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:

- Allow using trace events fields as sort order keys, making 'perf evlist --trace_fields'
  show those, and then the user can select a subset and use like:

    perf top -e sched:sched_switch -s prev_comm,next_comm

  That works as well in 'perf report' when handling files containing
  tracepoints.

  The default when just tracepoint events are found in a perf.data file is to
  format it like ftrace, using the libtraceevent formatters, plugins, etc (Namhyung Kim)

- Add support in 'perf script' to process 'perf stat record' generated files,
  culminating in a python perf script that calculates CPI (Cycles per
  Instruction) (Jiri Olsa)

- Show random perf tool tips in the 'perf report' bottom line (Namhyung Kim)

- perf report now defaults to --group if the perf.data file has grouped events, try it with:

  # perf record -e '{cycles,instructions}' -a sleep 1
  [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
  [ perf record: Captured and wrote 1.093 MB perf.data (1247 samples) ]
  # perf report
  # Samples: 1K of event 'anon group { cycles, instructions }'
  # Event count (approx.): 1955219195
  #
  #       Overhead  Command     Shared Object      Symbol

     2.86%   0.22%  swapper     [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] intel_idle
     1.05%   0.33%  firefox     libxul.so          [.] js::SetObjectElement
     1.05%   0.00%  kworker/0:3 [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] gen6_ring_get_seqno
     0.88%   0.17%  chrome      chrome             [.] 0x0000000000ee27ab
     0.65%   0.86%  firefox     libxul.so          [.] js::ValueToId<(js::AllowGC)1>
     0.64%   0.23%  JS Helper   libxul.so          [.] js::SplayTree<js::jit::LiveRange*, js::jit::LiveRange>::splay
     0.62%   1.27%  firefox     libxul.so          [.] js::GetIterator
     0.61%   1.74%  firefox     libxul.so          [.] js::NativeSetProperty
     0.61%   0.31%  firefox     libxul.so          [.] js::SetPropertyByDefining

User visible fixes:

- Coect data mmaps so that the DWARF unwinder can handle usecases needing them,
  like softice (Jiri Olsa)

- Decay callchains in fractal mode, fixing up cases where 'perf top -g' would
  show entries with more than 100% (Namhyung Kim)

Infrastructure changes:

- Sync tools/lib with the lib/ in the kernel sources for find_bit.c and
  move bitmap.[ch] from tools/perf/util/ to tools/lib/ (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)

- No need to set attr.sample_freq in some 'perf test' entries that only
  want to deal with PERF_RECORD_ meta-events, improve a bit error output
  for CQM test (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)

- Fix python binding build, adding some missing object files now required
  due to cpumap using find_bit stuff (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)

- tools/build improvemnts (Jiri Olsa)

- Add more files to cscope/ctags databases (Jiri Olsa)

- Do not show 'trace' in 'perf help' if it is not compiled in (Jiri Olsa)

- Make perf_evlist__open() open evsels with their cpus and threads,
  like perf record does, making them consistent (Adrian Hunter)

- Fix pmu snapshot initialization bug (Stephane Eranian)

- Add missing headers in perf's MANIFEST (Wang Nan)

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 27 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/util.c b/tools/perf/util/util.c
index aff0cfd83662..88b8f8d21f58 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/util.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/util.c
@@ -16,6 +16,8 @@
 #include <linux/kernel.h>
 #include <unistd.h>
 #include "callchain.h"
+#include "strlist.h"
+#include <subcmd/exec-cmd.h>
 
 struct callchain_param	callchain_param = {
 	.mode	= CHAIN_GRAPH_ABS,
@@ -663,3 +665,28 @@ fetch_kernel_version(unsigned int *puint, char *str,
 		*puint = (version << 16) + (patchlevel << 8) + sublevel;
 	return 0;
 }
+
+const char *perf_tip(const char *dirpath)
+{
+	struct strlist *tips;
+	struct str_node *node;
+	char *tip = NULL;
+	struct strlist_config conf = {
+		.dirname = system_path(dirpath) ,
+	};
+
+	tips = strlist__new("tips.txt", &conf);
+	if (tips == NULL || strlist__nr_entries(tips) == 1) {
+		tip = (char *)"Cannot find tips.txt file";
+		goto out;
+	}
+
+	node = strlist__entry(tips, random() % strlist__nr_entries(tips));
+	if (asprintf(&tip, "Tip: %s", node->s) < 0)
+		tip = (char *)"Tip: get more memory! ;-)";
+
+out:
+	strlist__delete(tips);
+
+	return tip;
+}