Re: [GIT PULL 00/21] perf/core improvements and fixes
From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Thu Aug 02 2018 - 12:02:35 EST
* Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Ingo,
>
> Please consider pulling, contains a recently merged
> tip/perf/urgent,
>
> - Arnaldo
>
> Test results at the end of this message, as usual.
>
> The following changes since commit c2586cfbb905939b79b49a9121fb0a59a5668fd6:
>
> Merge remote-tracking branch 'tip/perf/urgent' into perf/core (2018-07-31 09:55:45 -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-4.19-20180801
>
> for you to fetch changes up to b912885ab75c7c8aa841c615108afd755d0b97f8:
>
> perf trace: Do not require --no-syscalls to suppress strace like output (2018-08-01 16:20:28 -0300)
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> perf/core improvements and fixes:
>
> perf trace: (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
>
> - Do not require --no-syscalls to suppress strace like output, i.e.
>
> # perf trace -e sched:*switch
>
> will show just sched:sched_switch events, not strace-like formatted
> syscall events, use --syscalls to get the previous behaviour.
>
> If instead:
>
> # perf trace
>
> is used, i.e. no events specified, then --syscalls is implied and
> system wide strace like formatting will be applied to all syscalls.
>
> The behaviour when just a syscall subset is used with '-e' is unchanged:
>
> # perf trace -e *sleep,sched:*switch
>
> will work as before: just the 'nanosleep' syscall will be strace-like
> formatted plus the sched:sched_switch tracepoint event, system wide.
>
> - Allow string table generators to use a default header dir, allowing
> use of them without parameters to see the table it generates on
> stdout, e.g.:
>
> $ tools/perf/trace/beauty/kvm_ioctl.sh
> static const char *kvm_ioctl_cmds[] = {
> [0x00] = "GET_API_VERSION",
> [0x01] = "CREATE_VM",
> [0x02] = "GET_MSR_INDEX_LIST",
> [0x03] = "CHECK_EXTENSION",
> <BIG SNIP>
> [0xe0] = "CREATE_DEVICE",
> [0xe1] = "SET_DEVICE_ATTR",
> [0xe2] = "GET_DEVICE_ATTR",
> [0xe3] = "HAS_DEVICE_ATTR",
> };
> $
>
> See 'ls tools/perf/trace/beauty/*.sh' to see the available string
> table generators.
>
> - Add a generator for IPPROTO_ socket's protocol constants.
>
> perf record: (Kan Liang)
>
> - Fix error out while applying initial delay and using LBR, due to
> the use of a PERF_TYPE_SOFTWARE/PERF_COUNT_SW_DUMMY event to track
> PERF_RECORD_MMAP events while waiting for the initial delay. Such
> events fail when configured asking PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_STACK in
> perf_event_attr.sample_type.
>
> perf c2c: (Jiri Olsa)
>
> - Fix report crash for empty browser, when processing a perf.data file
> without events of interest, either because not asked for in
> 'perf record' or because the workload didn't triggered such events.
>
> perf list: (Michael Petlan)
>
> - Align metric group description format with PMU event description.
>
> perf tests: (Sandipan Das)
>
> - Fix indexing when invoking subtests, which caused BPF tests to
> get results for the next test in the list, with the last one
> reporting a failure.
>
> eBPF:
>
> - Fix installation directory for header files included from eBPF proggies,
> avoiding clashing with relative paths used to build other software projects
> such as glibc. (Thomas Richter)
>
> - Show better message when failing to load an object. (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
>
> General: (Christophe Leroy)
>
> - Allow overriding MAX_NR_CPUS at compile time, to make the tooling
> usable in systems with less memory, in time this has to be changed
> to properly allocate based on _NPROCESSORS_ONLN.
>
> Architecture specific:
>
> - Update arm64's ThunderX2 implementation defined pmu core events (Ganapatrao Kulkarni)
>
> - Fix complex event name parsing in 'perf test' for PowerPC, where the 'umask' event
> modifier isn't present. (Sandipan Das)
>
> CoreSight ARM hardware tracing: (Leo Yan)
>
> - Fix start tracing packet handling.
>
> - Support dummy address value for CS_ETM_TRACE_ON packet.
