Re: [GIT PULL 00/13] perf/core improvements and fixes

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>]

* Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> wrote:

> Hi Ingo,
> 
> 	Please consider pulling,
> 
> - Arnaldo
> 
> The following changes since commit 60cd37eb100c4880b28078a47f3062fac7572095:
> 
>   Merge tag 'perf-core-for-mingo' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux into perf/core (2015-07-06 17:46:15 +0200)
> 
> are available in the git repository at:
> 
>   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux.git tags/perf-core-for-mingo
> 
> for you to fetch changes up to d2f3f5d2e9cae6e73f9642a5ddc8c8a07c35e79b:
> 
>   perf bench futex: Add lock_pi stresser (2015-07-20 17:49:51 -0300)
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> perf/core improvements and fixes:
> 
> New features:
> 
> - Allow filtering perf's pid via 'perf record --exclude-perf' (Wang Nan)
> 
> - 'perf trace' now supports syscall groups, like strace, i.e:
> 
>     $ trace -e file touch file
> 
>   Will expand 'file' into multiple, file related, syscalls. More work needed to
>   add extra groups for other syscall groups, and also to complement what was
>   added for the 'file' group, included as a proof of concept. (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
> 
> - Add lock_pi stresser to 'perf bench futex', to test the kernel code
>   related to FUTEX_(UN)LOCK_PI (Davidlohr Bueso)
> 
> User visible fixes:
> 
> - Apply --filter to all events in a glob matching, not just the last one (Wang Nan)
> 
> Documentation:
> 
> - Document setting '-e pmu/period=N/' in the 'perf record' man page (Kan Liang)
> 
> Infrastructure:
> 
> - 'perf probe' code simplifications and movements to separate files (Masami Hiramatsu)
> 
> - Fix makefile generation under 'dash' (Sergei Trofimovich)
> 
> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo (5):
>       perf strlist: load() should return a negative errno
>       perf strlist: Make dupstr be the default and part of an extensible config parm
>       perf strlist: Allow substitutions from file contents in a given directory
>       perf strlist: Make parse_list() private
>       perf trace: Support 'strace' syscall event groups
> 
> Davidlohr Bueso (1):
>       perf bench futex: Add lock_pi stresser
> 
> Kan Liang (1):
>       perf record: Document setting '-e pmu/period=N/' in man page
> 
> Masami Hiramatsu (3):
>       perf probe: Simplify __add_probe_trace_events code
>       perf probe: Move ftrace probe-event operations to probe-file.c
>       perf buildid: Use SBUILD_ID_SIZE macro
> 
> Sergei Trofimovich (1):
>       perf tools: Fix makefile generation under dash
> 
> Wang Nan (2):
>       perf record: Apply filter to all events in a glob matching
>       perf record: Allow filtering perf's pid via --exclude-perf
> 
>  tools/perf/Build                         |   1 +
>  tools/perf/Documentation/perf-bench.txt  |   4 +
>  tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt |  19 +-
>  tools/perf/Makefile.perf                 |   5 +
>  tools/perf/bench/Build                   |   1 +
>  tools/perf/bench/bench.h                 |   2 +
>  tools/perf/bench/futex-lock-pi.c         | 219 +++++++++++++++++
>  tools/perf/bench/futex.h                 |  20 ++
>  tools/perf/builtin-bench.c               |   2 +
>  tools/perf/builtin-buildid-cache.c       |  16 +-
>  tools/perf/builtin-buildid-list.c        |   4 +-
>  tools/perf/builtin-record.c              |   3 +
>  tools/perf/builtin-trace.c               |   6 +-
>  tools/perf/config/Makefile               |   8 +-
>  tools/perf/trace/strace/groups/file      |  18 ++
>  tools/perf/util/Build                    |   1 +
>  tools/perf/util/build-id.c               |   6 +-
>  tools/perf/util/build-id.h               |   3 +-
>  tools/perf/util/evsel.c                  |   1 +
>  tools/perf/util/evsel.h                  |   1 +
>  tools/perf/util/machine.c                |   2 +-
>  tools/perf/util/parse-events.c           |  81 ++++++-
>  tools/perf/util/parse-events.h           |   1 +
>  tools/perf/util/probe-event.c            | 388 ++++++-------------------------
>  tools/perf/util/probe-event.h            |   7 +
>  tools/perf/util/probe-file.c             | 301 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  tools/perf/util/probe-file.h             |  18 ++
>  tools/perf/util/probe-finder.c           |   2 +-
>  tools/perf/util/strlist.c                |  43 +++-
>  tools/perf/util/strlist.h                |   9 +-
>  tools/perf/util/symbol.c                 |   2 +-
>  tools/perf/util/thread_map.c             |   6 +-
>  32 files changed, 842 insertions(+), 358 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 tools/perf/bench/futex-lock-pi.c
>  create mode 100644 tools/perf/trace/strace/groups/file
>  create mode 100644 tools/perf/util/probe-file.c
>  create mode 100644 tools/perf/util/probe-file.h

Pulled, thanks a lot Arnaldo!

	Ingo