You can show the values for several config items as below:

    # perf config report.queue-size call-graph.record-mode

but it is necessary to more precisely check arguments, before passing
them to show_spec_config().  This validation function would be also used
when parsing config key-value pairs arguments in the near future.

Committer notes:

Testing it:

  $ perf config bla.
  The config variable does not contain a variable name: bla.
  $ perf config .bla
  The config variable does not contain a section name: .bla
  $ perf config bla.bla
  $
Signed-off-by: NTaeung Song <treeze.taeung@gmail.com>
Tested-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Nambong Ha <over3025@gmail.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Cc: Wookje Kwon <aweee0@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1478241862-31230-4-git-send-email-treeze.taeung@gmail.com
[ Fix some spelling errors ]
Signed-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

Add a functionality getting specific config key-value pairs.
For the syntax examples,

    perf config [<file-option>] [section.name ...]

e.g. To query config items 'report.queue-size' and 'report.children', do

    # perf config report.queue-size report.children
Signed-off-by: NTaeung Song <treeze.taeung@gmail.com>
Tested-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Nambong Ha <over3025@gmail.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Cc: Wookje Kwon <aweee0@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1478241862-31230-2-git-send-email-treeze.taeung@gmail.com
[ Combined patch with docs update with this one ]
Signed-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

Now when jvmti compilation is plugged into Makefile.perf, there's no
need for this makefile.
Signed-off-by: NJiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Acked-by: NStephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: William Cohen <wcohen@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161112121016.GA17194@kravaSigned-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

Compile jvmti agent as part of the perf build. The agent library is
called libperf-jvmti.so and is installed in default place together with
other files:

  $ make libperf-jvmti.so
    BUILD:   Doing 'make -j4' parallel build
    ...
    CC       jvmti/libjvmti.o
    CC       jvmti/jvmti_agent.o
    LD       jvmti/jvmti-in.o
    LINK     libperf-jvmti.so

  $ make DESTDIR=/tmp/krava/ install-bin
  ...
  $ find /tmp/krava/ | grep libperf
  /tmp/krava/lib64/libperf-jvmti.so
  /tmp/krava/lib64/libperf-gtk.so
Signed-off-by: NJiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Tested-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Tested-by: NStephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: William Cohen <wcohen@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1478093749-5602-4-git-send-email-jolsa@kernel.orgSigned-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

Adding support to detect jvmti support. It is not plugged into the
FEATURE_TESTS machinery, because it's quite rare and will be used
separately from perf via feature_check call.
Signed-off-by: NJiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Tested-by: NStephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: William Cohen <wcohen@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1478093749-5602-3-git-send-email-jolsa@kernel.orgSigned-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

Adding support to remove options from final CFLAGS for both object file
and build target. It's now possible to remove CFLAGS options like:

  CFLAGS_REMOVE_krava.o += -Wstrict-prototypes

Committer notes:

This comes from the kernel's kbuild infrastructure, the subset that is
supported in tools/ is being documented at tools/build/Documentation/Build.txt.
Signed-off-by: NJiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Tested-by: NStephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: William Cohen <wcohen@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1478093749-5602-2-git-send-email-jolsa@kernel.orgSigned-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

Since the unprivileged sched switch event was added in perf, PT doesn't
need need perf_event_paranoid=-1 anymore for per cpu decoding.

Add a note stating that that is only needed for kernels < 4.2.
Reported-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Report-Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-x2ybghpqxxn3zu0m8o7qi42r@git.kernel.orgAcked-by: NAdrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Fixes: 45ac1403 ("perf: Add PERF_RECORD_SWITCH to indicate context switches")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-x2ybghpqxxn3zu0m8o7qi42r@git.kernel.orgSigned-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

Since 841e3558 ("perf callchain: Recording 'dwarf' callchains do not
need DWARF unwinding support"), --call-graph dwarf is allowed in 'perf
record' even without unwind support.  A couple of other places don't
reflect this yet though: the help text should list dwarf as a valid
record mode and the dump_size config should be respected too.
Signed-off-by: NRabin Vincent <rabinv@axis.com>
Cc: He Kuang <hekuang@huawei.com>
Fixes: 841e3558 ("perf callchain: Recording 'dwarf' callchains do not need DWARF unwinding support")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1470837148-7642-1-git-send-email-rabin.vincent@axis.comSigned-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

