perf tools: Build with frame pointer

It seems that some gcc versions build by default with frame pointers
and some others omit them.

Just build the tools with frame pointers as

perf tools: Build with frame pointer

It seems that some gcc versions build by default with frame pointers
and some others omit them.

Just build the tools with frame pointers as the callchains can be an
important part of the perf workflow.

Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
LKML-Reference: <1294325513-14276-3-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

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perf tools: Introduce event selectors

Out of ad-hoc code and global arrays with hard coded sizes.

This is the first step on having a library that will be first
used on regressio

perf tools: Introduce event selectors

Out of ad-hoc code and global arrays with hard coded sizes.

This is the first step on having a library that will be first
used on regression tests in the 'perf test' tool.

[acme@felicio linux]$ size /tmp/perf.before
text data bss dec hex filename
1273776 97384 5104416 6475576 62cf38 /tmp/perf.before
[acme@felicio linux]$ size /tmp/perf.new
text data bss dec hex filename
1275422 97416 1392416 2765254 2a31c6 /tmp/perf.new

Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

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perf makefile: Allow strong and weak functions in LIB_OBJS

When we build perf we place all of the .o files from the library files
(util, arch/x/util, etc) into libperf.a which is then li

perf makefile: Allow strong and weak functions in LIB_OBJS

When we build perf we place all of the .o files from the library files
(util, arch/x/util, etc) into libperf.a which is then linked into perf.

The problem is that the linker will by default only consider .o files
within the .a archive if they are necessary to satisfy an unresolved
symbol. As weak functions are not unresolved, it will not consider a .o
file from the archive containing the strong versions of weak functions
unless it requires it for another reason.

This patch adds the --whole-archive flags to the linker when passing in
the libperf.a file to ensure that it will consider every .o file in the
archive, not just what it believes that it needs. The end result is that
weak functions can now be overridden by strong variants of them in the
libperf.a file.

Cc: "tom.leiming" <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1290991642-sup-5890@au1.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ian Munsie <imunsie@au1.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

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Merge branch 'perf/rename' into perf/core

Merge reason: This is an older commit under testing that was not pushed yet - merge it.

Also fix up the merge in command-list.txt.

Merge branch 'perf/rename' into perf/core

Merge reason: This is an older commit under testing that was not pushed yet - merge it.

Also fix up the merge in command-list.txt.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>

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perf bench: Add feature that measures the performance of the arch/x86/lib/memcpy_64.S memcpy routines via 'perf bench mem'

This patch ports arch/x86/lib/memcpy_64.S to perf bench mem
mem

perf bench: Add feature that measures the performance of the arch/x86/lib/memcpy_64.S memcpy routines via 'perf bench mem'

This patch ports arch/x86/lib/memcpy_64.S to perf bench mem
memcpy for benchmarking memcpy() in userland with tricky and
dirty way.

util/include/asm/cpufeature.h, util/include/asm/dwarf2.h, and
util/include/linux/linkage.h are mostly dummy files with small
wrappers, so that we are able to include memcpy_64.S
unmodified.

Signed-off-by: Hitoshi Mitake <mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp>
Cc: h.mitake@gmail.com
Cc: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Ma Ling <ling.ma@intel.com>
Cc: Zhao Yakui <yakui.zhao@intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
LKML-Reference: <1290668693-27068-2-git-send-email-mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

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perf tools: Remove hardcoded include paths for elfutils

This change removes the use of hardcoded absolute "/usr/include/elfutils" paths
from the perf build. The problem with hardcoded p

perf tools: Remove hardcoded include paths for elfutils

This change removes the use of hardcoded absolute "/usr/include/elfutils" paths
from the perf build. The problem with hardcoded paths is that it prevents them
from being overridden by $prefix or by -I in CFLAGS (e.g., for cross-compiling
purposes).

Instead, just include the "elfutils/" subdirectory as a relative path when
files are needed from that directory.

Tested by building perf:
- Cross-compiled for ARM on x86_64
- Built natively on x86_64
- Built on x86_64 with /usr/include/elfutils moved to another location
and manually included in CFLAGS

Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
LKML-Reference: <1289945793-31441-1-git-send-email-rmorell@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Robert Morell <rmorell@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

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perf: Rename 'perf trace' to 'perf script'

Free the perf trace name space and rename the trace to 'script' which is a
better match for the scripting engine.

