9ca2c16f3b
Pull perf updates from Thomas Gleixner:
"Perf tool updates and kprobe fixes:
- perf_mmap overwrite mode fixes/overhaul, prep work to get 'perf
top' using it, making it bearable to use it in large core count
systems such as Knights Landing/Mill Intel systems (Kan Liang)
- s/390 now uses syscall.tbl, just like x86-64 to generate the
syscall table id -> string tables used by 'perf trace' (Hendrik
Brueckner)
- Use strtoull() instead of home grown function (Andy Shevchenko)
- Synchronize kernel ABI headers, v4.16-rc1 (Ingo Molnar)
- Document missing 'perf data --force' option (Sangwon Hong)
- Add perf vendor JSON metrics for ARM Cortex-A53 Processor (William
Cohen)
- Improve error handling and error propagation of ftrace based
kprobes so failures when installing kprobes are not silently
ignored and create disfunctional tracepoints"
* 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (27 commits)
kprobes: Propagate error from disarm_kprobe_ftrace()
kprobes: Propagate error from arm_kprobe_ftrace()
Revert "tools include s390: Grab a copy of arch/s390/include/uapi/asm/unistd.h"
perf s390: Rework system call table creation by using syscall.tbl
perf s390: Grab a copy of arch/s390/kernel/syscall/syscall.tbl
tools/headers: Synchronize kernel ABI headers, v4.16-rc1
perf test: Fix test trace+probe_libc_inet_pton.sh for s390x
perf data: Document missing --force option
perf tools: Substitute yet another strtoull()
perf top: Check the latency of perf_top__mmap_read()
perf top: Switch default mode to overwrite mode
perf top: Remove lost events checking
perf hists browser: Add parameter to disable lost event warning
perf top: Add overwrite fall back
perf evsel: Expose the perf_missing_features struct
perf top: Check per-event overwrite term
perf mmap: Discard legacy interface for mmap read
perf test: Update mmap read functions for backward-ring-buffer test
perf mmap: Introduce perf_mmap__read_event()
perf mmap: Introduce perf_mmap__read_done()
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