Merge tag 'perf-core-for-mingo-20161028' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux into perf/core

perf/core improvements and fixes from Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo:

New features:

- Support matching by topic in 'perf list' (Andi Kleen)

User visible:

- Apply cpu color only when there was activity in 'perf sched map' (Namhyung Kim)

- Always show the task's COMM in 'perf sched map -v' (Namhyung Kim)

- Fix hierarchy column counts in the perf hist browser (top, report), avoiding
  showing nothing after pressing the RIGHT key a number of times (Namhyung Kim)

Infrastructure:

- Support cascading options in libsubcmd and use it to share common options in
  'perf sched' subcommands (Namhyung Kim)

- Avoid worker cacheline bouncing in 'perf bench futex' (Davidlohr Bueso)

- Sanitize numeric parameters in 'perf bench futex' (Davidlohr Bueso)

- Update copies of kernel files (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)

- Fix scripting (perl, python) setup to avoid leaks (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)

- Add missing object file to the python binding linkage list (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
Signed-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

In ac12f676 ("perf tools: Implement branch_type event parameter") we
started using the parse_branch_str() function from one of the files used
in the python binding, which caused this entry in 'perf test' to fail:

  # perf test -v python
  16: Try 'import perf' in python, checking link problems      :
  --- start ---
  test child forked, pid 16667
  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  ImportError: /tmp/build/perf/python/perf.so: undefined symbol:
  parse_branch_str
  test child finished with -1
  ---- end ----
  Try 'import perf' in python, checking link problems: FAILED!
  #

I must've commited some mistake when running 'perf test' to send the
pull request for the perf-core-for-mingo-20161024 tag, to have let this
regression to pass, sigh.

Just add tools/perf/util/parse-branch-options.c and switch from using
ui__warning(), that is not available in the python binding, use
pr_warning() instead, which is good enough for this case.

Now:

  # perf test python
  16: Try 'import perf' in python, checking link problems      : Ok
  #

Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Fixes: ac12f676 ("perf tools: Implement branch_type event parameter")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-9kn1ct1cx9ppwqlmzl6z0xhs@git.kernel.orgSigned-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

Removing one more set of die() calls.

Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-6pyil685m5i2tugg56gcy0tg@git.kernel.orgSigned-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

Both register_perl_scripting() and register_python_scripting() allocate
this variable, fix it by checking if it already was.

Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Fixes: 7e4b21b8 ("perf/scripts: Add Python scripting engine")
Signed-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

Introduced in commit f9afc619 ("x86: Wire up protection keys system
calls")

This will make 'perf trace' aware of them on x86_64.

Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-s1ta2ttv2xacecqogmd3a9p1@git.kernel.orgSigned-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

To get the defines introduced in the commit e8c24d3a ("x86/pkeys:
Allocation/free syscalls")

Silencing this perf build warning:

  Warning: tools/include/uapi/asm-generic/mman-common.h differs from kernel

Need to change 'perf trace' to beautify those syscalls, as soon as
booting with a kernel with it.

Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-yev9rexu02cl7cjeozzmrl9t@git.kernel.orgSigned-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

Ignore export.h and EXPORT_SYMBOL in:

  784d5699 ("x86: move exports to actual definitions")

We're not dragging this stuff, not useful in tools/

This silences the following warnings while building perf:

  Warning: tools/arch/x86/lib/memcpy_64.S differs from kernel
  Warning: tools/arch/x86/lib/memset_64.S differs from kernel

Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-h9vw3pe0fq79zmyqsfr0s0mo@git.kernel.orgSigned-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

Add support in perf list topic to only show events belonging to a
specific vendor events topic. For example the following works now:

