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Message-ID: <20180306063517.47az4nz7el3jp4we@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2018 07:35:17 +0100
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
To: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-perf-users@...r.kernel.org,
Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@...el.com>,
Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com>,
Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>,
David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>, Jin Yao <yao.jin@...el.com>,
Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>, Kan Liang <kan.liang@...el.com>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
Sangwon Hong <qpakzk@...il.com>,
Taeung Song <treeze.taeung@...il.com>,
Wang Nan <wangnan0@...wei.com>,
weiping zhang <zhangweiping@...ichuxing.com>,
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL 00/28] perf/core improvements and fixes
* Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org> wrote:
> Hi Ingo,
>
> Please consider pulling, I'll cherry pick some into a separate
> perf/urgent pull request, like the jump-to-another-function one, after
> the usual round of tests, but since I've been working on then in my
> perf/core branch, lets flush them now.
>
> - Arnaldo
>
> Test results at the end of this message, as usual.
>
> The following changes since commit ddc4becca1409541c2ebb7ecb99b5cef44cf17e4:
>
> Merge tag 'perf-core-for-mingo-4.17-20180220' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux into perf/core (2018-02-21 08:50:45 +0100)
>
> are available in the Git repository at:
>
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux.git tags/perf-core-for-mingo-4.17-20180305
>
> for you to fetch changes up to 6afad54d2f0ddebacfcf3b829147d7fed8dab298:
>
> perf mmap: Discard legacy interfaces for mmap read forward (2018-03-05 10:51:10 -0300)
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> perf/core improvements and fixes:
>
> - Be more robust when drawing arrows in the annotation TUI, avoiding a
> segfault when jump instructions have as a target addresses in functions
> other that the one currently being annotated. The full fix will come in
> the following days, when jumping to other functions will work as call
> instructions (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
>
> - Allow asking for the maximum allowed sample rate in 'top' and
> 'record', i.e. 'perf record -F max' will read the
> kernel.perf_event_max_sample_rate sysctl and use it (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
>
> - When the user specifies a freq above kernel.perf_event_max_sample_rate,
> Throttle it down to that max freq, and warn the user about it, add as
> well --strict-freq so that the previous behaviour of not starting the
> session when the desired freq can't be used can be selected (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
>
> - Find 'call' instruction target symbol at parsing time, used so far in
> the TUI, part of the infrastructure changes that will end up allowing
> for jumps to navigate to other functions, just like 'call'
> instructions. (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
>
> - Use xyarray dimensions to iterate fds in 'perf stat' (Andi Kleen)
>
> - Ignore threads for which the current user hasn't permissions when
> enabling system-wide --per-thread (Jin Yao)
>
> - Fix some backtrace perf test cases to use 'perf record' + 'perf script'
> instead, till 'perf trace' starts using ordered_events or equivalent
> to avoid symbol resolving artifacts due to reordering of
> PERF_RECORD_MMAP events (Jiri Olsa)
>
> - Fix crash in 'perf record' pipe mode, it needs to allocate the ID
> array even for a single event, unlike non-pipe mode (Jiri Olsa)
>
> - Make annoying fallback message on older kernels with newer 'perf top'
> binaries trying to use overwrite mode and that not being present
> in the older kernels (Kan Liang)
>
> - Switch last users of old APIs to the newer perf_mmap__read_event()
> one, then discard those old mmap read forward APIs (Kan Liang)
