linux/tools, branch v2.6.37.5

perf tools: Version incorrect with some versions of grep

2011-03-23T19:50:37Z

commit 58d406ed6a5f1ca4bc1dba5390b718c67847fa5f upstream. Some versions of grep don't treat '\s' properly. When building perf on such systems and using a kernel tarball the perf version is unable to be determined from the main kernel Makefile and the user is left with a version of '..'. Replacing the use of '\s' with '[[:space:]]', which should work in all grep versions, gives a usable version number. Reported-by: Tapan Dhimant Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Tapan Dhimant Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org LKML-Reference: <1300241800-30281-1-git-send-email-johunt@akamai.com> Signed-off-by: Josh Hunt Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

perf timechart: Adjust perf timechart to the new power events

2011-02-24T22:54:25Z

commit 20c457b8587bee4644d998331d9e13be82e05b4c upstream. [This patch is part of mainline git commit 20c457b8587bee4644d9. This should fix: http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org/msg00057.html The regression was introduced by git commit: 4c21adf26f8fcf86a755b9b9f55c2e9fd241e1fb] builtin-timechart must only pass -e power:xy events if they are supported by the running kernel, otherwise try to fetch the old power:power{start,end} events. For this I added the tiny helper function: int is_valid_tracepoint(const char *event_string) to parse-events.[hc], which could be more generic as an interface and support hardware/software/... events, not only tracepoints, but someone else could extend that if needed... Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger Acked-by: Arjan van de Ven Acked-by: Jean Pihet LKML-Reference: <1294073445-14812-4-git-send-email-trenn@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

perf: Fix callchain hit bad cast on ascii display

2011-01-03T15:13:11Z

ipchain__fprintf_graph() casts the number of hits in a branch as an int, which means we lose its highests bits. This results in meaningless number of callchain hits in perf.data that have a high number of hits recorded, typically those that have callchain branches hits appearing more than INT_MAX. This happens easily as those are pondered by the event period. Reported-by: Nick Piggin Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Paul Mackerras

perf probe: Fix to support libdwfl older than 0.148

2010-12-21T21:24:57Z

Since the libdwfl library before 0.148 fails to analyze live kernel debuginfo, 'perf probe --list' compiled with those old libdwfl sometimes crashes. To avoid that bug, perf probe does not use libdwfl's live kernel analysis routine when it is compiled with older libdwfl. Side effect: perf with older libdwfl doesn't support listing probe in modules with source code line. Those could be shown by symbol+offset. Cc: 2nddept-manager@sdl.hitachi.co.jp Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Srikar Dronamraju Cc: Steven Rostedt LKML-Reference: <20101217131218.24123.62424.stgit@ltc236.sdl.hitachi.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Fix lazy wildcard matching

2010-12-21T21:15:42Z

Fix lazy wildcard matching to ignore space after wild card. Cc: 2nddept-manager@sdl.hitachi.co.jp Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Hitoshi Mitake Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Srikar Dronamraju Cc: Steven Rostedt LKML-Reference: <20101217131200.24123.8202.stgit@ltc236.sdl.hitachi.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf buildid-list: Fix error return for success

2010-12-16T11:43:47Z

It was always returning -1 (255), confusing test scripts. Reported-by: Han Pingtian Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Han Pingtian Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Mike Galbraith Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Stephane Eranian Cc: Tom Zanussi LKML-Reference: Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf buildid-cache: Fix symbolic link handling

2010-12-16T11:41:45Z

This was broken since link(2) doesn't dereference symbolic links. Instead 'filename' becomes a symbolic link to the same file that 'name' refers to. This had the bad effect to create dangling symlinks in the case that even can't be removed with perf-buildid-cache(1). LKML-Reference: Signed-off-by: Franck Bui-Huu Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf symbols: Stop using vmlinux files with no symbols

2010-12-16T11:41:45Z

Fail if the kernel image contains no symbol, allowing using other images in the vmlinux search path that may have a usable symtab. Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu Cc: 2nddept-manager@sdl.hitachi.co.jp Cc: Francis Moreau Cc: Franck Bui-Huu Cc: Masami Hiramatsu LPU-Reference: Signed-off-by: Franck Bui-Huu Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf probe: Fix use of kernel image path given by 'k' option

2010-12-16T11:41:45Z

Users were not being able to have the explicitely specified vmlinux pathname used, instead a search on the vmlinux path was always being made. Reported-by: Francis Moreau Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu Cc: 2nddept-manager@sdl.hitachi.co.jp Cc: Francis Moreau Cc: Franck Bui-Huu Cc: Masami Hiramatsu LPU-Reference: Signed-off-by: Franck Bui-Huu Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf record: Fix eternal wait for stillborn child

2010-12-06T17:13:38Z

When execvp fails to find the specified command on the path we won't get SIGCHLD, so send a SIGUSR1 and exit right away. Current situation would require a SIGINT performed by the user and would produce meaningless summary. Now: [acme@emilia linux]$ ./foo -bash: ./foo: No such file or directory [acme@emilia linux]$ perf record ./foo ./foo: No such file or directory [acme@emilia linux]$ Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Mike Galbraith Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Stephane Eranian Cc: Tom Zanussi Cc: Thomas Gleixner LKML-Reference: Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo