b1412bd75a
New features:
- Enable use of BPF counters with 'perf stat --for-each-cgroup', using per-CPU
'cgroup-switch' events with an attached BPF program that does aggregation
per-cgroup in the kernel instead of using per-cgroup perf events.
- Add Topdown metrics L2 events as default events in 'perf stat' for systems
having those events.
Hardware tracing:
- Add a config for max loops without consuming a packet in the Intel PT packet
decoder, set via 'perf config intel-pt.max-loops=N'
Hardware enablement:
- Disable misleading NMI watchdog message in 'perf stat' on hybrid systems
such as Intel Alder Lake.
- Add a dummy event on hybrid systems to collect metadata records.
- Add 24x7 nest metric events for the Power10 platform.
Fixes:
- Fix event parsing for PMUs starting with the same prefix.
- Fix the 'perf trace' 'trace' alias installation dir.
- Fix buffer size to report iregs in perf script python scripts, supporting
the extended registers in PowerPC.
- Fix overflow in elf_sec__is_text().
- Fix 's' on source line when disasm is empty in the annotation TUI, accessible
via 'perf annotate', 'perf report' and 'perf top'.
- Plug leaks in scandir() returned dirent entries in 'perf test' when sorting
the shell tests.
- Fix --task and --stat with pipe input in 'perf report'.
- Fix 'perf probe' use of debuginfo files by build id.
- If a DSO has both dynsym and symtab ELF sections, read from both when loading
the symbol table, fixing a problem processing Fedora 32 glibc DSOs.
Libraries:
- Add grouping of events to libperf, from code in tools/perf, allowing
libperf users to use that mode.
Misc:
- Filter plt stubs from the 'perf probe --functions' output.
- Update UAPI header copies for asound, DRM, mman-common.h and the ones
affected by the quotactl_fd syscall.
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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Merge tag 'perf-tools-for-v5.14-2021-07-10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux
Pull more perf tool updates from Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo:
"New features:
- Enable use of BPF counters with 'perf stat --for-each-cgroup',
using per-CPU 'cgroup-switch' events with an attached BPF program
that does aggregation per-cgroup in the kernel instead of using
per-cgroup perf events.
- Add Topdown metrics L2 events as default events in 'perf stat' for
systems having those events.
Hardware tracing:
- Add a config for max loops without consuming a packet in the Intel
PT packet decoder, set via 'perf config intel-pt.max-loops=N'
Hardware enablement:
- Disable misleading NMI watchdog message in 'perf stat' on hybrid
systems such as Intel Alder Lake.
- Add a dummy event on hybrid systems to collect metadata records.
- Add 24x7 nest metric events for the Power10 platform.
Fixes:
- Fix event parsing for PMUs starting with the same prefix.
- Fix the 'perf trace' 'trace' alias installation dir.
- Fix buffer size to report iregs in perf script python scripts,
supporting the extended registers in PowerPC.
- Fix overflow in elf_sec__is_text().
- Fix 's' on source line when disasm is empty in the annotation TUI,
accessible via 'perf annotate', 'perf report' and 'perf top'.
- Plug leaks in scandir() returned dirent entries in 'perf test' when
sorting the shell tests.
- Fix --task and --stat with pipe input in 'perf report'.
- Fix 'perf probe' use of debuginfo files by build id.
- If a DSO has both dynsym and symtab ELF sections, read from both
when loading the symbol table, fixing a problem processing Fedora
32 glibc DSOs.
Libraries:
- Add grouping of events to libperf, from code in tools/perf,
allowing libperf users to use that mode.
Misc:
- Filter plt stubs from the 'perf probe --functions' output.
- Update UAPI header copies for asound, DRM, mman-common.h and the
ones affected by the quotactl_fd syscall"
* tag 'perf-tools-for-v5.14-2021-07-10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux: (29 commits)
perf test: Add free() calls for scandir() returned dirent entries
libperf: Add tests for perf_evlist__set_leader()
libperf: Remove BUG_ON() from library code in get_group_fd()
libperf: Add group support to perf_evsel__open()
perf tools: Fix pattern matching for same substring in different PMU type
perf record: Add a dummy event on hybrid systems to collect metadata records
perf stat: Add Topdown metrics L2 events as default events
libperf: Adopt evlist__set_leader() from tools/perf as perf_evlist__set_leader()
libperf: Move 'nr_groups' from tools/perf to evlist::nr_groups
libperf: Move 'leader' from tools/perf to perf_evsel::leader
libperf: Move 'idx' from tools/perf to perf_evsel::idx
libperf: Change tests to single static and shared binaries
perf intel-pt: Add a config for max loops without consuming a packet
perf stat: Disable the NMI watchdog message on hybrid
perf vendor events power10: Adds 24x7 nest metric events for power10 platform
perf script python: Fix buffer size to report iregs in perf script
perf trace: Fix the perf trace link location
perf top: Fix overflow in elf_sec__is_text()
perf annotate: Fix 's' on source line when disasm is empty
perf probe: Do not show @plt function by default
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