linux/tools/perf/util
Linus Torvalds 9c2b957db1 Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull perf events changes for v3.4 from Ingo Molnar:

 - New "hardware based branch profiling" feature both on the kernel and
   the tooling side, on CPUs that support it.  (modern x86 Intel CPUs
   with the 'LBR' hardware feature currently.)

   This new feature is basically a sophisticated 'magnifying glass' for
   branch execution - something that is pretty difficult to extract from
   regular, function histogram centric profiles.

   The simplest mode is activated via 'perf record -b', and the result
   looks like this in perf report:

	$ perf record -b any_call,u -e cycles:u branchy

	$ perf report -b --sort=symbol
	    52.34%  [.] main                   [.] f1
	    24.04%  [.] f1                     [.] f3
	    23.60%  [.] f1                     [.] f2
	     0.01%  [k] _IO_new_file_xsputn    [k] _IO_file_overflow
	     0.01%  [k] _IO_vfprintf_internal  [k] _IO_new_file_xsputn
	     0.01%  [k] _IO_vfprintf_internal  [k] strchrnul
	     0.01%  [k] __printf               [k] _IO_vfprintf_internal
	     0.01%  [k] main                   [k] __printf

   This output shows from/to branch columns and shows the highest
   percentage (from,to) jump combinations - i.e.  the most likely taken
   branches in the system.  "branches" can also include function calls
   and any other synchronous and asynchronous transitions of the
   instruction pointer that are not 'next instruction' - such as system
   calls, traps, interrupts, etc.

   This feature comes with (hopefully intuitive) flat ascii and TUI
   support in perf report.

 - Various 'perf annotate' visual improvements for us assembly junkies.
   It will now recognize function calls in the TUI and by hitting enter
   you can follow the call (recursively) and back, amongst other
   improvements.

 - Multiple threads/processes recording support in perf record, perf
   stat, perf top - which is activated via a comma-list of PIDs:

	perf top -p 21483,21485
	perf stat -p 21483,21485 -ddd
	perf record -p 21483,21485

 - Support for per UID views, via the --uid paramter to perf top, perf
   report, etc.  For example 'perf top --uid mingo' will only show the
   tasks that I am running, excluding other users, root, etc.

 - Jump label restructurings and improvements - this includes the
   factoring out of the (hopefully much clearer) include/linux/static_key.h
   generic facility:

	struct static_key key = STATIC_KEY_INIT_FALSE;

	...

	if (static_key_false(&key))
	        do unlikely code
	else
	        do likely code

	...
	static_key_slow_inc();
	...
	static_key_slow_inc();
	...

   The static_key_false() branch will be generated into the code with as
   little impact to the likely code path as possible.  the
   static_key_slow_*() APIs flip the branch via live kernel code patching.

   This facility can now be used more widely within the kernel to
   micro-optimize hot branches whose likelihood matches the static-key
   usage and fast/slow cost patterns.

 - SW function tracer improvements: perf support and filtering support.

 - Various hardenings of the perf.data ABI, to make older perf.data's
   smoother on newer tool versions, to make new features integrate more
   smoothly, to support cross-endian recording/analyzing workflows
   better, etc.

 - Restructuring of the kprobes code, the splitting out of 'optprobes',
   and a corner case bugfix.

 - Allow the tracing of kernel console output (printk).

 - Improvements/fixes to user-space RDPMC support, allowing user-space
   self-profiling code to extract PMU counts without performing any
   system calls, while playing nice with the kernel side.

