Merge tag 'perf-core-for-mingo-5.2-20190517' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux into perf/core

Pull perf/core improvements and fixes from Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo:

perf.data:

  Alexey Budankov:

  - Streaming compression of perf ring buffer into PERF_RECORD_COMPRESSED
    user space records, resulting in ~3-5x perf.data file size reduction
    on variety of tested workloads what saves storage space on larger
    server systems where perf.data size can easily reach several tens or
    even hundreds of GiBs, especially when profiling with DWARF-based
    stacks and tracing of context switches.

perf record:

  Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

  - Improve -user-regs/intr-regs suggestions to overcome errors.

perf annotate:

  Jin Yao:

  - Remove hist__account_cycles() from callback, speeding up branch processing
    (perf record -b).

perf stat:

  - Add a 'percore' event qualifier, e.g.: -e cpu/event=0,umask=0x3,percore=1/,
    that sums up the event counts for both hardware threads in a core.

    We can already do this with --per-core, but it's often useful to do
    this together with other metrics that are collected per hardware thread.

    I.e. now its possible to do this per-event, and have it mixed with other
    events not aggregated by core.

core libraries:

  Donald Yandt:

  - Check for errors when doing fgets(/proc/version).

  Jiri Olsa:

  - Speed up report for perf compiled with linbunwind.

tools headers:

  Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

  - Update memcpy_64.S, x86's kvm.h and pt_regs.h.

arm64:

  Florian Fainelli:

  - Map Brahma-B53 CPUID to cortex-a53 events.

  - Add Cortex-A57 and Cortex-A72 events.

csky:

  Mao Han:

  - Add DWARF register mappings for libdw, allowing --call-graph=dwarf to work
    on the C-SKY arch.

x86:

  Andi Kleen/Kan Liang:

  - Add support for recording and printing XMM registers, available, for
    instance, on Icelake.

  Kan Liang:

  - Add uncore_upi (Intel's "Ultra Path Interconnect" events) JSON support.
    UPI replaced the Intel QuickPath Interconnect (QPI) in Xeon Skylake-SP.

Intel PT:

  Adrian Hunter

  . Fix instructions sampling rate.

  . Timestamp fixes.

  . Improve exported-sql-viewer GUI, allowing, for instance, to copy'n'paste
    the trees, useful for e-mailing.

Documentation:

  Thomas Richter:

  - Add description for 'perf --debug stderr=1', which redirects stderr to stdout.

libtraceevent:

  Tzvetomir Stoyanov:

  - Add man pages for the various APIs.

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

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diff --git a/tools/lib/traceevent/Documentation/libtraceevent-strerror.txt b/tools/lib/traceevent/Documentation/libtraceevent-strerror.txt
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index 000000000000..ee4062a00c9f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/lib/traceevent/Documentation/libtraceevent-strerror.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+libtraceevent(3)
+================
+
+NAME
+----
+tep_strerror - Returns a string describing regular errno and tep error number.
+
+SYNOPSIS
+--------
+[verse]
+--
+*#include <event-parse.h>*
+
+int *tep_strerror*(struct tep_handle pass:[*]_tep_, enum tep_errno _errnum_, char pass:[*]_buf_, size_t _buflen_);
+
+--
+DESCRIPTION
+-----------
+The _tep_strerror()_ function converts tep error number into a human
+readable string.
+The _tep_ argument is trace event parser context. The _errnum_ is a regular
+errno, defined in errno.h, or a tep error number. The string, describing this
+error number is copied in the _buf_ argument. The _buflen_ argument is
+the size of the _buf_.
+
+It as a thread safe wrapper around strerror_r(). The library function has two
+different behaviors - POSIX and GNU specific. The _tep_strerror()_ API always
+behaves as the POSIX version - the error string is copied in the user supplied
+buffer.
+
+RETURN VALUE
+------------
+The _tep_strerror()_ function returns 0, if a valid _errnum_ is passed and the
+string is copied into _buf_. If _errnum_ is not a valid error number,
+-1 is returned and _buf_ is not modified.
+
+EXAMPLE
+-------
+[source,c]
+--
+#include <event-parse.h>
+...
+struct tep_handle *tep = tep_alloc();
+...
+char buf[32];
+char *pool = calloc(1, 128);
+if (tep == NULL) {
+	tep_strerror(tep, TEP_ERRNO__MEM_ALLOC_FAILED, buf, 32);
+	printf ("The pool is not initialized, %s", buf);
+}
+...
+--
+
+FILES
+-----
+[verse]
+--
+*event-parse.h*
+	Header file to include in order to have access to the library APIs.
+*-ltraceevent*
+	Linker switch to add when building a program that uses the library.
+--
+
+SEE ALSO
+--------
+_libtraceevent(3)_, _trace-cmd(1)_
+
+AUTHOR
+------
+[verse]
+--
+*Steven Rostedt* <rostedt@goodmis.org>, author of *libtraceevent*.
+*Tzvetomir Stoyanov* <tz.stoyanov@gmail.com>, author of this man page.
+--
+REPORTING BUGS
+--------------
+Report bugs to  <linux-trace-devel@vger.kernel.org>
+
+LICENSE
+-------
+libtraceevent is Free Software licensed under the GNU LGPL 2.1
+
+RESOURCES
+---------
+https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git