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Date:	Wed, 27 Apr 2016 17:03:29 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
To:	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>,
	Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@...el.com>,
	Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com>,
	Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>,
	Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>,
	Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@...tuozzo.com>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>,
	Brendan Gregg <brendan.d.gregg@...il.com>,
	Chris Phlipot <cphlipot0@...il.com>,
	Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>,
	David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>,
	Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@...e.de>,
	Eric Engestrom <eric.engestrom@...tec.com>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	He Kuang <hekuang@...wei.com>,
	Hemant Kumar <hemant@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Hitoshi Mitake <mitake@....info.waseda.ac.jp>,
	Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>, Kan Liang <kan.liang@...el.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>,
	Milian Wolff <milian.wolff@...b.com>,
	Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>,
	"Naveen N . Rao" <naveen.n.rao@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>, pi3orama@....com,
	Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Stephane Eranian <eranian@...gle.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, TJ <linux@....tj>,
	Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@...ne.edu>,
	Wang Nan <wangnan0@...wei.com>, Zefan Li <lizefan@...wei.com>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL 00/30] perf/core improvements and fixes


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

> From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>
> 
> Hi Ingo,
> 
> 	Please consider pulling,
> 
> - Arnaldo
> 
> The following changes since commit 67d61296ffcc850bffdd4466430cb91e5328f39a:
> 
>   Merge tag 'perf-core-for-mingo-20160419' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux (2016-04-23 14:50:39 +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-20160427
> 
> for you to fetch changes up to 4cb93446c587d56e2a54f4f83113daba2c0b6dee:
> 
>   perf tools: Set the maximum allowed stack from /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_max_stack (2016-04-27 10:29:07 -0300)
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> perf/core improvements and fixes:
> 
> User visible:
> 
> - perf trace --pf maj/min/all works with --call-graph: (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
> 
>   Tracing write syscalls and major page faults with callchains while starting
>   firefox, limiting the stack to 5 frames:
> 
>  # perf trace -e write --pf maj --max-stack 5 firefox
>    589.549 ( 0.014 ms): firefox/15377 write(fd: 4, buf: 0x7fff80acc898, count: 151) = 151
>                                        [0xfaed] (/usr/lib64/libpthread-2.22.so)
>                                        fire_glxtest_process+0x5c (/usr/lib64/firefox/libxul.so)
>                                        InstallGdkErrorHandler+0x41 (/usr/lib64/firefox/libxul.so)
>                                        XREMain::XRE_mainInit+0x12c (/usr/lib64/firefox/libxul.so)
>                                        XREMain::XRE_main+0x1e4 (/usr/lib64/firefox/libxul.so)
>    760.704 ( 0.000 ms): firefox/15332 majfault [gtk_tree_view_accessible_get_type+0x0] => /usr/lib64/libgtk-3.so.0.1800.9@...0850 (x.)
>                                        gtk_tree_view_accessible_get_type+0x0 (/usr/lib64/libgtk-3.so.0.1800.9)
>                                        gtk_tree_view_class_intern_init+0x1a54 (/usr/lib64/libgtk-3.so.0.1800.9)
>                                        g_type_class_ref+0x6dd (/usr/lib64/libgobject-2.0.so.0.4600.2)
>                                        [0x115378] (/usr/lib64/libgnutls.so.30.6.3)
> 
>   This automagically selects "--call-graph dwarf", use "--call-graph fp" on systems
>   where -fno-omit-frame-pointer was used to built the components of interest, to
>   incur in less overhead, or tune "--call-graph dwarf" appropriately, see 'perf record --help'.
