c                 | 163 +++++++++++------------
>  tools/perf/tests/Build                    |  17 ++-
>  tools/perf/tests/bpf-script-example.c     |   4 +
>  tools/perf/tests/bpf-script-test-kbuild.c |  21 +++
>  tools/perf/tests/bpf.c                    | 209 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  tools/perf/tests/builtin-test.c           |   6 +-
>  tools/perf/tests/llvm.c                   | 137 +++++++++++++++-----
>  tools/perf/tests/llvm.h                   |  18 +++
>  tools/perf/tests/tests.h                  |   1 +
>  tools/perf/util/annotate.c                |  20 ++-
>  tools/perf/util/bpf-loader.c              | 139 +++++++++++++++++---
>  tools/perf/util/bpf-loader.h              |  33 +++++
>  tools/perf/util/llvm-utils.c              |  49 +++----
>  tools/perf/util/parse-events.c            |  11 +-
>  tools/perf/util/probe-event.c             |   7 +-
>  tools/perf/util/util.c                    |  30 +++++
>  tools/perf/util/util.h                    |   8 ++
>  19 files changed, 836 insertions(+), 225 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 tools/perf/tests/bpf-script-test-kbuild.c
>  create mode 100644 tools/perf/tests/bpf.c
>  create mode 100644 tools/perf/tests/llvm.h

Pulled into perf/urgent, thanks a lot Arnaldo!

	Ingo