perf/core improvements and fixes:
New feature:
- Introduce the 'delta-abs' 'perf diff' compute method, that orders the
histogram entries by the absolute value of the percentage delta for a
function in two perf.data files, i.e. the functions that changed the
most (increase or decrease in samples) comes first (Namhyung Kim)
User visible:
- Improve message about tweaking the kernel.perf_event_paranoid setting,
telling how to make the change permanent by editing /etc/sysctl.conf
(Ingo Molnar)
Infrastructure:
- Introduce linux/compiler-gcc.h as a counterpart to the kernel's,
initially containing the definition of __fallthrough, more to
come (__maybe_unused, etc) (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
- Fixes for problems uncovered by building tools/perf with clang, such
as always true tests of arrays against NULL and variables that sometimes
were used without being initialized (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo, Steven Rostedt)
- Before loading a new ELF, clear global variables set by the
samples/bpf loader (Mickaël Salaün)
- Ignore already processed ELF sections in the samples/bpf
loader (Mickaël Salaün)
- Fix compile error in the scripting code with some perl5
versions (Wang YanQing)
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
samples/bpf: Reset global variables
Before loading a new ELF, clean previous kernel version, license and
processed sections.
Signed-off-by: Mickaël Salaün <mic@digikod.net>
Acked-by: Joe Stringer <joe@ovn.org>
Acked-by: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@fb.com>
Cc: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170208202744.16274-3-mic@digikod.net
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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