8636df94ec
- Use BPF CO-RE (Compile Once, Run Everywhere) to support old kernels
when using bperf (perf BPF based counters) with cgroups.
- Support HiSilicon PCIe Performance Monitoring Unit (PMU), that
monitors bandwidth, latency, bus utilization and buffer occupancy.
Documented in Documentation/admin-guide/perf/hisi-pcie-pmu.rst.
- User space tasks can migrate between CPUs, so when tracing selected
CPUs, system-wide sideband is still needed, fix it in the setup of
Intel PT on hybrid systems.
- Fix metricgroups title message in 'perf list', it should state that
the metrics groups are to be used with the '-M' option, not '-e'.
- Sync the msr-index.h copy with the kernel sources, adding support
for using "AMD64_TSC_RATIO" in filter expressions in 'perf trace' as
well as decoding it when printing the MSR tracepoint arguments.
- Fix program header size and alignment when generating a JIT ELF
in 'perf inject'.
- Add multiple new Intel PT 'perf test' entries, including a jitdump one.
- Fix the 'perf test' entries for 'perf stat' CSV and JSON output when
running on PowerPC due to an invalid topology number in that arch.
- Fix the 'perf test' for arm_coresight failures on the ARM Juno system.
- Fix the 'perf test' attr entry for PERF_FORMAT_LOST, adding this option
to the or expression expected in the intercepted perf_event_open() syscall.
- Add missing condition flags ('hs', 'lo', 'vc', 'vs') for arm64 in the 'perf
annotate' asm parser.
- Fix 'perf mem record -C' option processing, it was being chopped up
when preparing the underlying 'perf record -e mem-events' and thus being
ignored, requiring using '-- -C CPUs' as a workaround.
- Improvements and tidy ups for 'perf test' shell infra.
- Fix Intel PT information printing segfault in uClibc, where a NULL
format was being passed to fprintf.
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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Merge tag 'perf-tools-for-v6.1-2-2022-10-16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux
Pull more perf tools updates from Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo:
- Use BPF CO-RE (Compile Once, Run Everywhere) to support old kernels
when using bperf (perf BPF based counters) with cgroups.
- Support HiSilicon PCIe Performance Monitoring Unit (PMU), that
monitors bandwidth, latency, bus utilization and buffer occupancy.
Documented in Documentation/admin-guide/perf/hisi-pcie-pmu.rst.
- User space tasks can migrate between CPUs, so when tracing selected
CPUs, system-wide sideband is still needed, fix it in the setup of
Intel PT on hybrid systems.
- Fix metricgroups title message in 'perf list', it should state that
the metrics groups are to be used with the '-M' option, not '-e'.
- Sync the msr-index.h copy with the kernel sources, adding support for
using "AMD64_TSC_RATIO" in filter expressions in 'perf trace' as well
as decoding it when printing the MSR tracepoint arguments.
- Fix program header size and alignment when generating a JIT ELF in
'perf inject'.
- Add multiple new Intel PT 'perf test' entries, including a jitdump
one.
- Fix the 'perf test' entries for 'perf stat' CSV and JSON output when
running on PowerPC due to an invalid topology number in that arch.
- Fix the 'perf test' for arm_coresight failures on the ARM Juno
system.
- Fix the 'perf test' attr entry for PERF_FORMAT_LOST, adding this
option to the or expression expected in the intercepted
perf_event_open() syscall.
- Add missing condition flags ('hs', 'lo', 'vc', 'vs') for arm64 in the
'perf annotate' asm parser.
- Fix 'perf mem record -C' option processing, it was being chopped up
when preparing the underlying 'perf record -e mem-events' and thus
being ignored, requiring using '-- -C CPUs' as a workaround.
- Improvements and tidy ups for 'perf test' shell infra.
- Fix Intel PT information printing segfault in uClibc, where a NULL
format was being passed to fprintf.
* tag 'perf-tools-for-v6.1-2-2022-10-16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux: (23 commits)
tools arch x86: Sync the msr-index.h copy with the kernel sources
perf auxtrace arm64: Add support for parsing HiSilicon PCIe Trace packet
perf auxtrace arm64: Add support for HiSilicon PCIe Tune and Trace device driver
perf auxtrace arm: Refactor event list iteration in auxtrace_record__init()
perf tests stat+json_output: Include sanity check for topology
perf tests stat+csv_output: Include sanity check for topology
perf intel-pt: Fix system_wide dummy event for hybrid
perf intel-pt: Fix segfault in intel_pt_print_info() with uClibc
perf test: Fix attr tests for PERF_FORMAT_LOST
perf test: test_intel_pt.sh: Add 9 tests
perf inject: Fix GEN_ELF_TEXT_OFFSET for jit
perf test: test_intel_pt.sh: Add jitdump test
perf test: test_intel_pt.sh: Tidy some alignment
perf test: test_intel_pt.sh: Print a message when skipping kernel tracing
perf test: test_intel_pt.sh: Tidy some perf record options
perf test: test_intel_pt.sh: Fix return checking again
perf: Skip and warn on unknown format 'configN' attrs
perf list: Fix metricgroups title message
perf mem: Fix -C option behavior for perf mem record
perf annotate: Add missing condition flags for arm64
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