12ad143e1b
Pull perf updates from Thomas Gleixner:
"Perf updates and fixes:
Kernel:
- Handle events which have the bpf_event attribute set as side band
events as they carry information about BPF programs.
- Add missing switch-case fall-through comments
Libraries:
- Fix leaks and double frees in error code paths.
- Prevent buffer overflows in libtraceevent
Tools:
- Improvements in handling Intel BT/PTS
- Add BTF ELF markers to perf trace BPF programs to improve output
- Support --time, --cpu, --pid and --tid filters for perf diff
- Calculate the column width in perf annotate as the hardcoded 6
characters for the instruction are not sufficient
- Small fixes all over the place"
* 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (38 commits)
perf/core: Mark expected switch fall-through
perf/x86/intel/uncore: Fix client IMC events return huge result
perf/ring_buffer: Use high order allocations for AUX buffers optimistically
perf data: Force perf_data__open|close zero data->file.path
perf session: Fix double free in perf_data__close
perf evsel: Probe for precise_ip with simple attr
perf tools: Read and store caps/max_precise in perf_pmu
perf hist: Fix memory leak of srcline
perf hist: Add error path into hist_entry__init
perf c2c: Fix c2c report for empty numa node
perf script python: Add Python3 support to intel-pt-events.py
perf script python: Add Python3 support to event_analyzing_sample.py
perf script python: add Python3 support to check-perf-trace.py
perf script python: Add Python3 support to futex-contention.py
perf script python: Remove mixed indentation
perf diff: Support --pid/--tid filter options
perf diff: Support --cpu filter option
perf diff: Support --time filter option
perf thread: Generalize function to copy from thread addr space from intel-bts code
perf annotate: Calculate the max instruction name, align column to that
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