[GIT PULL 0/3] perf/urgent fixes

From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Date: Wed Feb 03 2016 - 12:04:25 EST


Hi Ingo,

Please consider pulling,

- Arnaldo

The following changes since commit 28fb8a5b6e233fc384fb27f9f91f811b40ba9cf8:

Merge tag 'perf-urgent-for-mingo' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux into perf/urgent (2016-01-30 09:15:49 +0100)

are available in the git repository at:

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux.git tags/perf-urgent-for-mingo

for you to fetch changes up to 270bde1e76f400d81f8d0ab68905a18ee17fa2e8:

perf probe: Search both .eh_frame and .debug_frame sections for probe location (2016-02-02 13:30:16 -0300)

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perf/urgent fixes:

- tracepoint_error() can receive e=NULL, robustify it, fixes a problem noticed
with a very specific combination: Machine with Intel PT (e.g. Broadwell),
kernel with no perf_event_attr.context_switch feature (e.g. 4.2) and unreadable
tracefs (for instance !root users), making the fallback from
perf_event_attr.context_switch to the sched:sched_switch tracepoint to fail
reading its info from tracefs, fix it. (Adrian Hunter)

- Fix segfault in intel pt, by making it follow the 'struct thread' lifetime cycle
checking expectations, noticed for instance, when processing perf.data files with
Intel PT data using 'perf script' and when exiting 'perf report' (Adrian Hunter)

- Fix CFI usage from .eh_frame and .debug_frame, which sometimes requires that we
fallback from .eh_frame to .debug_frame in architectures such as PowerPC (Hemant Kumar)

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>

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Adrian Hunter (2):
perf tools: tracepoint_error() can receive e=NULL, robustify it
perf tools: Fix thread lifetime related segfaut in intel_pt

Hemant Kumar (1):
perf probe: Search both .eh_frame and .debug_frame sections for probe location

tools/perf/util/intel-pt.c | 9 ++++++
tools/perf/util/parse-events.c | 3 ++
tools/perf/util/probe-finder.c | 62 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------
tools/perf/util/probe-finder.h | 5 +++-
4 files changed, 53 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-)