  % perf list frontend
  List of pre-defined events (to be used in -e):

    stalled-cycles-frontend OR idle-cycles-frontend    [Hardware event]

    stalled-cycles-frontend OR cpu/stalled-cycles-frontend/ [Kernel PMU event]

  frontend:
    dsb2mite_switches.count
         [Decode Stream Buffer (DSB)-to-MITE switches]
    dsb2mite_switches.penalty_cycles
         [Decode Stream Buffer (DSB)-to-MITE switch true penalty cycles]
    dsb_fill.exceed_dsb_lines
         [Cycles when Decode Stream Buffer (DSB) fill encounter more than 3 Decode Stream Buffer (DSB)
          lines]
    icache.hit
         [Number of Instruction Cache, Streaming Buffer and Victim Cache Reads. both cacheable and
          noncacheable, including UC fetches]
  ...
Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Tested-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1476902724-9586-2-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.orgSigned-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

Joonwoo reported that there's a mismatch between timestamps in script
and sched commands.  This was because of difference in printing the
timestamp.  Factor out the code and share it so that they can be in
sync.  Also I found that sched map has similar problem, fix it too.

Committer notes:

Fixed the max_lat_at bug introduced by Namhyung's original patch, as
pointed out by Joonwoo, and made it a function following the scnprintf()
model, i.e. returning the number of bytes formatted, and receiving as
the first parameter the object from where the data to the formatting is
obtained, renaming it from:

   char *timestamp_in_usec(char *bf, size_t size, u64 timestamp)

to

   int timestamp__scnprintf_usec(u64 timestamp, char *bf, size_t size)
Reported-by: NJoonwoo Park <joonwoop@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: NNamhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161024020246.14928-3-namhyung@kernel.orgSigned-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

I'd like to see the name of tasks with perf sched map, but it only shows
name of new tasks and then use short names after all.  This is not good
for long running tasks since it's hard for users to track the short
names.  This patch makes it show the names (except the idle task) when
-v option is used.  Probably we may make it as default behavior.
Signed-off-by: NNamhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Acked-by: NJiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161024020246.14928-2-namhyung@kernel.orgSigned-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

Applying cpu color always doesn't help readability IMHO.  Instead it
might be better to applying the color when there's an activity on those
CPUs.
Signed-off-by: NNamhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Acked-by: NJiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161024020246.14928-1-namhyung@kernel.orgSigned-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

The -i and -v options can be used in subcommands so enable cascading the
sched_options.  This fixes the following inconvenience in 'perf sched':

  $ perf sched -i perf.data.sched  map
  ... (it works well) ...

  $ perf sched map  -i perf.data.sched
    Error: unknown switch `i'

   Usage: perf sched map [<options>]

          --color-cpus <cpus>
                            highlight given CPUs in map
          --color-pids <pids>
                            highlight given pids in map
          --compact         map output in compact mode
          --cpus <cpus>     display given CPUs in map

With this patch, the second command line works with the perf.data.sched
data file.
Signed-off-by: NNamhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Tested-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Acked-by: NJiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161024030003.28534-2-namhyung@kernel.orgSigned-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

Sometimes subcommand have common options and it can only handled in the
upper level command unless it duplicates the options.

This patch adds a parent field and fallback to the parent if the given
argument was not found in the current options.
Signed-off-by: NNamhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Acked-by: NJiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161024030003.28534-1-namhyung@kernel.orgSigned-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

The perf report/top on TUI supports horizontal scrolling using LEFT and
RIGHT keys.

But it calculate the number of columns incorrectly when hierarchy mode
is enabled so that keep pressing RIGHT key can make the output
disappeared.

In the hierarchy mode, all sort keys are collapsed into a single column,
so it needs to be applied when calculating column numbers.
Reported-and-Tested-by: NMarkus Trippelsdorf <markus@trippelsdorf.de>
Signed-off-by: NNamhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Tested-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161024162110.17918-1-namhyung@kernel.orgSigned-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

This gets rid of oddities such as:

  perf bench futex hash -t -4
  perf: calloc: Cannot allocate memory

Runtime (and many more) are equally busted, i.e. run for bogus amounts of
time. Just use the abs, instead of, for example errorring out.

