perf/core improvements and fixes:
- Fix wrong jump arrow in systems with branch records with cycles,
i.e. Intel's >= Skylake (Jin Yao)
- Fix 'perf record --per-thread' problem introduced when
implementing 'perf stat --per-thread (Jin Yao)
- Use arch__compare_symbol_names() to fix 'perf test vmlinux',
that was using strcmp(symbol names) while the dso routines
doing symbol lookups used the arch overridable one, making
this test fail in architectures that overrided that function
with something other than strcmp() (Jiri Olsa)
- Add 'perf script --show-round-event' to display
PERF_RECORD_FINISHED_ROUND entries (Jiri Olsa)
- Fix dwarf unwind for stripped binaries in 'perf test' (Jiri Olsa)
- Use ordered_events for 'perf report --tasks', otherwise we may get
artifacts when PERF_RECORD_FORK gets processed before PERF_RECORD_COMM
(when they got recorded in different CPUs) (Jiri Olsa)
- Add support to display group output for non group events, i.e.
now when one uses 'perf report --group' on a perf.data file
recorded without explicitly grouping events with {} (e.g.
"perf record -e '{cycles,instructions}'" get the same output
that would produce, i.e. see all those non-grouped events in
multiple columns, at the same time (Jiri Olsa)
- Skip non-address kallsyms entries, e.g. '(null)' for !root (Jiri Olsa)
- Kernel maps fixes wrt perf.data(report) versus live system (top)
(Jiri Olsa)
- Fix memory corruption when using 'perf record -j call -g -a <application>'
followed by 'perf report --branch-history' (Jiri Olsa)
- ARM CoreSight fixes (Mathieu Poirier)
- Add inject capability for CoreSight Traces (Robert Waker)
- Update documentation for use of 'perf' + ARM CoreSight (Robert Walker)
- Man pages fixes (Sangwon Hong, Jaecheol Shin)
- Fix some 'perf test' cases on s/390 and x86_64 (some backtraces
changed with a glibc update) (Thomas Richter)
- Add detailed CPUID info in the 'perf.data' headers for s/390 to
then use it in 'perf annotate' (Thomas Richter)
- Add '--interval-count N' to 'perf stat', to use with -I, i.e.
'perf stat -I 1000 --interval-count 2' will show stats every
1000ms, two times (yuzhoujian)
- Add 'perf stat --timeout Nms', that will run for that many
milliseconds and then stop, printing the counters (yuzhoujian)
- Fix description for 'perf report --mem-modex (Andi Kleen)
- Use a wildcard to remove the vfs_getname probe in the
'perf test' shell based test cases (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
perf tests shell lib: Use a wildcard to remove the vfs_getname probe
In some situations the vfs_getname is being added both as requested and
with a _1 suffix (inlines?):
probe:vfs_getname_1 (on getname_flags:63@acme/git/linux/fs/namei.c with pathname)
This ends up making the cleanup to miss that one, as it removes just
'probe:vfs_getname', which makes the second test to use this probe point
to fail, since it finds that leftover from the first test, use a
wildcard to remove both.
Before:
# perf test 60 61 62 63
60: Use vfs_getname probe to get syscall args filenames : FAILED!
61: probe libc's inet_pton & backtrace it with ping : Ok
62: Check open filename arg using perf trace + vfs_getname: FAILED!
63: Add vfs_getname probe to get syscall args filenames : Ok
After:
# perf test 60 61 62 63
60: Use vfs_getname probe to get syscall args filenames : Ok
61: probe libc's inet_pton & backtrace it with ping : Ok
62: Check open filename arg using perf trace + vfs_getname: Ok
63: Add vfs_getname probe to get syscall args filenames : Ok
#
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Richter <tmricht@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-2k5kutwr4ds36adiakyb4yvy@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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