 - 'perf bench' improvements

 - ... and lots of internal restructurings, cleanups and fixes that made
   these features possible.  And, as usual this list is incomplete as
   there were also lots of other improvements

* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (120 commits)
  perf report: Fix annotate double quit issue in branch view mode
  perf report: Remove duplicate annotate choice in branch view mode
  perf/x86: Prettify pmu config literals
  perf report: Enable TUI in branch view mode
  perf report: Auto-detect branch stack sampling mode
  perf record: Add HEADER_BRANCH_STACK tag
  perf record: Provide default branch stack sampling mode option
  perf tools: Make perf able to read files from older ABIs
  perf tools: Fix ABI compatibility bug in print_event_desc()
  perf tools: Enable reading of perf.data files from different ABI rev
  perf: Add ABI reference sizes
  perf report: Add support for taken branch sampling
  perf record: Add support for sampling taken branch
  perf tools: Add code to support PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_STACK
  x86/kprobes: Split out optprobe related code to kprobes-opt.c
  x86/kprobes: Fix a bug which can modify kernel code permanently
  x86/kprobes: Fix instruction recovery on optimized path
  perf: Add callback to flush branch_stack on context switch
  perf: Disable PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_* when not supported
  perf/x86: Add LBR software filter support for Intel CPUs
  ...
2012-03-20 10:29:15 -07:00
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include Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2012-03-20 10:29:15 -07:00
scripting-engines perf tools: Remove unnecessary ctype.h inclusion 2012-01-30 18:37:35 -02:00
ui Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2012-03-20 10:29:15 -07:00
abspath.c perf tools: Remove some unused functions 2010-05-18 23:03:35 -03:00
alias.c perf_counter tools: Add more warnings and fix/annotate them 2009-07-01 12:49:48 +02:00
annotate.c perf annotate: Add missing newline on error message 2012-03-05 10:15:50 -03:00
annotate.h perf symbols: Add nr_events to symbol_conf 2011-11-28 10:37:11 -02:00
bitmap.c perf tools: Add bitmap_or function into bitmap object 2012-02-13 23:28:10 -02:00
build-id.c perf tools: Rename perf_event_ops to perf_tool 2011-11-28 10:39:28 -02:00
build-id.h perf tools: Rename perf_event_ops to perf_tool 2011-11-28 10:39:28 -02:00
cache.h perf tools: Don't fallback to setup_pager unconditionally 2011-01-31 18:08:39 -02:00
callchain.c perf tools: Kill event_t typedef, use 'union perf_event' instead 2011-01-29 16:25:37 -02:00
callchain.h perf tools: Pass tool context in the the perf_event_ops functions 2011-11-28 10:38:56 -02:00
cgroup.c perf tools: Eliminate duplicate code and use PATH_MAX consistently 2011-11-28 10:11:04 -02:00
cgroup.h perf tool: Add cgroup support 2011-02-16 13:30:48 +01:00
color.c perf tools: Use scnprintf where applicable 2012-03-14 12:36:19 -03:00
color.h perf hist: Replace ->print() routines by ->snprintf() equivalents 2010-04-02 16:28:15 -03:00
config.c perf tools: Remove stale git headlines from top comment 2011-12-20 13:43:36 -02:00
cpumap.c perf tools: Add fprintf methods for thread_map and cpu_map classes 2012-01-24 19:46:48 -02:00
cpumap.h perf tools: Add fprintf methods for thread_map and cpu_map classes 2012-01-24 19:46:48 -02:00
ctype.c perf tools: ctype.c only wants util.h 2012-02-13 23:17:40 -02:00
debug.c perf ui browser: Handle K_RESIZE in dialog windows 2011-10-26 13:15:07 -02:00
debug.h perf ui browser: Handle K_RESIZE in dialog windows 2011-10-26 13:15:07 -02:00
