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
> 
> The following changes since commit ea7c28518943b26a85d73cd76acd03b71962cb18:
> 
>   Merge tag 'perf-core-for-mingo-20160506' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux into perf/core (2016-05-07 06:49:28 +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-20160510
> 
> for you to fetch changes up to 452e84012595d681f254a3a0d733fb0b18ffaf42:
> 
>   perf tools: Remove xrealloc and ALLOC_GROW (2016-05-10 11:58:27 -0300)
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> perf/core improvements and fixes:
> 
> User visible:
> 
> - Recording 'dwarf' callchains do not need DWARF unwinding support (He Kuang)
> 
> - Print recently added perf_event_attr.write_backward bit flag in -vv
>   verbose mode (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
> 
> - Fix incorrect python db-export error message in 'perf script' (Chris Phlipot)
> 
> - Fix handling of zero-length symbols (Chris Phlipot)
> 
> Andi Kleen (1):
>   perf stat: Scale values by unit before metrics
> 
> Infrastructure:
> 
> - Rewrite strbuf not to die(), making tools using it to check its
>   return value instead (Masami Hiramatsu)
> 
> - Support reading from backward ring buffer, add a 'perf test' entry
>   for it (Wang Nan)
> 
> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> Andi Kleen (1):
>       perf stat: Scale values by unit before metrics
> 
> Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo (1):
>       perf evsel: Print state of perf_event_attr.write_backward
> 
> Chris Phlipot (2):
>       perf script: Fix incorrect python db-export error message
>       perf symbols: Fix handling of zero-length symbols.
> 
> He Kuang (1):
>       perf callchain: Recording 'dwarf' callchains do not need DWARF unwinding support
> 
> Masami Hiramatsu (8):
>       perf tools: Rewrite strbuf not to die()
>       perf probe: Check the return value of strbuf APIs
>       perf help: Make check_emacsclient_version to check strbuf APIs
>       perf tools: Make alias handler to check return value of strbuf
>       perf header: Make topology checkers to check return value of strbuf
>       perf pmu: Make pmu_formats_string to check return value of strbuf
>       perf help: Do not use ALLOC_GROW in add_cmd_list
>       perf tools: Remove xrealloc and ALLOC_GROW
> 
> Wang Nan (2):
>       perf tools: Support reading from backward ring buffer
>       perf tests: Add test to check backward ring buffer
> 
>  tools/perf/builtin-help.c                          |  18 +--
>  tools/perf/perf.c                                  |   8 +-
>  tools/perf/tests/Build                             |   1 +
>  tools/perf/tests/backward-ring-buffer.c            | 151 +++++++++++++++++++++
>  tools/perf/tests/builtin-test.c                    |   4 +
>  tools/perf/tests/tests.h                           |   1 +
>  tools/perf/util/Build                              |   1 -
>  tools/perf/util/cache.h                            |  19 ---
>  tools/perf/util/dwarf-aux.c                        |  52 ++++---
>  tools/perf/util/evlist.c                           |  50 +++++++
>  tools/perf/util/evlist.h                           |   4 +
>  tools/perf/util/evsel.c                            |   1 +
>  tools/perf/util/header.c                           |  31 +++--
>  tools/perf/util/help-unknown-cmd.c                 |  30 ++--
>  tools/perf/util/pmu.c                              |  10 +-
>  tools/perf/util/probe-event.c                      | 143 +++++++++++--------
>  tools/perf/util/probe-finder.c                     |  30 ++--
>  tools/perf/util/quote.c                            |  36 ++---
>  tools/perf/util/quote.h                            |   2 +-
>  .../util/scripting-engines/trace-event-python.c    |   2 +-
>  tools/perf/util/stat.c                             |   4 +-
>  tools/perf/util/strbuf.c                           |  93 +++++++++----
>  tools/perf/util/strbuf.h                           |  25 ++--
>  tools/perf/util/symbol.c                           |   2 +-
>  tools/perf/util/util.c                             |   2 -
>  tools/perf/util/util.h                             |   6 -
>  tools/perf/util/wrapper.c                          |  29 ----
>  27 files changed, 510 insertions(+), 245 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 tools/perf/tests/backward-ring-buffer.c
>  delete mode 100644 tools/perf/util/wrapper.c

Pulled, thanks a lot Arnaldo!

	Ingo