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Date:   Mon, 5 Sep 2016 15:16:46 +0200
From:   Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
To:     Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@...el.com>,
        Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com>,
        Anton Blanchard <anton@...ba.org>,
        David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>,
        Hemant Kumar <hemant@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>,
        Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>,
        Michael Petlan <mpetlan@...hat.com>,
        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>,
        Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Shawn Lin <shawn.lin@...k-chips.com>,
        Wang Nan <wangnan0@...wei.com>,
        Yauheni Kaliuta <yauheni.kaliuta@...hat.com>,
        Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL 00/19] perf/core improvements and fixes


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

> Hi Ingo,
> 
> 	Please consider pulling,
> 
> - Arnaldo
> 
> The following changes since commit 36e674a05164cdbb9d4a5b1b0b279fabae6c13bd:
> 
>   Merge tag 'perf-core-for-mingo-20160823' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux into perf/core (2016-08-24 11:08:10 +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-20160901
> 
> for you to fetch changes up to 6243b9dc4c991fe8bdc53a0e029908aef3ddb101:
> 
>   perf probe: Move dwarf specific functions to dwarf-aux.c (2016-09-01 12:42:26 -0300)
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> perf/core improvements and fixes:
> 
> User visible:
> 
> - Support generating cross arch probes, i.e. if you specify a vmlinux
>   file for different arch than the one in the host machine,
> 
> 	 $ perf probe --definition function_name args
> 
>   will generate the probe definition string needed to append to the
>   target machine /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/kprobes_events file, using
>   scripting (Masami Hiramatsu).
> 
> - Make 'perf probe' skip the function prologue in uprobes if program
>   compiled without optimization, using the same strategy as gdb and
>   systemtap uses, fixing a bug where:
> 
> 	$ perf probe -x ./test 'foo i'
> 
>   When 'foo(42)' was used on the "./test" executable would produce i=0
>   instead of the expected i=42 (Ravi Bangoria)
> 
> - Demangle symbols for synthesized @plt entries too (Millian Wolff)
> 
> Documentation:
> 
> - Show default report configuration in 'perf config' example
>   and docs (Millian Wolff)
> 
> Infrastructure:
> 
> - Make 'perf test vmlinux' tolerate the symbol aliasing pruning done when
>   loading kallsyms and vmlinux (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
> 
> - Improve output of 'perf test vmlinux' test, to help identify on the verbose
>   output which lines are warning and which are errors (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
> 
> - Prep work to stop having to pass symbol_filter_t to lots of functions,
>   simplifying symtab loading routines (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
> 
> - Honor symbol_conf.allow_aliases when loading kallsyms as well, it was using
>   it only when loading vmlinux files (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
> 
> - Fixup symbol->end before doing alias pruning when loading symbol tables
>   (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
> 
> - Fix error handling of lzma kernel module decompression (Shawn Lin)
> 
> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo (8):
>       perf annotate: Initialize the priv are in symbol__new()
>       perf symbols: Rename ->ignore to ->idle
>       perf probe: Do not use map_load filters for function
>       perf test vmlinux: Clarify which -v lines are errors or warning
>       perf test vmlinux: Avoid printing headers for empty lists
>       perf test vmlinux: Tolerate symbol aliases
>       perf symbols: Check symbol_conf.allow_aliases for kallsyms loading too
>       perf symbols: Fixup symbol sizes before picking best ones
> 
> Masami Hiramatsu (5):
>       perf probe: Remove unused tracing_dir variable
>       perf probe: Show trace event definition
