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<subtitle>Hosts the 0x221E linux distro kernel.</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>perf tools: Fix compilation errors on gcc8</title>
<updated>2018-08-24T11:07:06Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Jiri Olsa</name>
<email>jolsa@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-07-02T13:42:01Z</published>
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[ Upstream commit a09603f851045b031e990d2d663958ccb49db525 ]

We are getting following warnings on gcc8 that break compilation:

  $ make
    CC       jvmti/jvmti_agent.o
  jvmti/jvmti_agent.c: In function ‘jvmti_open’:
  jvmti/jvmti_agent.c:252:35: error: ‘/jit-’ directive output may be truncated \
    writing 5 bytes into a region of size between 1 and 4096 [-Werror=format-truncation=]
    snprintf(dump_path, PATH_MAX, "%s/jit-%i.dump", jit_path, getpid());

There's no point in checking the result of snprintf call in
jvmti_open, the following open call will fail in case the
name is mangled or too long.

Using tools/lib/ function scnprintf that touches the return value from
the snprintf() calls and thus get rid of those warnings.

  $ make DEBUG=1
    CC       arch/x86/util/perf_regs.o
  arch/x86/util/perf_regs.c: In function ‘arch_sdt_arg_parse_op’:
  arch/x86/util/perf_regs.c:229:4: error: ‘strncpy’ output truncated before terminating nul
  copying 2 bytes from a string of the same length [-Werror=stringop-truncation]
    strncpy(prefix, "+0", 2);
    ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Using scnprintf instead of the strncpy (which we know is safe in here)
to get rid of that warning.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Alexander Shishkin &lt;alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180702134202.17745-1-jolsa@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>perf report powerpc: Fix crash if callchain is empty</title>
<updated>2018-08-24T11:06:50Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Sandipan Das</name>
<email>sandipan@linux.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-06-11T10:40:49Z</published>
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[ Upstream commit 143c99f6ac6812d23254e80844d6e34be897d3e1 ]

For some cases, the callchain provided by the kernel may be empty. So,
the callchain ip filtering code will cause a crash if we do not check
whether the struct ip_callchain pointer is NULL before accessing any
members.

This can be observed on a powerpc64le system running Fedora 27 as shown
below.

  # perf record -b -e cycles:u ls

Before:

  # perf report --branch-history

  perf: Segmentation fault
  -------- backtrace --------
  perf[0x1027615c]
  linux-vdso64.so.1(__kernel_sigtramp_rt64+0x0)[0x7fff856304d8]
  perf(arch_skip_callchain_idx+0x44)[0x10257c58]
  perf[0x1017f2e4]
  perf(thread__resolve_callchain+0x124)[0x1017ff5c]
  perf(sample__resolve_callchain+0xf0)[0x10172788]
  ...

After:

  # perf report --branch-history

  Samples: 25  of event 'cycles:u', Event count (approx.): 2306870
    Overhead  Source:Line            Symbol                   Shared Object
  +   11.60%  _init+35736            [.] _init                ls
  +    9.84%  strcoll_l.c:137        [.] __strcoll_l          libc-2.26.so
  +    9.16%  memcpy.S:175           [.] __memcpy_power7      libc-2.26.so
  +    9.01%  gconv_charset.h:54     [.] _nl_find_locale      libc-2.26.so
  +    8.87%  dl-addr.c:52           [.] _dl_addr             libc-2.26.so
  +    8.83%  _init+236              [.] _init                ls
  ...

Reported-by: Ravi Bangoria &lt;ravi.bangoria@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sandipan Das &lt;sandipan@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Ravi Bangoria &lt;ravi.bangoria@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Naveen N. Rao &lt;naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu &lt;sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180611104049.11048-1-sandipan@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<title>perf record: Fix s390 undefined record__auxtrace_init() return value</title>
<updated>2018-04-23T15:05:02Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Richter</name>
<email>tmricht@linux.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-04-23T14:29:40Z</published>
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Command 'perf record' calls:

  cmd_report()
    record__auxtrace_init()
       auxtrace_record__init()

On s390 function auxtrace_record__init() returns random return value due
to missing initialization.

