Re: [GIT PULL 00/14] perf/core improvements and fixes

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>]

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

> Hi Ingo,
> 
> 	Please consider pulling, this has those 31 patches that were
> blocked due to some problems (author not being the fist S-o-B, build
> broken on ppc), those issues should all be fixed and then we have 14
> patches more, described in the signed tag.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> - Arnaldo
> 
> Test results at the end of this message, as usual.
> 
> The following changes since commit 10f354a36f9a9aa1b8bffe0abc1cd43822a85bcd:
> 
>   perf test: Fix exit code for record+probe_libc_inet_pton.sh (2018-03-16 13:56:31 -0300)
> 
> are available in the Git repository at:
> 
>   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux.git tags/perf-core-for-mingo-4.17-20180319
> 
> for you to fetch changes up to 1cd618838b9703eabe4a75badf433382b12f6bef:
> 
>   perf tests bp_account: Fix build with clang-6 (2018-03-19 13:51:54 -0300)
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> perf/core improvements and fixes:
> 
> - Fixes for problems experienced with new gcc 8 warnings, that treated
>   as errors, broke the build, related to snprintf and casting issues.
>   (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo, Jiri Olsa, Josh Poinboeuf)
> 
> - Fix build of new breakpoint 'perf test' entry with clang < 6, noticed
>   on fedora 25, 26 and 27 (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
> 
> - Workaround problem with symbol resolution in 'perf annotate', using
>   the symbol name already present in the objdump output (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
> 
> - Document 'perf top --ignore-vmlinux' (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
> 
> - Fix out of bounds access on array fd when cnt is 100 in one of the
>   'perf test' entries, detected using 'cpptest' (Colin Ian King)
> 
> - Add support for the forced leader feature, i.e. 'perf report --group'
>   for a group of events not really grouped when scheduled (without using
>   {} to enclose the list of events in the command line) in pipe mode,
>   e.g.:
> 
>   $ perf record -e cycles,instructions -o - kill | perf report --group -i -
> 
> - Use right type to access array elements in 'perf probe' (Masami Hiramatsu)
> 
> - Update POWER9 vendor events (those described in JSON format) (Sukadev Bhattiprolu)
> 
> - Discard head in overwrite_rb_find_range() (Yisheng Xie)
> 
> - Avoid setting 'quiet' to 'true' unnecessarily (Yisheng Xie)
> 
> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo (4):
>       perf annotate: Use asprintf when formatting objdump command line
>       perf top: Document --ignore-vmlinux
>       perf annotate: Use ops->target.name when available for unresolved call targets
>       perf tests bp_account: Fix build with clang-6
> 
> Colin Ian King (1):
>       perf tests: Fix out of bounds access on array fd when cnt is 100
> 
> Jiri Olsa (4):
>       perf record: Synthesize features before events in pipe mode
>       perf report: Support forced leader feature in pipe mode
>       perf tools: Fix snprint warnings for gcc 8
>       perf tools: Fix python extension build for gcc 8
> 
> Josh Poimboeuf (1):
>       objtool, perf: Fix GCC 8 -Wrestrict error
> 
> Masami Hiramatsu (1):
>       perf probe: Use right type to access array elements
> 
> Sukadev Bhattiprolu (1):
>       perf vendor events: Update POWER9 events
> 
> Yisheng Xie (2):
>       perf mmap: Discard head in overwrite_rb_find_range()
>       perf debug: Avoid setting 'quiet' to 'true' unnecessarily
> 
>  tools/lib/str_error_r.c                            |   2 +-
>  tools/perf/Documentation/perf-top.txt              |   3 +
>  tools/perf/builtin-record.c                        |  18 +-
>  tools/perf/builtin-report.c                        |  57 +++--
>  tools/perf/builtin-script.c                        |  22 +-
>  .../perf/pmu-events/arch/powerpc/power9/cache.json |  25 ---
>  .../pmu-events/arch/powerpc/power9/frontend.json   |  10 -
>  .../pmu-events/arch/powerpc/power9/marked.json     |   5 -
>  .../pmu-events/arch/powerpc/power9/memory.json     |   5 -
>  .../perf/pmu-events/arch/powerpc/power9/other.json | 241 ++++++++++++++-------
>  .../pmu-events/arch/powerpc/power9/pipeline.json   |  50 ++---
>  tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/powerpc/power9/pmc.json |   5 -
>  .../arch/powerpc/power9/translation.json           |  10 +-
>  tools/perf/tests/attr.c                            |   4 +-
>  tools/perf/tests/bp_account.c                      |  10 +-
>  tools/perf/tests/mem.c                             |   2 +-
>  tools/perf/tests/pmu.c                             |   2 +-
>  tools/perf/util/annotate.c                         |  20 +-
>  tools/perf/util/cgroup.c                           |   2 +-
>  tools/perf/util/debug.c                            |   1 -
>  tools/perf/util/header.c                           |  11 +-
>  tools/perf/util/mmap.c                             |  15 +-
>  tools/perf/util/parse-events.c                     |   4 +-
>  tools/perf/util/pmu.c                              |   2 +-
>  tools/perf/util/probe-finder.c                     |  13 +-
>  tools/perf/util/setup.py                           |   2 +
>  26 files changed, 298 insertions(+), 243 deletions(-)

Pulled, thanks a lot Arnaldo!

	Ingo