>       perf probe: Ignore vmlinux buildid if offline kernel is given
>       perf probe: Support probing on offline cross-arch binary
>       perf probe: Ignore vmlinux Build-id when offline vmlinux given
> 
> Milian Wolff (2):
>       perf symbols: Demangle symbols for synthesized @plt entries.
>       perf config: Show default report configuration in example and docs
> 
> Ravi Bangoria (3):
>       perf probe: Add helper function to check if probe with variable
>       perf uprobe: Skip prologue if program compiled without optimization
>       perf probe: Move dwarf specific functions to dwarf-aux.c
> 
> Shawn Lin (1):
>       perf tools: Fix error handling of lzma decompression
> 
>  tools/perf/Documentation/perf-config.txt           |   8 +
>  tools/perf/Documentation/perf-probe.txt            |   9 ++
>  tools/perf/Documentation/perfconfig.example        |   9 ++
>  tools/perf/arch/arm/include/dwarf-regs-table.h     |   9 ++
>  tools/perf/arch/arm64/include/dwarf-regs-table.h   |  13 ++
>  tools/perf/arch/powerpc/include/dwarf-regs-table.h |  27 ++++
>  tools/perf/arch/s390/include/dwarf-regs-table.h    |   8 +
>  tools/perf/arch/sh/include/dwarf-regs-table.h      |  25 +++
>  tools/perf/arch/sparc/include/dwarf-regs-table.h   |  18 +++
>  tools/perf/arch/x86/include/dwarf-regs-table.h     |  14 ++
>  tools/perf/arch/xtensa/include/dwarf-regs-table.h  |   8 +
>  tools/perf/builtin-annotate.c                      |   7 +-
>  tools/perf/builtin-probe.c                         |  35 +++-
>  tools/perf/builtin-report.c                        |   6 +-
>  tools/perf/builtin-top.c                           |   8 +-
>  tools/perf/tests/vmlinux-kallsyms.c                |  44 +++--
>  tools/perf/util/Build                              |   1 +
>  tools/perf/util/annotate.c                         |   7 -
>  tools/perf/util/annotate.h                         |   1 -
>  tools/perf/util/dwarf-aux.c                        | 179 +++++++++++++++++++++
>  tools/perf/util/dwarf-aux.h                        |   8 +
>  tools/perf/util/dwarf-regs.c                       |  59 +++++++
>  tools/perf/util/evsel_fprintf.c                    |   4 +-
>  tools/perf/util/include/dwarf-regs.h               |   6 +
>  tools/perf/util/lzma.c                             |  15 +-
>  tools/perf/util/probe-event.c                      | 101 +++++++++---
>  tools/perf/util/probe-event.h                      |   3 +
>  tools/perf/util/probe-file.c                       |   5 +-
>  tools/perf/util/probe-finder.c                     |  60 +++++--
>  tools/perf/util/probe-finder.h                     |   1 +
>  tools/perf/util/symbol-elf.c                       |  86 ++++++----
>  tools/perf/util/symbol.c                           |  30 +++-
>  tools/perf/util/symbol.h                           |   5 +-
>  33 files changed, 698 insertions(+), 121 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 tools/perf/arch/arm/include/dwarf-regs-table.h
>  create mode 100644 tools/perf/arch/arm64/include/dwarf-regs-table.h
>  create mode 100644 tools/perf/arch/powerpc/include/dwarf-regs-table.h
>  create mode 100644 tools/perf/arch/s390/include/dwarf-regs-table.h
>  create mode 100644 tools/perf/arch/sh/include/dwarf-regs-table.h
>  create mode 100644 tools/perf/arch/sparc/include/dwarf-regs-table.h
>  create mode 100644 tools/perf/arch/x86/include/dwarf-regs-table.h
>  create mode 100644 tools/perf/arch/xtensa/include/dwarf-regs-table.h
>  create mode 100644 tools/perf/util/dwarf-regs.c
> 
> Build stats:
> 
>   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 fedora:20: Ok
>  10 fedora:21: Ok
>  11 fedora:22: Ok
>  12 fedora:23: Ok
>  13 fedora:24: Ok
>  14 fedora:24-x-ARC-uClibc: Ok
>  15 fedora:rawhide: Ok
>  16 mageia:5: Ok
>  17 opensuse:13.2: Ok
>  18 opensuse:42.1: Ok
>  19 opensuse:tumbleweed: Ok
>  20 ubuntu:12.04.5: Ok
>  21 ubuntu:14.04.4: Ok
>  22 ubuntu:15.10: Ok
>  23 ubuntu:16.04: Ok
>  24 ubuntu:16.04-x-arm: Ok
>  25 ubuntu:16.04-x-arm64: Ok
>  26 ubuntu:16.04-x-powerpc64: Ok
>  27 ubuntu:16.04-x-powerpc64el: Ok
>  28 ubuntu:16.10: Ok
>  29 ubuntu:16.10-x-s390: Ok

Pulled, thanks a lot Arnaldo!

	Ingo

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