Committer note:

After the patch:

  $ perf bench futex hash -t -4
  # Running 'futex/hash' benchmark:
  Run summary [PID 10178]: 4 threads, each operating on 1024 [private] futexes for 10 secs.

  [thread  0] futexes: 0x34f9fa0 ... 0x34faf9c [ 4702208 ops/sec ]
  [thread  1] futexes: 0x34fb140 ... 0x34fc13c [ 4707020 ops/sec ]
  [thread  2] futexes: 0x34fc2e0 ... 0x34fd2dc [ 4711526 ops/sec ]
  [thread  3] futexes: 0x34fd480 ... 0x34fe47c [ 4709683 ops/sec ]

  Averaged 4707609 operations/sec (+- 0.04%), total secs = 10
  $
Signed-off-by: NDavidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de>
Tested-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1477342613-9938-3-git-send-email-dave@stgolabs.netSigned-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

Sebastian noted that overhead for worker thread ops (throughput)
accounting was producing 'perf' to appear in the profiles, consuming a
non-trivial (i.e. 13%) amount of CPU.

This is due to cacheline bouncing due to the increment of w->ops.

We can easily fix this by just working on a local copy and updating the
actual worker once done running, and ready to show the program summary.
There is no danger of the worker being concurrent, so we can trust that
no stale value is being seen by another thread.

This also gets rid of the unnecessary cache alignment hack; its not
worth it.
Reported-by: NSebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: NDavidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de>
Acked-by: NSebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1477342613-9938-2-git-send-email-dave@stgolabs.netSigned-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

Merge tag 'perf-core-for-mingo-20161024' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux into perf/core

Pull perf/core improvements and fixes from Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo:

New features:

- Dynamicly change verbosity level by pressing 'V' in the 'perf top/report'
  hists TUI browser (Alexis Berlemont)

- Implement 'perf trace --delay' in the same fashion as in 'perf record --delay',
  to skip sampling workload initialization events (Alexis Berlemont)

- Make vendor named events case insensitive in 'perf list', i.e.
  'perf list LONGEST_LAT' works just the same as  'perf list longest_lat' (Andi Kleen)

- Show instruction bytes and lenght in 'perf script' for Intel PT and BTS (Andi Kleen, Adrian Hunter)

   E.g:

    % perf record -e intel_pt// foo
    % perf script --itrace=i0ns -F ip,insn,insnlen
     ffffffff8101232f ilen: 5 insn: 0f 1f 44 00 00
     ffffffff81012334 ilen: 1 insn: 5b
     ffffffff81012335 ilen: 1 insn: 5d
     ffffffff81012336 ilen: 1 insn: c3
     ffffffff810123e3 ilen: 1 insn: 5b
     ffffffff810123e4 ilen: 2 insn: 41 5c
     ffffffff810123e6 ilen: 1 insn: 5d
     ffffffff810123e7 ilen: 1 insn: c3
     ffffffff810124a6 ilen: 2 insn: 31 c0
     ffffffff810124a8 ilen: 9 insn: 41 83 bc 24 a8 01 00 00 01
     ffffffff810124b1 ilen: 2 insn: 75 87

- Allow enabling the perf_event_attr.branch_type attribute member: (Andi Kleen)

  perf record -e sched:sched_switch,cpu/cpu-cycles,branch_type=any/ ...

- Add unwinding support for jitdump (Stefano Sanfilippo)

Fixes:

- Use raw_syscall:sys_enter timestamp in 'perf trace' (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)

Infrastructure:

- Allow jitdump to be built without libdwarf (Maciej Debski)

- Sync x86's syscall table tools/ copy (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)

- Fixes to avoid calling die() in library fuctions already propagating other
  errors (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)

- Improvements to allow libtraceevent to be properly installed in distro
  packages (Jiri Olsa)

- Removing coresight miscellaneous debug output (Mathieu Poirier)

- Cache align the 'perf bench futex' worker struct (Sebastian Andrzej Siewior)

Documentation:

- Minor improvements on the documentation of event parameters (Andi Kleen)

- Add jitdump format specification document (Stephane Eranian)

Spelling fixes:

- Fix typo "No enough" to "Not enough" (Alexander Alemayhu)
Signed-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

Printing the full path of the selected link is obviously not needed,
hence removing.
Signed-off-by: NMathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1476913323-6836-1-git-send-email-mathieu.poirier@linaro.orgSigned-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

Make the 'perf list' glob matching for vendor events case insensitive.
This allows to use the upper case vendor events with perf list too.

