perf/core improvements and fixes:

User visible:

- Recording 'dwarf' callchains do not need DWARF unwinding support (He Kuang)

- Print recently added perf_event_attr.write_backward bit flag in -vv
  verbose mode (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)

- Fix incorrect python db-export error message in 'perf script' (Chris Phlipot)

- Fix handling of zero-length symbols (Chris Phlipot)

Andi Kleen (1):
  perf stat: Scale values by unit before metrics

Infrastructure:

- Rewrite strbuf not to die(), making tools using it to check its
  return value instead (Masami Hiramatsu)

- Support reading from backward ring buffer, add a 'perf test' entry
  for it (Wang Nan)

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
perf tools: Remove xrealloc and ALLOC_GROW

Remove unused xrealloc() and ALLOC_GROW() from libperf.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160510054801.6158.6204.stgit@devbox
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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