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Ingo Molnar e2cf00c257 New features:

- Introduce 'perf ftrace' a perf front end to the kernel's ftrace
   function and function_graph tracer, defaulting to the "function_graph"
   tracer, more work will be done in reviving this effort, forward porting
   it from its initial patch submission (Namhyung Kim)
 
 - Add 'e' and 'c' hotkeys to expand/collapse call chains for a single
   hist entry in the 'perf report' and 'perf top' TUI (Jiri Olsa)
 
 Fixes:
 
 - Fix wrong register name for arm64, used in 'perf probe' (He Kuang)
 
 - Fix map offsets in relocation in libbpf (Joe Stringer)
 
 - Fix looking up dwarf unwind stack info (Matija Glavinic Pecotic)
 
 Infrastructure:
 
 - libbpf prog functions sync with what is exported via uapi (Joe Stringer)
 
 Trivial:
 
 - Remove unnecessary checks and assignments in 'perf probe's
   try_to_find_absolute_address() (Markus Elfring)
 
 Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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Merge tag 'perf-core-for-mingo-4.11-20170126' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux into perf/core

Pull the latest perf/core updates from Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo:

New features:

 - Introduce 'perf ftrace' a perf front end to the kernel's ftrace
   function and function_graph tracer, defaulting to the "function_graph"
   tracer, more work will be done in reviving this effort, forward porting
   it from its initial patch submission (Namhyung Kim)

 - Add 'e' and 'c' hotkeys to expand/collapse call chains for a single
   hist entry in the 'perf report' and 'perf top' TUI (Jiri Olsa)

Fixes:

 - Fix wrong register name for arm64, used in 'perf probe' (He Kuang)

 - Fix map offsets in relocation in libbpf (Joe Stringer)

 - Fix looking up dwarf unwind stack info (Matija Glavinic Pecotic)

Infrastructure changes:

 - libbpf prog functions sync with what is exported via uapi (Joe Stringer)

Trivial changes:

 - Remove unnecessary checks and assignments in 'perf probe's
   try_to_find_absolute_address() (Markus Elfring)

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

2017-01-26 16:20:59 +01:00

arch

perf probe: Fix wrong register name for arm64

2017-01-26 11:42:43 -03:00

bench

perf bench futex: Fix lock-pi help string

2016-12-20 09:37:40 -03:00

Documentation

perf ftrace: Introduce new 'ftrace' tool

2017-01-26 11:43:01 -03:00

jvmti

perf kvmti: Remove unused Makefile file