Re: [GIT PULL 00/15] perf/core improvements and fixes

* Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo [off-list ref] wrote:

Hi Ingo,

	Please consider pulling,

- Arnaldo

Test results at the end of this message, as usual.

The following changes since commit f2029b1e47b607619d1dd2cb0bbb77f64ec6b7c2:

  perf/x86/intel: Add Kaby Lake support (2017-02-11 21:28:23 +0100)

are available in the git repository at:

  git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux.git tags/perf-core-for-mingo-4.11-20170213

for you to fetch changes up to a734fb5d60067a73dd7099a58756847c07f9cd68:

  samples/bpf: Reset global variables (2017-02-13 17:22:53 -0300)

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perf/core improvements and fixes:

New feature:

- Introduce the 'delta-abs' 'perf diff' compute method, that orders the
  histogram entries by the absolute value of the percentage delta for a
  function in two perf.data files, i.e. the functions that changed the
  most (increase or decrease in samples) comes first (Namhyung Kim)

User visible:

- Improve message about tweaking the kernel.perf_event_paranoid setting,
  telling how to make the change permanent by editing /etc/sysctl.conf
  (Ingo Molnar)

Infrastructure:

- Introduce linux/compiler-gcc.h as a counterpart to the kernel's,
  initially containing the definition of __fallthrough, more to
  come (__maybe_unused, etc) (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)

- Fixes for problems uncovered by building tools/perf with clang, such
  as always true tests of arrays against NULL and variables that sometimes
  were used without being initialized (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo, Steven Rostedt)

- Before loading a new ELF, clear global variables set by the
  samples/bpf loader (Mickaël Salaün)

- Ignore already processed ELF sections in the samples/bpf
  loader (Mickaël Salaün)

- Fix compile error in the scripting code with some perl5
  versions (Wang YanQing)

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <redacted>

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Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo (6):
      tools include: Introduce linux/compiler-gcc.h
      tools lib traceevent plugin function: Initialize 'index' variable
      perf evsel: Inform how to make a sysctl setting permanent
      perf symbols: No need to check if sym->name is NULL
      perf tests record: No need to test an array against NULL
      perf symbols: dso->name is an array, no need to check it against NULL

Mickaël Salaün (3):
      samples/bpf: Add missing header
      samples/bpf: Ignore already processed ELF sections
      samples/bpf: Reset global variables

Namhyung Kim (4):
      perf diff: Add 'delta-abs' compute method
      perf diff: Add diff.order config option
      perf diff: Add diff.compute config option
      perf diff: Change default setting to "delta-abs"

Steven Rostedt (VMware) (1):
      tools lib traceevent: Initialize lenght on OLD_RING_BUFFER_TYPE_TIME_STAMP

Wang YanQing (1):
      perf scripting perl: Fix compile error with some perl5 versions

 samples/bpf/bpf_load.c                             |  7 ++
 samples/bpf/tracex5_kern.c                         |  1 +
 tools/include/linux/compiler-gcc.h                 | 14 ++++
 tools/include/linux/compiler.h                     | 10 +--
 tools/lib/traceevent/kbuffer-parse.c               |  1 +
 tools/lib/traceevent/plugin_function.c             |  2 +-
 tools/perf/Documentation/perf-config.txt           | 12 ++++
 tools/perf/Documentation/perf-diff.txt             | 15 ++++-
 tools/perf/MANIFEST                                |  1 +
 tools/perf/builtin-diff.c                          | 78 ++++++++++++++++++++--
 tools/perf/builtin-kmem.c                          |  4 +-
 tools/perf/builtin-record.c                        |  2 +-
 tools/perf/builtin-sched.c                         |  2 +-
 tools/perf/builtin-stat.c                          |  2 +-
 tools/perf/builtin-top.c                           |  2 +-
 tools/perf/tests/perf-record.c                     |  2 +-
 tools/perf/util/evsel.c                            |  4 +-
 tools/perf/util/evsel_fprintf.c                    |  1 -
 tools/perf/util/machine.c                          |  2 +-
 tools/perf/util/map.c                              |  4 +-
 tools/perf/util/scripting-engines/Build            |  2 +-
 .../perf/util/scripting-engines/trace-event-perl.c |  4 +-
 tools/perf/util/symbol_fprintf.c                   |  2 +-
 23 files changed, 145 insertions(+), 29 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 tools/include/linux/compiler-gcc.h

Pulled, thanks a lot Arnaldo!

	Ingo