Pull perf updates from Ingo Molnar:
"The main kernel side changes were:
- uprobes enhancements (Masami Hiramatsu)
- Uncore group events enhancements (David Carrillo-Cisneros)
- x86 Intel: Add support for Skylake server uncore PMUs (Kan Liang)
- x86 Intel: LBR cleanups and enhancements, for better branch
annotation tracking (Peter Zijlstra)
- x86 Intel: Add support for PTWRITE and power event tracing
(Alexander Shishkin)
- ... various fixes, cleanups and smaller enhancements.
Lots of tooling changes - a couple of highlights:
- Support event group view with hierarchy mode in 'perf top' and
'perf report' (Namhyung Kim)
e.g.:
$ perf record -e '{cycles,instructions}' make
$ perf report --hierarchy --stdio
...
# Overhead Command / Shared Object / Symbol
# ...................... ..................................
...
25.74% 27.18%sh
19.96% 24.14%libc-2.24.so
9.55% 14.64%[.] __strcmp_sse2
1.54% 0.00%[.] __tfind
1.07% 1.13%[.] _int_malloc
0.95% 0.00%[.] __strchr_sse2
0.89% 1.39%[.] __tsearch
0.76% 0.00%[.] strlen
- Add branch stack / basic block info to 'perf annotate --stdio',
where for each branch, we add an asm comment after the instruction
with information on how often it was taken and predicted. See
example with color output at:
http://vger.kernel.org/~acme/perf/annotate_basic_blocks.png
(Peter Zijlstra)
- Add support for using symbols in address filters with Intel PT and
ARM CoreSight (hardware assisted tracing facilities) (Adrian
Hunter, Mathieu Poirier)
- Add support for interacting with Coresight PMU ETMs/PTMs, that are
IP blocks to perform hardware assisted tracing on a ARM CPU core
(Mathieu Poirier)
- Support generating cross arch probes, i.e. if you specify a vmlinux
file for different arch than the one in the host machine,
$ perf probe --definition function_name args
will generate the probe definition string needed to append to the
target machine /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/kprobes_events file, using
scripting (Masami Hiramatsu).
- Allow configuring the default 'perf report -s' sort order in
~/.perfconfig, for instance, "sym,dso" may be more fitting for
kernel developers. (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
- ... plus lots of other changes, refactorings, features and fixes"
* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (149 commits)
perf tests: Add dwarf unwind test for powerpc
perf probe: Match linkage name with mangled name
perf probe: Fix to cut off incompatible chars from group name
perf probe: Skip if the function address is 0
perf probe: Ignore the error of finding inline instance
perf intel-pt: Fix decoding when there are address filters
perf intel-pt: Enable decoder to handle TIP.PGD with missing IP
perf intel-pt: Read address filter from AUXTRACE_INFO event
perf intel-pt: Record address filter in AUXTRACE_INFO event
perf intel-pt: Add a helper function for processing AUXTRACE_INFO
perf intel-pt: Fix missing error codes processing auxtrace_info
perf intel-pt: Add support for recording the max non-turbo ratio
perf intel-pt: Fix snapshot overlap detection decoder errors
perf probe: Increase debug level of SDT debug messages
perf record: Add support for using symbols in address filters
perf symbols: Add dso__last_symbol()
perf record: Fix error paths
perf record: Rename label 'out_symbol_exit'
perf script: Fix vanished idle symbols
perf evsel: Add support for address filters
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