Now the following works:

  % perf list LONGEST_LAT

  ...

  cache:
    longest_lat_cache.miss
         [Core-originated cacheable demand requests missed LLC]
    longest_lat_cache.reference
         [Core-originated cacheable demand requests that refer to LLC]
Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Suggested-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Tested-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1476899402-31460-1-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.orgSigned-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

Instead of the one when another syscall takes place while another is being
processed (in another CPU, but we show it serialized, so need to "interrupt"
the other), and also when finally showing the sys_enter + sys_exit + duration,
where we were showing the sample->time for the sys_exit, duh.

Before:

  # perf trace sleep 1
  <SNIP>
     0.373 (   0.001 ms): close(fd: 3                   ) = 0
  1000.626 (1000.211 ms): nanosleep(rqtp: 0x7ffd6ddddfb0) = 0
  1000.653 (   0.003 ms): close(fd: 1                   ) = 0
  1000.657 (   0.002 ms): close(fd: 2                   ) = 0
  1000.667 (   0.000 ms): exit_group(                   )
  #

After:

  # perf trace sleep 1
  <SNIP>
     0.336 (   0.001 ms): close(fd: 3                   ) = 0
     0.373 (1000.086 ms): nanosleep(rqtp: 0x7ffe303e9550) = 0
  1000.481 (   0.002 ms): close(fd: 1                   ) = 0
  1000.485 (   0.001 ms): close(fd: 2                   ) = 0
  1000.494 (   0.000 ms): exit_group(                   )
[root@jouet linux]#

Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-ecbzgmu2ni6glc6zkw8p1zmx@git.kernel.org
Fixes: 752fde44 ("perf trace: Support interrupted syscalls")
Signed-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

Not used at all, we need just the entry_time to calculate the syscall
duration.

Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-js6r09zdwlzecvaei7t4l3vd@git.kernel.orgSigned-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

It popped up in perf testing that the worker consumes some amount of
CPU. It boils down to the increment of `ops` which causes cache line
bouncing between the individual threads.

This patch aligns the struct by 256 bytes to ensure that not a cache
line is shared among CPUs. 128 byte is the x86 worst case and grep says
that L1_CACHE_SHIFT is set to 8 on s390.
Signed-off-by: NSebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161016190803.3392-1-bigeasy@linutronix.deSigned-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

We already have handling for errors when processing PERF_RECORD_ events,
so instead of calling die() when not being able to alloc, propagate the
error, so that the normal UI exit sequence can take place, the user be
warned and possibly the terminal be properly reset to a sane mode.

Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@inria.fr>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-r90je3c009a125dvs3525yge@git.kernel.orgSigned-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

It already returns whatever strbuf_(grow|addch)() returns in case of
failure, so just return -ENOSPC in the only case where it was die()ing.
When it returns, its only caller will call die() anyway, so no need to
be so eager, die later.

Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-as05b7mbogprlwi8iarwns8e@git.kernel.orgSigned-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

Instead of having all tests perform alloc/free, do it in the code that
calls the do_cycles() and do_gettimeofday() functions.

Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Hitoshi Mitake <mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-lywj4mbdb1m9x1z9asivwuuy@git.kernel.orgSigned-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

In the perf wiki todo-list[1], there is an entry regarding initial-delay
and 'perf trace'; the following small patch tries to fulfill this point.
It has been generated against the branch tip/perf/core.

It has only been implemented in the "trace__run" case.

