kernel/linux.git/tools/perf/config, branch v3.16.4

perf tools: Emit more precise message for missing glibc static library

2014-06-09T15:14:08+00:00

When the user does: make -C tools/perf LDFLAGS=-static asking for a static build, and the glibc-static (or equivalent) is not found, the message wasn't clear, stating that one of glibc-devel or glibc-static wasn't installed, clarify it checking if -static is present in LDFLAGS. Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: David Ahern Cc: Don Zickus Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Mike Galbraith Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Stephane Eranian Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-7e0sfobbzgeydzi9gsz8ss3m@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Fix 'make help' message error

2014-06-03T19:35:12+00:00

Currently 'make help' message has such hint: use "make prefix= " to install to a particular path like make prefix=/usr/local install install-doc But this is misleading, when I specify "prefix=/usr/local", it has got no respect at all. This is because that, "DESTDIR" is considered first. In this case, "DESTDIR" has an empty value, so "prefix" is honored. However, "prefix" is unconditionally assigned to $HOME, regardless of what it is set to from command line. So our "prefix" setting got no respect and the actual destination falls back to $HOME. This patch fixes this issue and corrects the help message. Signed-off-by: Jianyu Zhan Acked-by: Namhyung Kim Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1401727474-19370-1-git-send-email-nasa4836@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa

perf tools: Add warning when disabling perl scripting support due to missing devel files

2014-06-03T19:34:16+00:00

We were just showing "libperl: OFF", unlike other features where we present the user with a message helping have a feature built in. Fix it by adding the following message: config/Makefile:450: Missing perl devel files. Disabling perl scripting support, consider installing perl-ExtUtils-Embed Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: David Ahern Cc: Don Zickus Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Mike Galbraith Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Stephane Eranian Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-t7yeud34ehimlfi6pklb29p7@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa

perf tests: Add dwarf unwind test on ARM

2014-05-16T09:39:18+00:00

Adding dwarf unwind test, that setups live machine data over the perf test thread and does the remote unwind. Need to use -fno-optimize-sibling-calls for test compilation, otherwise 'krava_*' function calls are optimized into jumps and omitted from the stack unwind. So far it was enabled only for x86. Signed-off-by: Jean Pihet Reviewed-by: Will Deacon Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Corey Ashford Cc: David Ahern Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1400229672-16104-3-git-send-email-jean.pihet@linaro.org Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa

perf tools: Get rid of on_exit() feature test

2014-05-12T09:09:50+00:00

The on_exit() function was only used in perf record but it's gone in previous patch. Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim Acked-by: Stephane Eranian Cc: Bernhard Rosenkraenzer Cc: Irina Tirdea Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1399855645-25815-2-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa

Merge tag 'perf-core-for-mingo' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jolsa/perf into perf/core

2014-05-01T06:24:59+00:00

Pull perf/core improvements and fixes from Jiri Olsa: * Wire up perf_regs and unwind support for ARM64 (Jean Pihet) * Move u64_swap union to its single user's header, evsel.h (Borislav Petkov) * Fix for s390 to properly parse tracepoints plus test code (Alexander Yarygin) * Handle EINTR error for readn/writen (Namhyung Kim) Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

perf x86: Fix perf to use non-executable stack, again

2014-04-30T15:02:30+00:00

arch/x86/tests/regs_load.S is missing the linker note about the stack requirements, therefore making the linker fall back to an executable stack. As this object gets linked against the final perf binary, it'll needlessly end up with an executable stack. Fix this by adding the appropriate linker note. Also add a global linker flag to prevent future regressions, as suggested by Jiri. This way perf won't get an executable stack even if we fail to add the .GNU-stack linker note to future assembler files. Though, doing so might create regressions the other way around, when (statically) linking against libraries needing an executable stack. But, apparently, regressing in that direction is wanted as it is an indicator of poor code quality -- or just missing linker notes. Fixes: 3c8b06f981 ("perf tests x86: Introduce perf_regs_load function") Signed-off-by: Mathias Krause Acked-by: Ingo Molnar Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1398617466-22749-1-git-send-email-minipli@googlemail.com Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa

perf tools: Fix bfd dependency libraries detection

2014-04-30T14:48:50+00:00

There's false assumption in the library detection code assuming -liberty and -lz are always present once bfd is detected. The fails on Ubuntu (14.04) as reported by Ingo. Forcing the bdf dependency libraries detection any time bfd library is detected. Reported-by: Ingo Molnar Tested-by: Ingo Molnar Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Corey Ashford Cc: David Ahern Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1398676935-6615-1-git-send-email-jolsa@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa

perf tools ARM64: Wire up perf_regs and unwind support

2014-04-29T13:31:19+00:00

This patch hooks in the perf_regs and libunwind code for ARM64. The tools/perf/arch/arm64 is created; it contains the arch specific code for DWARF unwinding. Signed-off-by: Jean Pihet Acked-by: Will Deacon Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1398688353-3737-1-git-send-email-jean.pihet@linaro.org Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa

perf tools: Disable libdw unwind for all but x86 arch

2014-04-23T11:19:18+00:00

So far there's only x86 libdw unwind support merged in perf. Disable it on all other architectures in case libdw unwind support is detected in system. Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Corey Ashford Cc: David Ahern Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Jean Pihet Cc: Josh Boyer Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1397988006-14158-1-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa