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author | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2017-03-07 08:14:14 +0100 |
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committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2017-03-07 08:14:14 +0100 |
commit | 84e5b549214f2160c12318aac549de85f600c79a (patch) | |
tree | 4570a6b88f21879d43f981bf6939b7c6e033374b /Documentation | |
parent | Linux 4.11-rc1 (diff) | |
parent | perf bench numa: Add more comment for -c option (diff) | |
download | linux-84e5b549214f2160c12318aac549de85f600c79a.tar.xz linux-84e5b549214f2160c12318aac549de85f600c79a.zip |
Merge tag 'perf-core-for-mingo-4.11-20170306' 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:
New features:
- Allow sorting by symbol_size in 'perf report' and 'perf top' (Charles Baylis)
E.g.:
# perf report -s symbol_size,symbol
Samples: 9K of event 'cycles:k', Event count (approx.): 2870461623
Overhead Symbol size Symbol
14.55% 326 [k] flush_tlb_mm_range
7.20% 1045 [k] filemap_map_pages
5.82% 124 [k] vma_interval_tree_insert
5.18% 2430 [k] unmap_page_range
2.57% 571 [k] vma_interval_tree_remove
1.94% 494 [k] page_add_file_rmap
1.82% 740 [k] page_remove_rmap
1.66% 1017 [k] release_pages
1.57% 1636 [k] update_blocked_averages
1.57% 76 [k] unlock_page
- Add support for -p/--pid, -a/--all-cpus and -C/--cpu in 'perf ftrace' (Namhyung Kim)
Change in behaviour:
- Make system wide (-a) the default option if no target was specified and one
of following conditions is met:
- No workload specified (current behaviour)
- A workload is specified but all requested events are system wide ones,
like uncore ones. (Jiri Olsa)
Fixes:
- Add missing initialization to the instruction decoder used in the
intel PT/BTS code, which was causing lots of failures in 'perf test',
looking for a value when there was none (Adrian Hunter)
Infrastructure changes:
- Add arch code needed to adopt the kernel's refcount_t to aid in
catching bugs when using atomic_t as a reference counter, basically
cmpxchg related functions (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
- Convert the code using atomic_t as reference counts to refcount_t
(Elena Rashetova)
- Add feature test for sched_getcpu() to more easily check for its
presence in the many libc implementations and accross different
versions of such C libraries (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
- Issue a HW watchdog disable hint in 'perf stat' for when some of the
requested events can't get counted because a PMU counter is taken by that
watchdog (Borislav Petkov).
- Add mapping for Intel's KnightsMill PMU events (Karol Wachowski)
Documentation changes:
- Clarify the term 'convergence' in:
perf bench numa numa-mem -h --show_convergence (Jiri Olsa)
Kernel code changes:
- Ensure probe location is at function entry in kretprobes (Naveen N. Rao)
- Allow return probes with offsets and absolute addresses (Naveen N. Rao)
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.txt | 2 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/trace/uprobetracer.txt | 2 |
2 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.txt b/Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.txt index e4991fb1eedc..41ef9d8efe95 100644 --- a/Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.txt +++ b/Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.txt @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ kprobes can probe (this means, all functions body except for __kprobes functions). Unlike the Tracepoint based event, this can be added and removed dynamically, on the fly. -To enable this feature, build your kernel with CONFIG_KPROBE_EVENT=y. +To enable this feature, build your kernel with CONFIG_KPROBE_EVENTS=y. Similar to the events tracer, this doesn't need to be activated via current_tracer. Instead of that, add probe points via diff --git a/Documentation/trace/uprobetracer.txt b/Documentation/trace/uprobetracer.txt index fa7b680ee8a0..bf526a7c5559 100644 --- a/Documentation/trace/uprobetracer.txt +++ b/Documentation/trace/uprobetracer.txt @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ Overview -------- Uprobe based trace events are similar to kprobe based trace events. -To enable this feature, build your kernel with CONFIG_UPROBE_EVENT=y. +To enable this feature, build your kernel with CONFIG_UPROBE_EVENTS=y. Similar to the kprobe-event tracer, this doesn't need to be activated via current_tracer. Instead of that, add probe points via |