This sometime causes 'perf record' to exit immediately without error
message and creating a perf.data file.

Fix this by setting error the return code to zero before returning from
platform specific functions which may not set the error code in call
cases.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Richter &lt;tmricht@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Hendrik Brueckner &lt;brueckner@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180423142940.21143-1-tmricht@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
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<title>perf list: Remove s390 specific strcmp_cpuid_cmp function</title>
<updated>2018-04-23T14:03:13Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Richter</name>
<email>tmricht@linux.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-04-23T08:17:45Z</published>
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Make the type field in pmu-events/arch/s390/mapfile.cvs more generic to
match the created cpuid string for s390.

The pattern also checks for the counter first version number and counter
second version number ([13]\.[1-5]) and the authorization field which
follows.

These numbers do not exist in the cpuid identification string when perf
commands are executed on a z/VM environment (which does not support CPU
counter measurement facility).

CPUID string for LPAR:
   cpuid : IBM,3906,704,M03,3.5,002f
CPUID string for z/VM:
   cpuid : IBM,2964,702,N96

This allows the removal of s390 specific cpuid compare code and uses the
common compare function with its regular expression matching algorithm.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Richter &lt;tmricht@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Hendrik Brueckner &lt;brueckner@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180423081745.3672-1-tmricht@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>coresight: Move to SPDX identifier</title>
<updated>2018-04-19T15:29:41Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Mathieu Poirier</name>
<email>mathieu.poirier@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-04-18T22:05:18Z</published>
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Move CoreSight headers to the SPDX identifier.

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Poirier &lt;mathieu.poirier@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Alexander Shishkin &lt;alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1524089118-27595-1-git-send-email-mathieu.poirier@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>tools/headers: Synchronize kernel ABI headers, v4.17-rc1</title>
<updated>2018-04-17T12:47:39Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Ingo Molnar</name>
<email>mingo@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-04-16T06:18:22Z</published>
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Sync the following tooling headers with the latest kernel version:

  tools/arch/arm/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h
    - New ABI: KVM_REG_ARM_*

  tools/arch/x86/include/asm/required-features.h
    - Removal of NEED_LA57 dependency

  tools/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h
    - New KVM ABI: KVM_SYNC_X86_*

  tools/include/uapi/asm-generic/mman-common.h
    - New ABI: MAP_FIXED_NOREPLACE flag

  tools/include/uapi/linux/bpf.h
    - New ABI: BPF_F_SEQ_NUMBER functions

  tools/include/uapi/linux/if_link.h
    - New ABI: IFLA tun and rmnet support

  tools/include/uapi/linux/kvm.h
    - New ABI: hyperv eventfd and CONN_ID_MASK support plus header cleanups

  tools/include/uapi/sound/asound.h
    - New ABI: SNDRV_PCM_FORMAT_FIRST PCM format specifier

  tools/perf/arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_64.tbl
    - The x86 system call table description changed due to the ptregs changes and the renames, in:

	d5a00528b58c: syscalls/core, syscalls/x86: Rename struct pt_regs-based sys_*() to __x64_sys_*()
	5ac9efa3c50d: syscalls/core, syscalls/x86: Clean up compat syscall stub naming convention
	ebeb8c82ffaf: syscalls/x86: Use 'struct pt_regs' based syscall calling for IA32_EMULATION and x32

Also fix the x86 syscall table warning:

  -Warning: Kernel ABI header at 'tools/arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_64.tbl' differs from latest version at 'arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_64.tbl'
  +Warning: Kernel ABI header at 'tools/perf/arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_64.tbl' differs from latest version at 'arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_64.tbl'

