Merge branch 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

Pull perf fixes from Thomas Gleixner:
 - fix for do_div() abuse on x86
 - locking fix in perf core
 - a pile of (build) fixes and cleanups in perf tools

* 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (27 commits)
  perf/x86: Fix incorrect use of do_div() in NMI warning
  perf: Fix perf_lock_task_context() vs RCU
  perf: Remove WARN_ON_ONCE() check in __perf_event_enable() for valid scenario
  perf: Clone child context from parent context pmu
  perf script: Fix broken include in Context.xs
  perf tools: Fix -ldw/-lelf link test when static linking
  perf tools: Revert regression in configuration of Python support
  perf tools: Fix perf version generation
  perf stat: Fix per-socket output bug for uncore events
  perf symbols: Fix vdso list searching
  perf evsel: Fix missing increment in sample parsing
  perf tools: Update symbol_conf.nr_events when processing attribute events
  perf tools: Fix new_term() missing free on error path
  perf tools: Fix parse_events_terms() segfault on error path
  perf evsel: Fix count parameter to read call in event_format__new
  perf tools: fix a typo of a Power7 event name
  perf tools: Fix -x/--exclude-other option for report command
  perf evlist: Enhance perf_evlist__start_workload()
  perf record: Remove -f/--force option
  perf record: Remove -A/--append option
  ...

3 files changed, 6 insertions, 18 deletions

diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/Makefile b/tools/perf/Documentation/Makefile
index eb30044a922a..5a37a7c84e69 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/Makefile
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/Makefile
@@ -1,12 +1,6 @@
+include ../../scripts/Makefile.include
 include ../config/utilities.mak
 
-OUTPUT := ./
-ifeq ("$(origin O)", "command line")
-  ifneq ($(O),)
-	OUTPUT := $(O)/
-  endif
-endif
-
 MAN1_TXT= \
 	$(filter-out $(addsuffix .txt, $(ARTICLES) $(SP_ARTICLES)), \
 		$(wildcard perf-*.txt)) \
@@ -150,7 +144,7 @@ NO_SUBDIR = :
 endif
 
 ifneq ($(findstring $(MAKEFLAGS),s),s)
-ifndef V
+ifneq ($(V),1)
 	QUIET_ASCIIDOC	= @echo '   ' ASCIIDOC $@;
 	QUIET_XMLTO	= @echo '   ' XMLTO $@;
 	QUIET_DB2TEXI	= @echo '   ' DB2TEXI $@;
@@ -277,7 +271,7 @@ $(MAN_HTML): $(OUTPUT)%.html : %.txt
 
 $(OUTPUT)%.1 $(OUTPUT)%.5 $(OUTPUT)%.7 : $(OUTPUT)%.xml
 	$(QUIET_XMLTO)$(RM) $@ && \
-	$(XMLTO) -o $(OUTPUT) -m $(MANPAGE_XSL) $(XMLTO_EXTRA) man $<
+	$(XMLTO) -o $(OUTPUT). -m $(MANPAGE_XSL) $(XMLTO_EXTRA) man $<
 
 $(OUTPUT)%.xml : %.txt
 	$(QUIET_ASCIIDOC)$(RM) $@+ $@ && \
diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/examples.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/examples.txt
index 77f952762426..a4e392156488 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/examples.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/examples.txt
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ Furthermore, these tracepoints can be used to sample the workload as
 well. For example the page allocations done by a 'git gc' can be
 captured the following way:
 
- titan:~/git> perf record -f -e kmem:mm_page_alloc -c 1 ./git gc
+ titan:~/git> perf record -e kmem:mm_page_alloc -c 1 ./git gc
  Counting objects: 1148, done.
  Delta compression using up to 2 threads.
  Compressing objects: 100% (450/450), done.
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ Furthermore, call-graph sampling can be done too, of page
 allocations - to see precisely what kind of page allocations there
 are:
 
- titan:~/git> perf record -f -g -e kmem:mm_page_alloc -c 1 ./git gc
+ titan:~/git> perf record -g -e kmem:mm_page_alloc -c 1 ./git gc
  Counting objects: 1148, done.
  Delta compression using up to 2 threads.
  Compressing objects: 100% (450/450), done.
diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt
index d4da111ef53d..e297b74471b8 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt
@@ -65,16 +65,10 @@ OPTIONS
 -r::
 --realtime=::
 	Collect data with this RT SCHED_FIFO priority.
+
 -D::
 --no-delay::
 	Collect data without buffering.
--A::
---append::
-	Append to the output file to do incremental profiling.
-
--f::
---force::
-	Overwrite existing data file. (deprecated)
 
 -c::
 --count=::