> 
> - Allow /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_max_stack, that defaults to the old hard coded value
>   of PERF_MAX_STACK_DEPTH (127), useful for huge callstacks for things like Groovy, Ruby, etc,
>   and also to reduce overhead by limiting it to a smaller value, upcoming work will allow
>   this to be done per-event (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
> 
> - Make 'perf trace --min-stack' be honoured by --pf and --event (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
> 
> - Make 'perf evlist -v' decode perf_event_attr->branch_sample_type (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
> 
>    # perf record --call lbr usleep 1
>    # perf evlist -v
>    cycles:ppp: ... sample_type: IP|TID|TIME|CALLCHAIN|PERIOD|BRANCH_STACK, ...
>             branch_sample_type: USER|CALL_STACK|NO_FLAGS|NO_CYCLES
>    #
> 
> - Clear dummy entry accumulated period, fixing such 'perf top/report' output
>   as: (Kan Liang)
> 
>     4769.98%  0.01%  0.00%  0.01%  tchain_edit  [kernel] [k] update_fast_timekeeper
> 
> - System calls with pid_t arguments gets them augmented with the COMM event
>   more thoroughly:
> 
>   # trace -e perf_event_open perf stat -e cycles -p 15608
>    6.876 ( 0.014 ms): perf_event_open(attr_uptr: 0x2ae20d8, pid: 15608 (hexchat), cpu: -1, group_fd: -1, flags: FD_CLOEXEC) = 3
>    6.882 ( 0.005 ms): perf_event_open(attr_uptr: 0x2ae20d8, pid: 15639 (gmain), cpu: -1, group_fd: -1, flags: FD_CLOEXEC) = 4
>    6.889 ( 0.005 ms): perf_event_open(attr_uptr: 0x2ae20d8, pid: 15640 (gdbus), cpu: -1, group_fd: -1, flags: FD_CLOEXEC) = 5
>                                                             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>    ^C
> 
> - Fix offline module name mismatch issue in 'perf probe' (Ravi Bangoria)
> 
> - Fix module probe issue if no dwarf support in (Ravi Bangoria)
> 
> Assorted fixes:
> 
> - Fix off-by-one in write_buildid() (Andrey Ryabinin)
> 
> - Fix segfault when printing callchains in 'perf script' (Chris Phlipot)
> 
> - Replace assignment with comparison on assert check in 'perf test' entry (Colin Ian King)
> 
> - Fix off-by-one comparison in intel-pt code (Colin Ian King)
> 
> - Close target file on error path in 'perf probe' (Masami Hiramatsu)
> 
> - Set default kprobe group name if not given in 'perf probe' (Masami Hiramatsu)
> 
> - Avoid partial perf_event_header reads (Wang Nan)
> 
> Infrastructure:
> 
> - Update x86's syscall_64.tbl copy, adding preadv2 & pwritev2 (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
> 
> - Make the x86 clean quiet wrt syscall table removal (Jiri Olsa)
> 
> Cleanups:
> 
> - Simplify wrapper for LOCK_PI in 'perf bench futex' (Davidlohr Bueso)
> 
> - Remove duplicate const qualifier (Eric Engestrom)
> 
> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> Andrey Ryabinin (1):
>       perf buildid: Fix off-by-one in write_buildid()
> 
> Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo (14):
>       perf trace: Extract evsel contructor from perf_evlist__add_pgfault
>       perf trace: Make --pf maj/min/all use callchains too
>       perf trace: Make --event honour --min-stack too
>       perf trace: Make --pf honour --min-stack too
>       perf evlist: Decode perf_event_attr->branch_sample_type
>       perf trace: Move perf_flags beautifier to tools/perf/trace/beauty/
>       perf trace: Do not beautify the 'pid' parameter as a simple integer
>       tools lib api fs: Add helper to read string from procfs file
>       perf thread: Introduce method to set comm from /proc/pid/self
>       perf trace: Read thread's COMM from /proc when not set
>       perf tools: Update x86's syscall_64.tbl, adding preadv2 & pwritev2
>       perf bench: Remove one more die() call
>       perf core: Allow setting up max frame stack depth via sysctl
>       perf tools: Set the maximum allowed stack from /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_max_stack
> 
> Chris Phlipot (1):
>       perf script: Fix segfault when printing callchains
> 
> Colin Ian King (2):
>       perf tests: Replace assignment with comparison on assert check
>       perf intel-pt: Fix off-by-one comparison on maximum code
> 
