Re: [GIT PULL 00/11] perf/core improvements and fixes

[Ingo Molnar]

* Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Ingo,
> 
> 	Please consider pulling,
> 
> - Arnaldo
> 
> Build news:
> 
> Now the 16.04-x-armhf and 16.04-x-powerpc64 cross build docker images have libz
> and libelf cross built from sources, so that we can cover cross build testing
> more of the codebase.
> 
> In those images objtool is not built, as checking powerpc and arm binaries is
> not supported, so trying to build it will end up in linker errors.
> 
> Build stats:
> 
>   # perf stat dm
>   alpine:3.4: Ok
>   android-ndk:r12b: Ok
>   centos:5: Ok
>   centos:6: Ok
>   centos:7: Ok
>   debian:7: Ok
>   debian:8: Ok
>   debian:experimental: Ok
>   fedora:21: Ok
>   fedora:22: Ok
>   fedora:23: Ok
>   fedora:24: Ok
>   fedora:rawhide: Ok
>   mageia:5: Ok
>   opensuse:13.2: Ok
>   opensuse:42.1: Ok
>   ubuntu:14.04.4: Ok
>   ubuntu:15.10: Ok
>   ubuntu:16.04: Ok
>   ubuntu:16.04-x-armhf: Ok
>   ubuntu:16.04-x-powerpc64: Ok
> 
>    Performance counter stats for 'dm':
> 
>        1940.152756      task-clock (msec)         #    0.002 CPUs utilized          
>             76,985      context-switches          #    0.040 M/sec                  
>              9,189      cpu-migrations            #    0.005 M/sec                  
>             56,641      page-faults               #    0.029 M/sec                  
>      5,631,722,319      cycles                    #    2.903 GHz                    
>      5,382,953,696      instructions              #    0.96  insn per cycle         
>        998,621,403      branches                  #  514.713 M/sec                  
>         17,532,943      branch-misses             #    1.76% of all branches        
> 
>      817.896638265 seconds time elapsed
> 
>   # 
> 
> The following changes since commit 5048c2af078d5976895d521262a8802ea791f3b0:
> 
>   Merge tag 'perf-core-for-mingo-20160718' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux into perf/core (2016-07-19 08:44:38 +0200)
> 
> are available in the git repository at:
> 
>   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux.git tags/perf-core-for-mingo-20160725
> 
> for you to fetch changes up to 4e3ba8af21b00b91b451e7c4a9fa3a63b025dd56:
> 
>   Revert "perf tools: event.h needs asm/perf_regs.h" (2016-07-25 11:58:56 -0300)
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> perf/core improvements and fixes:
> 
> - Add AVX-512 support to the instruction decoder, used by Intel PT,
>   fix vcvtph2ps instruction decoding (Adrian Hunter)
> 
> - Make objtool and vdso2c use the right arch header search path
>   (Stephen Rothwell, Josh Poimboeuf, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
> 
> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> Adrian Hunter (4):
>       x86/insn: perf tools: Fix vcvtph2ps instruction decoding
>       x86/insn: Add AVX-512 support to the instruction decoder
>       perf tools: Add AVX-512 support to the instruction decoder used by Intel PT
>       perf tools: Add AVX-512 instructions to the new instructions test
> 
> Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo (5):
>       perf tests kmod-path: Fix build on ubuntu:16.04-x-armhf
>       tools build: Add HOSTARCH Makefile variable
>       objtool: Use tools/scripts/Makefile.arch to get ARCH and HOSTARCH
>       objtool: Always use host headers
>       Revert "perf tools: event.h needs asm/perf_regs.h"
> 
> Josh Poimboeuf (1):
>       tools build: Fix objtool build with ARCH=x86_64
> 
> Stephen Rothwell (1):
>       x86: Make the vdso2c compiler use the host architecture headers
> 
>  arch/x86/entry/vdso/Makefile                       |    2 +-
>  arch/x86/include/asm/inat.h                        |   17 +-
>  arch/x86/include/asm/insn.h                        |   12 +-
>  arch/x86/lib/insn.c                                |   18 +-
>  arch/x86/lib/x86-opcode-map.txt                    |  263 ++-
>  arch/x86/tools/gen-insn-attr-x86.awk               |   11 +-
>  tools/objtool/Build                                |    2 +-
>  tools/objtool/Makefile                             |    8 +-
>  tools/perf/arch/x86/tests/insn-x86-dat-32.c        | 1018 ++++++++++-
>  tools/perf/arch/x86/tests/insn-x86-dat-64.c        |  940 +++++++++-
>  tools/perf/arch/x86/tests/insn-x86-dat-src.c       | 1789 ++++++++++++++++++++
>  tools/perf/tests/kmod-path.c                       |    1 +
>  tools/perf/util/event.h                            |    1 -
>  .../util/intel-pt-decoder/gen-insn-attr-x86.awk    |   11 +-
>  tools/perf/util/intel-pt-decoder/inat.h            |   17 +-
>  tools/perf/util/intel-pt-decoder/insn.c            |   18 +-
>  tools/perf/util/intel-pt-decoder/insn.h            |   12 +-
>  .../perf/util/intel-pt-decoder/x86-opcode-map.txt  |  263 ++-
>  tools/scripts/Makefile.arch                        |   41 +-
>  19 files changed, 4221 insertions(+), 223 deletions(-)

Pulled, thanks a lot Arnaldo!

	Ingo