debugfs.c perf tools: Remove unused functions from debugfs object 2012-02-13 23:25:38 -02:00
debugfs.h perf tools: Remove unused functions from debugfs object 2012-02-13 23:25:38 -02:00
dwarf-aux.c perf probe: Filter out redundant inline-instances 2011-08-12 09:34:35 -03:00
dwarf-aux.h perf probe: Search concrete out-of-line instances 2011-08-12 09:32:10 -03:00
environment.c
event.c perf tools: Ensure comm string is properly terminated 2012-02-29 18:29:45 -03:00
event.h perf tools: Add code to support PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_STACK 2012-03-09 08:26:04 +01:00
evlist.c perf evlist: Restore original errno after open failed 2012-03-05 10:15:49 -03:00
evlist.h perf tools: Allow multiple threads or processes in record, stat, top 2012-02-13 22:54:11 -02:00
evsel.c perf record: Add support for sampling taken branch 2012-03-09 08:26:05 +01:00
evsel.h perf tools: Save some loops using perf_evlist__id2evsel 2011-11-28 17:57:40 -02:00
exec_cmd.c perf tools: Makefile: Remove various and sundry cruft 2011-02-18 07:43:06 -02:00
exec_cmd.h perf tools: Remove some unused functions 2010-05-18 23:03:35 -03:00
generate-cmdlist.sh
header.c Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2012-03-20 10:29:15 -07:00
header.h perf record: Add HEADER_BRANCH_STACK tag 2012-03-09 08:26:08 +01:00
help.c perf tools: Remove some unused functions 2010-05-18 23:03:35 -03:00
help.h perf tools: Protect header files with a consistent style 2009-09-24 21:27:51 +02:00
hist.c Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2012-03-20 10:29:15 -07:00
hist.h perf tools: Add code to support PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_STACK 2012-03-09 08:26:04 +01:00
hweight.c perf tools: Don't use code surrounded by __KERNEL__ 2010-05-02 12:00:44 -03:00
levenshtein.c
levenshtein.h perf tools: Protect header files with a consistent style 2009-09-24 21:27:51 +02:00
map.c perf script: Add option resolving vmlinux path 2012-01-30 18:13:07 -02:00
map.h perf script: Unify the expressions indicating "unknown" 2012-01-30 17:57:57 -02:00
pager.c perf_counter tools: Remove dead code 2009-06-27 06:06:39 +02:00
parse-events.c perf record: Fix buffer overrun bug in tracepoint_id_to_path() 2012-03-13 17:01:28 +01:00
parse-events.h perf tools: Simplify debugfs mountpoint handling code 2011-11-28 10:11:28 -02:00
parse-options.c perf options: Type check all the remaining OPT_ variants 2010-05-17 16:22:41 -03:00
parse-options.h perf options: add OPT_CALLBACK_DEFAULT_NOOPT 2010-12-06 15:33:29 -02:00
path.c perf tools: add test for strlcpy() 2010-08-21 11:22:47 -03:00
PERF-VERSION-GEN perf: clear out make flags when calling kernel make kernelver 2011-06-15 22:12:55 +02:00
probe-event.c Merge branch 'perf/urgent' into perf/core 2012-03-05 09:20:08 +01:00
probe-event.h perf probe: Add probed module in front of function 2011-07-15 16:19:08 -04:00
probe-finder.c Merge branch 'perf/urgent' into perf/core 2012-03-05 09:20:08 +01:00
probe-finder.h perf tools: Eliminate duplicate code and use PATH_MAX consistently 2011-11-28 10:11:04 -02:00
pstack.c perf newt: Make <- zoom out filters 2010-05-14 20:05:21 -03:00
pstack.h perf ui: Move hists browser to util/ui/browsers/ 2010-08-10 16:11:08 -03:00
python-ext-sources perf tools: Allow multiple threads or processes in record, stat, top 2012-02-13 22:54:11 -02:00
python.c perf tools: Introduce per user view 2012-01-24 19:47:37 -02:00
quote.c perf tools: Remove some unused functions 2010-05-18 23:03:35 -03:00
quote.h perf tools: Remove some unused functions 2010-05-18 23:03:35 -03:00
run-command.c perf tools: Remove some unused functions 2010-05-18 23:03:35 -03:00
run-command.h perf tools: Remove some unused functions 2010-05-18 23:03:35 -03:00
