[PATCH tip/perf/core 0/7] namespace tracing improvements

[Krister Johansen]

This patch set is similar to a set of features I implemented for bcc
back in April.  At a high-level it does the following:

- Allow the tracing tools to resolve symbols if the traced process has a
  binary that is in a different mount namespace from perf.

- Allow the perf-<pid>.map files to live either in /tmp in the target
  process' mount namespace, or the tracing process's /tmp in its own
  mount namespace.

- Adds the ability to set and record against uprobes and USDT probes
  when the target process resides in a different mount namespace.

With these changes I can get pretty good insight into what containerized
processes on my systems are doing.  In addition to the above, I also
modified the builid cache code to cache relevant bits from the target
namespaces so that it's possible to preserve more information should a
container exit and take the mounted volumes along with it.

-K

Krister Johansen (7):
  perf symbols: find symbols in different mount namespace
  perf maps: lookup maps in both intitial mountns and inner mountns.
  perf probe: allow placing uprobes in alternate namespaces.
  perf buildid-cache: support binary objects from other namespaces
  perf top: support lookup of symbols in other mount namespaces.
  perf documentation: updates for target-ns.
  perf buildid-cache: cache debuginfo

 tools/perf/Documentation/perf-buildid-cache.txt |   5 +
 tools/perf/Documentation/perf-probe.txt         |   5 +
 tools/perf/Documentation/perf-top.txt           |   4 +
 tools/perf/builtin-buildid-cache.c              |  54 +++++--
 tools/perf/builtin-probe.c                      |  46 +++++-
 tools/perf/builtin-top.c                        |  15 ++
 tools/perf/tests/sdt.c                          |   4 +-
 tools/perf/util/annotate.c                      |   2 +-
 tools/perf/util/build-id.c                      | 120 +++++++++++---
 tools/perf/util/build-id.h                      |  12 +-
 tools/perf/util/dso.c                           |  21 ++-
 tools/perf/util/dso.h                           |   3 +
 tools/perf/util/machine.c                       |  22 ++-
 tools/perf/util/map.c                           |  29 +++-
 tools/perf/util/map.h                           |   8 +-
 tools/perf/util/namespaces.c                    | 198 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
 tools/perf/util/namespaces.h                    |  36 +++++
 tools/perf/util/parse-events.c                  |   2 +-
 tools/perf/util/probe-event.c                   |  85 ++++++----
 tools/perf/util/probe-event.h                   |  10 +-
 tools/perf/util/probe-file.c                    |  19 ++-
 tools/perf/util/probe-file.h                    |   4 +-
 tools/perf/util/symbol.c                        |  93 +++++++++--
 tools/perf/util/thread.c                        |   3 +
 tools/perf/util/thread.h                        |   1 +
 tools/perf/util/util.c                          |  34 +++-
 tools/perf/util/util.h                          |   2 +
 27 files changed, 706 insertions(+), 131 deletions(-)

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