>
> - Generate branch sample when receiving a CS_ETM_TRACE_ON packet.
>
> - Generate branch sample for CS_ETM_TRACE_ON packet.
>
> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo (9):
> perf trace beauty: Default header_dir to cwd to work without parms
> tools include uapi: Grab a copy of linux/in.h
> perf beauty: Add a generator for IPPROTO_ socket's protocol constants
> perf trace beauty: Do not print NULL strarray entries
> perf trace beauty: Add beautifiers for 'socket''s 'protocol' arg
> perf trace: Beautify the AF_INET & AF_INET6 'socket' syscall 'protocol' args
> perf bpf: Show better message when failing to load an object
> perf bpf: Include uapi/linux/bpf.h from the 'perf trace' script's bpf.h
> perf trace: Do not require --no-syscalls to suppress strace like output
>
> Christophe Leroy (1):
> perf tools: Allow overriding MAX_NR_CPUS at compile time
>
> Ganapatrao Kulkarni (1):
> perf vendor events arm64: Update ThunderX2 implementation defined pmu core events
>
> Jiri Olsa (1):
> perf c2c report: Fix crash for empty browser
>
> Kan Liang (1):
> perf evlist: Fix error out while applying initial delay and LBR
>
> Leo Yan (4):
> perf cs-etm: Fix start tracing packet handling
> perf cs-etm: Support dummy address value for CS_ETM_TRACE_ON packet
> perf cs-etm: Generate branch sample when receiving a CS_ETM_TRACE_ON packet
> perf cs-etm: Generate branch sample for CS_ETM_TRACE_ON packet
>
> Michael Petlan (1):
> perf list: Unify metric group description format with PMU event description
>
> Sandipan Das (2):
> perf tests: Fix complex event name parsing
> perf tests: Fix indexing when invoking subtests
>
> Thomas Richter (1):
> perf build: Fix installation directory for eBPF
>
> tools/include/uapi/linux/in.h | 301 +++++++++++++++++++++
> tools/perf/Makefile.config | 4 +-
> tools/perf/Makefile.perf | 10 +
> tools/perf/builtin-c2c.c | 3 +
> tools/perf/builtin-trace.c | 19 +-
> tools/perf/check-headers.sh | 1 +
> tools/perf/include/bpf/bpf.h | 3 +
> tools/perf/perf.h | 2 +
> .../arch/arm64/cavium/thunderx2/core-imp-def.json | 87 +++++-
> tools/perf/tests/builtin-test.c | 4 +-
> tools/perf/tests/parse-events.c | 2 +-
> tools/perf/trace/beauty/Build | 1 +
> tools/perf/trace/beauty/beauty.h | 3 +
> tools/perf/trace/beauty/drm_ioctl.sh | 9 +-
> tools/perf/trace/beauty/kcmp_type.sh | 2 +-
> tools/perf/trace/beauty/kvm_ioctl.sh | 4 +-
> tools/perf/trace/beauty/madvise_behavior.sh | 2 +-
> tools/perf/trace/beauty/perf_ioctl.sh | 2 +-
> .../perf/trace/beauty/pkey_alloc_access_rights.sh | 2 +-
> tools/perf/trace/beauty/sndrv_ctl_ioctl.sh | 4 +-
> tools/perf/trace/beauty/sndrv_pcm_ioctl.sh | 4 +-
> tools/perf/trace/beauty/socket.c | 28 ++
> tools/perf/trace/beauty/socket_ipproto.sh | 11 +
> tools/perf/trace/beauty/vhost_virtio_ioctl.sh | 6 +-
> tools/perf/util/bpf-loader.c | 4 +-
> tools/perf/util/cs-etm-decoder/cs-etm-decoder.h | 1 +
> tools/perf/util/cs-etm.c | 68 ++++-
> tools/perf/util/evsel.c | 14 +
> tools/perf/util/metricgroup.c | 4 +-
> 29 files changed, 556 insertions(+), 49 deletions(-)
> create mode 100644 tools/include/uapi/linux/in.h
> create mode 100644 tools/perf/trace/beauty/socket.c
> create mode 100755 tools/perf/trace/beauty/socket_ipproto.sh
Pulled, thanks a lot Arnaldo!
Ingo