session.c perf report: Enable TUI in branch view mode 2012-03-09 08:26:08 +01:00
session.h perf tools: Add code to support PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_STACK 2012-03-09 08:26:04 +01:00
setup.py perf tools: Fix build dependency of perf python extension 2012-02-13 18:01:25 -02:00
sigchain.c perf tools: Remove some unused functions 2010-05-18 23:03:35 -03:00
sigchain.h perf tools: Remove some unused functions 2010-05-18 23:03:35 -03:00
sort.c Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2012-03-20 10:29:15 -07:00
sort.h perf report: Enable TUI in branch view mode 2012-03-09 08:26:08 +01:00
strbuf.c perf tools: Use scnprintf where applicable 2012-03-14 12:36:19 -03:00
strbuf.h perf tools: Remove some unused functions 2010-05-18 23:03:35 -03:00
strfilter.c perf: Fix missing strndup declaration 2011-03-04 01:17:18 +01:00
strfilter.h perf tools: Add strfilter for general purpose string filter 2011-01-28 09:19:38 -02:00
string.c perf probe: Move strtailcmp to string.c 2011-07-15 16:00:47 -04:00
strlist.c perf probe: Fix --del to update current event list 2009-12-15 20:22:01 +01:00
strlist.h perf tools: Add for_each macros for strlist 2009-12-15 20:22:02 +01:00
svghelper.c perf timechart: Fix black idle boxes in the title 2011-02-28 08:56:14 +01:00
svghelper.h perf tools: Protect header files with a consistent style 2009-09-24 21:27:51 +02:00
symbol.c perf tools: Get rid of ctype.h in symbol.c 2012-02-13 23:22:50 -02:00
symbol.h perf report: Enable TUI in branch view mode 2012-03-09 08:26:08 +01:00
sysfs.c perf tools: Add sysfs mountpoint interface 2012-02-13 23:27:15 -02:00
sysfs.h perf tools: Add sysfs mountpoint interface 2012-02-13 23:27:15 -02:00
thread_map.c perf tools: fix broken perf record -a mode 2012-02-21 15:05:43 -02:00
thread_map.h perf tools: Allow multiple threads or processes in record, stat, top 2012-02-13 22:54:11 -02:00
thread.c perf session: Move threads to struct machine 2011-11-28 10:35:31 -02:00
thread.h perf tools: Resolve machine earlier and pass it to perf_event_ops 2011-11-28 10:39:12 -02:00
tool.h perf tools: Save some loops using perf_evlist__id2evsel 2011-11-28 17:57:40 -02:00
top.c perf tools: Allow multiple threads or processes in record, stat, top 2012-02-13 22:54:11 -02:00
top.h perf tools: Handle kernels that don't support attr.exclude_{guest,host} 2012-03-03 12:19:56 -03:00
trace-event-info.c perf tools: Fix compile error on x86_64 Ubuntu 2012-01-08 13:34:55 -02:00
trace-event-parse.c perf tools: Allow expressions in __print_symbolic() fields 2012-02-17 16:34:08 -02:00
trace-event-read.c perf tools: Remove unnecessary ctype.h inclusion 2012-01-30 18:37:35 -02:00
trace-event-scripting.c perf tools: Remove unnecessary ctype.h inclusion 2012-01-30 18:37:35 -02:00
trace-event.h perf tools: Resolve machine earlier and pass it to perf_event_ops 2011-11-28 10:39:12 -02:00
types.h perf tools: Fix 64 bit integer format strings 2011-01-22 23:41:57 -02:00
usage.c perf tools: Allow multiple threads or processes in record, stat, top 2012-02-13 22:54:11 -02:00
util.c perf tools: Change perf_guest default back to false 2012-03-03 12:13:41 -03:00
util.h perf tools: Implement islower/isupper macro into util.h 2012-02-13 23:15:43 -02:00
values.c perf tools: Fix a memory leak on perf_read_values_destroy 2011-12-20 13:41:34 -02:00
values.h perf tools: Protect header files with a consistent style 2009-09-24 21:27:51 +02:00
wrapper.c perf tools: remove xstrndup, xmalloc, xzalloc 2010-05-18 23:05:28 -03:00
xyarray.c perf tools: Introduce event selectors 2011-01-03 16:39:04 -02:00
xyarray.h perf tools: Introduce event selectors 2011-01-03 16:39:04 -02:00