None of these changes impact existing tooling code, so we only have to copy the kernel version.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Adrian Hunter &lt;adrian.hunter@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Potapenko &lt;glider@google.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Shishkin &lt;alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Alexey Budankov &lt;alexey.budankov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin &lt;aryabinin@virtuozzo.com&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Brian Robbins &lt;brianrob@microsoft.com&gt;
Cc: Clark Williams &lt;williams@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Cc: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Dmitriy Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt; &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Hendrik Brueckner &lt;brueckner@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Jesper Dangaard Brouer &lt;brouer@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jin Yao &lt;yao.jin@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Kan Liang &lt;kan.liang@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Kim Phillips &lt;kim.phillips@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Li Zhijian &lt;lizhijian@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Martin Liška &lt;mliska@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Matthias Kaehlcke &lt;mka@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Miguel Bernal Marin &lt;miguel.bernal.marin@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Naveen N. Rao &lt;naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Ravi Bangoria &lt;ravi.bangoria@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Sandipan Das &lt;sandipan@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Stephane Eranian &lt;eranian@google.com&gt;
Cc: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
Cc: Takuya Yamamoto &lt;tkydevel@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Thomas Richter &lt;tmricht@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Wang Nan &lt;wangnan0@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: William Cohen &lt;wcohen@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Yonghong Song &lt;yhs@fb.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180416064024.ofjtrz5yuu3ykhvl@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
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<title>perf annotate: Handle variables in 'sub', 'or' and many other instructions</title>
<updated>2018-04-13T13:00:05Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo</name>
<email>acme@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-04-12T19:28:18Z</published>
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Just like is done for 'mov' and others that can have as source or
targets variables resolved by objdump, to make them more compact:

-               orb    $0x4,0x224d71(%rip)        # 226ca4 &lt;_rtld_global+0xca4&gt;
+               orb    $0x4,_rtld_global+0xca4

Cc: Adrian Hunter &lt;adrian.hunter@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Jin Yao &lt;yao.jin@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Martin Liška &lt;mliska@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Ravi Bangoria &lt;ravi.bangoria@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Richter &lt;tmricht@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Wang Nan &lt;wangnan0@huawei.com&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-efex7746id4w4wa03nqxvh3m@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
</content>
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<entry>
<title>perf tests: Run dwarf unwind test on arm32</title>
<updated>2018-04-12T12:30:37Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Kim Phillips</name>
<email>kim.phillips@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-04-11T00:16:24Z</published>
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Enable the unwind test on arm32:

  $ perf test unwind
  58: DWARF unwind                                          : Ok

Signed-off-by: Kim Phillips &lt;kim.phillips@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Shishkin &lt;alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Brian Robbins &lt;brianrob@microsoft.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180410191624.a3a468670dd4548c66d3d094@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>perf annotate: Pass function descriptor to its instruction parsing routines</title>
<updated>2018-03-21T19:19:41Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo</name>
<email>acme@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-03-20T19:19:08Z</published>
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We need that to figure out if jumps have targets in a different
function.

E.g. _cpp_lex_token(), in /usr/libexec/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/5.3.1/cc1
has a line like this:

  jne    c469be &lt;cpp_named_operator2name@@Base+0xa72&gt;

Cc: Adrian Hunter &lt;adrian.hunter@intel.com&gt;
Cc: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Wang Nan &lt;wangnan0@huawei.com&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-ris0ioziyp469pofpzix2atb@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>perf tools arm64: Add libdw DWARF post unwind support for ARM64</title>
<updated>2018-03-16T16:53:46Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Kim Phillips</name>
<email>kim.phillips@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-03-09T03:10:30Z</published>
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Based on prior work:

  https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/5/6/395

and on how other arches add libdw unwind support.  Includes support for
running the unwind test, e.g., on a system with only elfutils' libdw
0.170, the test now runs, and successfully:

  $ ./perf test unwind
  56: Test dwarf unwind                 : Ok

Originally-by: Jean Pihet &lt;jean.pihet@linaro.org&gt;
Reported-by: Christian Hansen &lt;chansen3@cisco.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kim Phillips &lt;kim.phillips@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Shishkin &lt;alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180308211030.4ee4a0d6ff6dc5cda1b567d4@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
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