>
> - Fix the usage on the 'perf kallsyms' man page (Sangwon Hong)
>
> - Simplify cgroup arguments when tracking multiple events (weiping zhang)
>
> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> Andi Kleen (1):
> perf stat: Use xyarray dimensions to iterate fds
>
> Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo (6):
> perf annotate browser: Be more robust when drawing jump arrows
> perf record: Allow asking for the maximum allowed sample rate
> perf top browser: Show sample_freq in browser title line
> perf top: Allow asking for the maximum allowed sample rate
> perf record: Throttle user defined frequencies to the maximum allowed
> perf annotate: Find 'call' instruction target symbol at parsing time
>
> Jin Yao (1):
> perf stat: Ignore error thread when enabling system-wide --per-thread
>
> Jiri Olsa (3):
> perf tests: Switch trace+probe_libc_inet_pton to use record
> perf tests: Rename trace+probe_libc_inet_pton to record+probe_libc_inet_pton
> perf record: Fix crash in pipe mode
>
> Kan Liang (15):
> perf top: Fix annoying fallback message on older kernels
> perf kvm: Switch to new perf_mmap__read_event() interface
> perf trace: Switch to new perf_mmap__read_event() interface
> perf python: Switch to new perf_mmap__read_event() interface
> perf test: Switch to new perf_mmap__read_event() interface for bpf
> perf test: Switch to new perf_mmap__read_event() interface for 'code reading' test
> perf test: Switch to new perf_mmap__read_event() interface for "keep tracking" test
> perf test: Switch to new perf_mmap__read_event() interface for mmap-basic
> perf test: Switch to new perf_mmap__read_event() interface for tp fields
> perf test: Switch to new perf_mmap__read_event() interface for perf-record
> perf test: Switch to new perf_mmap__read_event() interface for time-to-tsc
> perf test: Switch to new perf_mmap__read_event() interface for sw-clock
> perf test: Switch to new perf_mmap__read_event() interface for switch-tracking
> perf test: Switch to new perf_mmap__read_event() interface for task-exit
> perf mmap: Discard legacy interfaces for mmap read forward
>
> Sangwon Hong (1):
> perf kallsyms: Fix the usage on the man page
>
> weiping zhang (1):
> perf cgroup: Simplify arguments when tracking multiple events
>
> tools/perf/Documentation/perf-kallsyms.txt | 2 +-
> tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt | 15 ++++++-
> tools/perf/Documentation/perf-stat.txt | 6 ++-
> tools/perf/Documentation/perf-top.txt | 4 +-
> tools/perf/arch/x86/tests/perf-time-to-tsc.c | 11 ++++-
> tools/perf/builtin-kvm.c | 17 ++++++--
> tools/perf/builtin-record.c | 18 +++++++-
> tools/perf/builtin-stat.c | 25 ++++++++---
> tools/perf/builtin-top.c | 6 ++-
> tools/perf/builtin-trace.c | 11 ++++-
> tools/perf/perf.h | 4 ++
> tools/perf/tests/bpf.c | 9 +++-
> tools/perf/tests/code-reading.c | 11 ++++-
> tools/perf/tests/keep-tracking.c | 10 ++++-
> tools/perf/tests/mmap-basic.c | 12 ++++-
> tools/perf/tests/openat-syscall-tp-fields.c | 11 ++++-
> tools/perf/tests/perf-record.c | 11 ++++-
> ...inet_pton.sh => record+probe_libc_inet_pton.sh} | 30 ++++++-------
> tools/perf/tests/sw-clock.c | 12 ++++-
> tools/perf/tests/switch-tracking.c | 11 ++++-
> tools/perf/tests/task-exit.c | 12 ++++-
> tools/perf/ui/browsers/annotate.c | 42 +++++++++++++-----
> tools/perf/ui/browsers/hists.c | 10 +++--
> tools/perf/util/annotate.c | 38 ++++++++--------
> tools/perf/util/annotate.h | 1 +
> tools/perf/util/cgroup.c | 17 +++++++-
> tools/perf/util/evlist.c | 25 +----------
> tools/perf/util/evlist.h | 4 --
> tools/perf/util/evsel.c | 3 ++
> tools/perf/util/mmap.c | 21 +--------
> tools/perf/util/python.c | 12 +++--
> tools/perf/util/record.c | 51 +++++++++++++++++++---
> tools/perf/util/thread_map.c | 1 +
> tools/perf/util/thread_map.h | 1 +
> 34 files changed, 328 insertions(+), 146 deletions(-)
> rename tools/perf/tests/shell/{trace+probe_libc_inet_pton.sh => record+probe_libc_inet_pton.sh} (61%)
Pulled, thanks a lot Arnaldo!
Ingo
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