1. 11 May, 2016 4 commits
    • Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo's avatar
      perf scripting python: Use Py_FatalError instead of die() · 62665dff
      Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo authored
      It probably is equivalent, but that seems to be the "pythonic" way of
      dieing? Anyway, one less die() in the tools/perf codebase.
      
      Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
      Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
      Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
      Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
      Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
      Cc: Chris Phlipot <cphlipot0@gmail.com>
      Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-nlzgepdv2818zs4e7faif9tu@git.kernel.orgSigned-off-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
      62665dff
    • Ingo Molnar's avatar
      Merge tag 'perf-core-for-mingo-20160510' of... · 38f5d8b3
      Ingo Molnar authored
      Merge tag 'perf-core-for-mingo-20160510' 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:
      
      User visible changes:
      
      - Recording 'dwarf' callchains do not need DWARF unwinding support (He Kuang)
      
      - Print recently added perf_event_attr.write_backward bit flag in -vv
        verbose mode (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
      
      - Fix incorrect python db-export error message in 'perf script' (Chris Phlipot)
      
      - Fix handling of zero-length symbols (Chris Phlipot)
      
      - perf stat: Scale values by unit before metrics (Andi Kleen)
      
      Infrastructure changes:
      
      - Rewrite strbuf not to die(), making tools using it to check its
        return value instead (Masami Hiramatsu)
      
      - Support reading from backward ring buffer, add a 'perf test' entry
        for it (Wang Nan)
      Signed-off-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
      38f5d8b3
    • Ingo Molnar's avatar
      d2950158
    • Namhyung Kim's avatar
      perf diff: Fix duplicated output column · e9d848cb
      Namhyung Kim authored
      The commit b97511c5 ("perf tools: Add overhead/overhead_children
      keys defaults via string") moved initialization of column headers but it
      missed to check the sort__mode.  As 'perf diff' doesn't call
      perf_hpp__init(), the setup_overhead() also should not be called.
      
      Before:
      
        # Baseline    Delta  Children  Overhead  Shared Object        Symbol
        # ........  .......  ........  ........  ...................  .......................
        #
            28.48%  -28.47%    28.48%    28.48%  [kernel.vmlinux ]    [k] intel_idle
            11.51%  -11.47%    11.51%    11.51%  libxul.so            [.] 0x0000000001a360f7
             3.49%   -3.49%     3.49%     3.49%  [kernel.vmlinux]     [k] generic_exec_single
             2.91%   -2.89%     2.91%     2.91%  libdbus-1.so.3.8.11  [.] 0x000000000000cdc2
             2.86%   -2.85%     2.86%     2.86%  libxcb.so.1.1.0      [.] 0x000000000000c890
             2.44%   -2.39%     2.44%     2.44%  [kernel.vmlinux]     [k] perf_event_aux_ctx
      
      After:
      
        # Baseline    Delta  Shared Object        Symbol
        # ........  .......  ...................  .......................
        #
            28.48%  -28.47%  [kernel.vmlinux]     [k] intel_idle
            11.51%  -11.47%  libxul.so            [.] 0x0000000001a360f7
             3.49%   -3.49%  [kernel.vmlinux]     [k] generic_exec_single
             2.91%   -2.89%  libdbus-1.so.3.8.11  [.] 0x000000000000cdc2
             2.86%   -2.85%  libxcb.so.1.1.0      [.] 0x000000000000c890
             2.44%   -2.39%  [kernel.vmlinux]     [k] perf_event_aux_ctx
      Signed-off-by: default avatarNamhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
      Acked-by: default avatarJiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
      Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 4.5+
      Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
      Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Fixes: b97511c5 ("perf tools: Add overhead/overhead_children keys defaults via string")
      Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1462890384-12486-2-git-send-email-acme@kernel.orgSigned-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
      e9d848cb
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