35c8fad4a7
Hardware tracing:
ARM:
- Print the size of the buffer size consistently in hexadecimal in ARM Coresight.
- Add Coresight snapshot mode support.
- Update --switch-events docs in 'perf record'.
- Support hardware-based PID tracing.
- Track task context switch for cpu-mode events.
Vendor events:
- Add metric events JSON file for power10 platform
perf test:
- Get 'perf test' unit tests closer to kunit.
- Topology tests improvements.
- Remove bashisms from some tests.
perf bench:
- Fix memory leak of perf_cpu_map__new() in the futex benchmarks.
libbpf:
- Add some more weak libbpf functions o allow building with the libbpf versions, old ones,
present in distros.
libbeauty:
- Translate [gs]setsockopt 'level' argument integer values to strings.
tools headers UAPI:
- Sync futex_waitv, arch prctl, sound, i195_drm and msr-index files with the kernel sources.
Documentation:
- Add documentation to 'struct symbol'.
- Synchronize the definition of enum perf_hw_id with code in tools/perf/design.txt.
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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Merge tag 'perf-tools-for-v5.16-2021-11-13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux
Pull more perf tools updates from Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo:
"Hardware tracing:
- ARM:
* Print the size of the buffer size consistently in hexadecimal in
ARM Coresight.
* Add Coresight snapshot mode support.
* Update --switch-events docs in 'perf record'.
* Support hardware-based PID tracing.
* Track task context switch for cpu-mode events.
- Vendor events:
* Add metric events JSON file for power10 platform
perf test:
- Get 'perf test' unit tests closer to kunit.
- Topology tests improvements.
- Remove bashisms from some tests.
perf bench:
- Fix memory leak of perf_cpu_map__new() in the futex benchmarks.
libbpf:
- Add some more weak libbpf functions o allow building with the
libbpf versions, old ones, present in distros.
libbeauty:
- Translate [gs]setsockopt 'level' argument integer values to
strings.
tools headers UAPI:
- Sync futex_waitv, arch prctl, sound, i195_drm and msr-index files
with the kernel sources.
Documentation:
- Add documentation to 'struct symbol'.
- Synchronize the definition of enum perf_hw_id with code in
tools/perf/design.txt"
* tag 'perf-tools-for-v5.16-2021-11-13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux: (67 commits)
perf tests: Remove bash constructs from stat_all_pmu.sh
perf tests: Remove bash construct from record+zstd_comp_decomp.sh
perf test: Remove bash construct from stat_bpf_counters.sh test
perf bench futex: Fix memory leak of perf_cpu_map__new()
tools arch x86: Sync the msr-index.h copy with the kernel sources
tools headers UAPI: Sync drm/i915_drm.h with the kernel sources
tools headers UAPI: Sync sound/asound.h with the kernel sources
tools headers UAPI: Sync linux/prctl.h with the kernel sources
tools headers UAPI: Sync arch prctl headers with the kernel sources
perf tools: Add more weak libbpf functions
perf bpf: Avoid memory leak from perf_env__insert_btf()
perf symbols: Factor out annotation init/exit
perf symbols: Bit pack to save a byte
perf symbols: Add documentation to 'struct symbol'
tools headers UAPI: Sync files changed by new futex_waitv syscall
perf test bpf: Use ARRAY_CHECK() instead of ad-hoc equivalent, addressing array_size.cocci warning
perf arm-spe: Support hardware-based PID tracing
perf arm-spe: Save context ID in record
perf arm-spe: Update --switch-events docs in 'perf record'
perf arm-spe: Track task context switch for cpu-mode events
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