Ex.:

  $ sudo strace -- ./perf trace --delay 5 sleep 1 2>&1
  ...
  fcntl(7, F_SETFL, O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK)  = 0
  ioctl(7, PERF_EVENT_IOC_ID, 0x7ffc8fd35718) = 0
  ioctl(11, PERF_EVENT_IOC_SET_OUTPUT, 0x7) = 0
  fcntl(11, F_SETFL, O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK) = 0
  ioctl(11, PERF_EVENT_IOC_ID, 0x7ffc8fd35718) = 0
  write(6, "\0", 1)                       = 1
  close(6)                                = 0
  nanosleep({0, 5000000}, NULL)           = 0  # DELAY OF 5 MS BEFORE ENABLING THE EVENTS
  ioctl(3, PERF_EVENT_IOC_ENABLE, 0)      = 0
  ioctl(4, PERF_EVENT_IOC_ENABLE, 0)      = 0
  ioctl(5, PERF_EVENT_IOC_ENABLE, 0)      = 0
  ioctl(7, PERF_EVENT_IOC_ENABLE, 0)      = 0
  ...

[1]: https://perf.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/TodoSigned-off-by: NAlexis Berlemont <alexis.berlemont@gmail.com>
Suggested-and-Tested-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161010054328.4028-2-alexis.berlemont@gmail.com
[ Add entry to the manpage, cut'n'pasted from stat's and record's ]
Signed-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

Here is a small patch which tries to fulfill a point in the perf todo
list:

* Make pressing 'V' multiple times to go on cycling thru various
  verbosity levels in 'perf top', so that info that is present in
  'perf top -v' can be obtained without having to restart the tool
  (acme).

After a small grep in the code, the max verbosity level seems 3; so,
we cycle at 4; I did not dare define a MAX_VERBOSE_LEVEL constant.
Signed-off-by: NAlexis Berlemont <alexis.berlemont@gmail.com>
Suggested-and-Tested-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161012214823.14324-2-alexis.berlemont@gmail.comSigned-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

The latter version occurs much more when running git grep.
Signed-off-by: NAlexander Alemayhu <alexander@alemayhu.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161013161811.4939-1-alexander@alemayhu.comSigned-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

With uncore event aliases which are duplicated over multiple PMUs the
"Using CPUID" message with -v could be printed many times.  Only print
it once.
Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1476393332-20732-3-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.orgSigned-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

This patch adds a formal specification of the jitdump format. The goal
is to help jit runtime developers implement the jitdump support without
having to read the jvmti code.
Signed-off-by: NStephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@ozlabs.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1476356383-30100-10-git-send-email-eranian@google.comSigned-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

Check the version number when opening a jitdump file.  Accept older
versions, but not newer ones.
Signed-off-by: NStefano Sanfilippo <ssanfilippo@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: NRoss McIlroy <rmcilroy@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: NStephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@ozlabs.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1476356383-30100-9-git-send-email-eranian@google.comSigned-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

When the jit_buf_desc contains unwinding information, it is emitted as
eh_frame unwinding sections in the DSOs generated by perf inject.

The unwinding information is required to unwind of JITed code which do
not maintain the frame pointer register during function calls.  It can
be emitted by V8 / Chromium when the --perf_prof_unwinding_info is
passed to V8.

The eh_frame and eh_frame_hdr sections are emitted immediately after the
.text.

The .eh_frame is aligned at a 8-byte boundary, and .eh_frame_hdr at a
4-byte one. Since size of the .eh_frame is required to be a multiple of
the word size, which means there will never be additional padding
between it and the .eh_frame_hdr on machines where the word size is 4 or
8 bytes.

However, additional padding might be inserted between .text and
.eh_frame to reach the correct alignment, which will always be 8 bytes,
also on 32bit machines. The reasoning behind this choice is that 4 extra
bytes of padding worst case are not a large cost for the advantage of
removing word-size dependent offset calculations when emitting the
jitdump.
Signed-off-by: NStefano Sanfilippo <ssanfilippo@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: NRoss McIlroy <rmcilroy@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: NStephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@ozlabs.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1476356383-30100-8-git-send-email-eranian@google.comSigned-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>