> Davidlohr Bueso (1):
>       perf bench futex: Simplify wrapper for LOCK_PI
> 
> Eric Engestrom (1):
>       perf tools: Remove duplicate const qualifier
> 
> Jiri Olsa (2):
>       perf tools: Make the x86 clean quiet
>       tools build: Fix perf_clean target
> 
> Kan Liang (1):
>       perf hists: Clear dummy entry accumulated period
> 
> Masami Hiramatsu (4):
>       perf probe: Close target file on error path
>       perf tools: Add lsdir() helper to read a directory
>       perf probe: Let probe_file__add_event return 0 if succeeded
>       perf probe: Set default kprobe group name if it is not given
> 
> Ravi Bangoria (2):
>       perf probe: Fix offline module name missmatch issue
>       perf probe: Fix module probe issue if no dwarf support
> 
> Wang Nan (1):
>       perf evlist: Enforce ring buffer reading
> 
>  Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt                    |  14 ++
>  arch/arm/kernel/perf_callchain.c                   |   2 +-
>  arch/arm64/kernel/perf_callchain.c                 |   4 +-
>  arch/metag/kernel/perf_callchain.c                 |   2 +-
>  arch/mips/kernel/perf_event.c                      |   4 +-
>  arch/powerpc/perf/callchain.c                      |   4 +-
>  arch/sparc/kernel/perf_event.c                     |   6 +-
>  arch/x86/events/core.c                             |   4 +-
>  arch/xtensa/kernel/perf_event.c                    |   4 +-
>  include/linux/perf_event.h                         |   8 +-
>  kernel/bpf/stackmap.c                              |   8 +-
>  kernel/events/callchain.c                          |  35 ++++-
>  kernel/sysctl.c                                    |  12 ++
>  tools/Makefile                                     |   3 +-
>  tools/lib/api/fs/fs.c                              |  13 ++
>  tools/lib/api/fs/fs.h                              |   2 +
>  tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt           |   2 +-
>  tools/perf/Documentation/perf-script.txt           |   2 +-
>  tools/perf/Documentation/perf-top.txt              |   2 +-
>  tools/perf/Documentation/perf-trace.txt            |   2 +-
>  tools/perf/arch/x86/Makefile                       |   2 +-
>  tools/perf/arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_64.tbl  |   2 +
>  tools/perf/bench/futex-lock-pi.c                   |   2 +-
>  tools/perf/bench/futex.h                           |   6 +-
>  tools/perf/bench/mem-functions.c                   |  22 ++-
>  tools/perf/builtin-report.c                        |   4 +-
>  tools/perf/builtin-script.c                        |  16 +-
>  tools/perf/builtin-top.c                           |   4 +-
>  tools/perf/builtin-trace.c                         | 174 +++++++++++----------
>  tools/perf/perf.c                                  |   5 +
>  tools/perf/tests/event_update.c                    |   2 +-
>  tools/perf/tests/hists_cumulate.c                  |   2 +-
>  tools/perf/tests/hists_filter.c                    |   2 +-
>  tools/perf/tests/hists_output.c                    |   2 +-
>  tools/perf/trace/beauty/perf_event_open.c          |  43 +++++
>  tools/perf/trace/beauty/pid.c                      |   5 +-
>  tools/perf/util/build-id.c                         |   6 +-
>  tools/perf/util/evlist.c                           |  12 +-
>  tools/perf/util/evsel.c                            |  18 ++-
>  tools/perf/util/hist.c                             |   2 +
>  .../perf/util/intel-pt-decoder/intel-pt-decoder.c  |   2 +-
>  tools/perf/util/machine.c                          |   6 +-
>  tools/perf/util/probe-event.c                      | 114 +++++++++++---
>  tools/perf/util/probe-file.c                       |   3 +-
>  .../perf/util/scripting-engines/trace-event-perl.c |   2 +-
>  tools/perf/util/thread.c                           |  21 ++-
>  tools/perf/util/thread.h                           |   2 +
>  tools/perf/util/util.c                             |  36 +++++
>  tools/perf/util/util.h                             |   4 +
>  49 files changed, 475 insertions(+), 179 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 tools/perf/trace/beauty/perf_event_open.c

Pulled, thanks a lot Arnaldo!

	Ingo

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