From: Ingo Molnar Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2016 07:30:25 +0000 (+0100) Subject: Merge tag 'perf-core-for-mingo-20160323' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel... X-Git-Tag: v4.14-rc1~3282^2~68 X-Git-Url: http://review.tizen.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=05f5ece76a88a2cd4859bc93f90379733dd8b4a3;p=platform%2Fkernel%2Flinux-rpi.git Merge tag 'perf-core-for-mingo-20160323' of git://git./linux/kernel/git/acme/linux into perf/urgent Pull perf/core improvements and fixes: User visible fixes: - Fix documentation of :ppp modifier in 'perf list' (Andi Kleen) - Fix silly nodes bitfield bits/bytes length assertion in 'perf bench numa' (Jakub Jelen) - Remove redundant CPU output in libtraceevent (Steven Rostedt) - Remove 'core_id' check in topology 'perf test' (Sukadev Bhattiprolu) Infrastructure changes/fixes: - Record text offset in dso to calculate objdump address, to use with modules in addition to vDSO symbol address calculations (Wang Nan) - Move utilities.mak from perf to tools/scripts/ (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo) - Add cpumode to the perf_sample struct, this way we don't need to pass the union event to the machine and thread resolving routines, shortening function signatures and allowing the future introduction of a way to use tracepoint events instead of the unavailable HW cycles counter on powerpc guests in perf kvm by just hooking on perf_evsel__parse_sample, at the end (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo) - Remove/unexport die() related infrastructure, that at some point will finally be removed (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo) - Adopt linux/stringify.h from the kernel sources, not to touch this kernel header from tools/ (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo) - Stop using strbuf for things we can instead trivially use libc's asprintf() (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo) - Ditch tools/lib/util/abspath.c, its only exported function was used at just one place and can be replaced by libc's realpath() (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo) - Use strerror_r() in the llvm infrastructure, tread safe, its what is used elsewhere in tools/perf/ (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo) Cleanups: - Removed misplaced or needless __maybe_unused/export (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo) Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- 05f5ece76a88a2cd4859bc93f90379733dd8b4a3