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  1. Jul 29, 2015
    • Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo's avatar
      perf python: Add macro to simplify maintainance of the constants array · 5865fe36
      Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo authored 
      Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-ffuchgsbr5mqu91xl9oggfss@git.kernel.org


Signed-off-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
      5865fe36
    • Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo's avatar
      perf python: Remove dependency on 'machine' methods · 959c2199
      Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo authored 
      The python binding still doesn't provide symbol resolving facilities,
but the recent addition of the trace_event__register_resolver() function
made it add as a dependency the machine__resolve_kernel_addr() method,
that in turn drags all the symbol resolving code.

The problem:

  [root@zoo ~]# perf test -v python
  17: Try 'import perf' in python, checking link problems      :
  --- start ---
  test child forked, pid 6853
  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  ImportError: /tmp/build/perf/python/perf.so: undefined symbol: machine__resolve_kernel_addr
  test child finished with -1
  ---- end ----
  Try 'import perf' in python, checking link problems: FAILED!
  [root@zoo ~]#

Fix it by requiring this function to receive the resolver as a
parameter, just like pevent_register_function_resolver(), i.e. do
not explicitely refer to an object file not included in
tools/perf/util/python-ext-sources.

  [root@zoo ~]# perf test python
  17: Try 'import perf' in python, checking link problems      : Ok
  [root@zoo ~]#

Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Fixes: c3168b0d ("perf symbols: Provide libtraceevent callback to resolve kernel symbols")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-vxlhh95v2em9zdbgj3jm7xi5@git.kernel.org


Signed-off-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
      959c2199
  3. Jul 27, 2015
    • Ingo Molnar's avatar
      Merge tag 'perf-core-for-mingo' of... · 4b0c53e9
      Ingo Molnar authored 
      Merge tag 'perf-core-for-mingo' 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:

  - Introduce PERF_RECORD_SWITCH(_CPU_WIDE) and use it in 'record' to
    ask for context switches, allowing non priviledged tasks to know
    when they are switched in and out, which wasn't possible with
    the other context switch tracepoint and software events, see the
    patch description for a comprehensive justification (Adrian Hunter)

  - Stop collecting /proc/kallsyms in perf.data files, saving about
    4.5MB on a typical x86-64 system, use the the symbol resolution
    routines used in all the other tools (report, top, etc) now that
    we can ask libtraceevent to use perf's symbol resolution code.
    (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)

User visible fixes:

  - Expose perf's symbol resolver to libtraceevent, so that its plugins can
    resolve tracepoint fields to kernel functions, like the 'function' field
    in the "timer:hrtimer_start tracepoint" (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)

Infrastructure changes:

  - Map propagation of thread and cpu maps improvements, prep work for
    'perf stat' new features (Jiri Olsa)

Signed-off-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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