Signed-off-by: Ingo

perf: Rename 'perf trace' to 'perf script'

Free the perf trace name space and rename the trace to 'script' which is a
better match for the scripting engine.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

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Merge branch 'perf/urgent' into perf/core

Conflicts:
tools/perf/util/ui/browsers/hists.c

Merge reason: fix the conflict and merge in changes for dependent patch.

Merge branch 'perf/urgent' into perf/core

Conflicts:
tools/perf/util/ui/browsers/hists.c

Merge reason: fix the conflict and merge in changes for dependent patch.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

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perf tools: Fix build breakage

The patch ecafda6 introduced a problem where all object files would be
always rebuilt, fix it by using:

http://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/ht

perf tools: Fix build breakage

The patch ecafda6 introduced a problem where all object files would be
always rebuilt, fix it by using:

http://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Prerequisite-Types.html

Reported-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Bernd Petrovitsch <bernd@sysprog.at>
Signed-off-by: Kusanagi Kouichi <slash@ac.auone-net.jp>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

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perf tools: Fix linking errors with --as-needed flag

External shared libraries should never be appended to the LDFLAGS as this
messes the linking order. As EXTLIBS collects those librari

perf tools: Fix linking errors with --as-needed flag

External shared libraries should never be appended to the LDFLAGS as this
messes the linking order. As EXTLIBS collects those libraries, it seems that
perl and python libraries should also be appended to EXTLIBS.

Also fix the broken linking order.

This is a refresh of a patch by Ozan Çağlayan and improved by both Tom Zanussi
and Kirill A. Shutemov.

Cc: Ozan Çağlayan <ozan@pardus.org.tr>
Tested-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name>
Tested-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <1282627430.28324.8.camel@tropicana>
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

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Merge branch 'linus' into perf/core

Merge reason: pick up perf fixes

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

perf tools: add test for strlcpy()

Some Linux distributions like ALT Linux provides patched glibc with
contains strlcpy(). It's confilcts with strlcpy() from perf.

Let's add che

perf tools: add test for strlcpy()

Some Linux distributions like ALT Linux provides patched glibc with
contains strlcpy(). It's confilcts with strlcpy() from perf.

Let's add check for strlcpy().

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
LKML-Reference: <1282351101-8879-1-git-send-email-kirill@shutemov.name>
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

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perf tools: Fix build error on read only source.

Parts of the build process were generating files outside the specified
O= directory, causing the build to fail on systems where the sourc

perf tools: Fix build error on read only source.

Parts of the build process were generating files outside the specified
O= directory, causing the build to fail on systems where the sources are
in a read only file system.

Fix it by using $(OUTPUT) on these locations.

Also check that $(OUTPUT) actually exists, just like the top level
kernel Makefile does. Otherwise the failure message emitted is
completely misleading.

Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <20100817140841.0859362C03A@msa106.auone-net.jp>
Signed-off-by: Kusanagi Kouichi <slash@ac.auone-net.jp>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

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perf tools: Fix build on POSIX shells

POSIX sh does not specify the brace expansion, so fix it by replacing the
global $(shell ...) lines quite at the top creating the output directories

perf tools: Fix build on POSIX shells

POSIX sh does not specify the brace expansion, so fix it by replacing the
global $(shell ...) lines quite at the top creating the output directories with
real rules.

Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Kusanagi Kouichi <slash@ac.auone-net.jp>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <1282046280.5822.4.camel@thorin>
Signed-off-by: Bernd Petrovitsch <bernd@sysprog.at>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

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perf ui: Complete the breakdown of util/newt.c

LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

perf ui: Move hists browser to util/ui/browsers/

LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

perf ui: Move map browser to util/ui/browsers/

LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

perf ui: Move annotate browser to util/ui/browsers/

LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

perf ui: Move ui_progress routines to separate file in util/ui/

LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

perf ui: Move ui_helpline routines to separate file in util/ui/

LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

perf ui: Start breaking down newt.c into multiple files

As new TUI features get added the newt.c file is growing a lot and its
name is growing misleading as an effort is being made to re

perf ui: Start breaking down newt.c into multiple files

As new TUI features get added the newt.c file is growing a lot and its
name is growing misleading as an effort is being made to reduce the
coupling with libnewt.

Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

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perf tools: Fix fallback to cplus_demangle() when bfd_demangle() is not available

make version 3.80 doesn't support "else ifdef" on the same line, also it
doesn't support unindented nest

perf tools: Fix fallback to cplus_demangle() when bfd_demangle() is not available

make version 3.80 doesn't support "else ifdef" on the same line, also it
doesn't support unindented nested constructs.

Build fails with:
Makefile:608: Extraneous text after `else' directive
Makefile:611: *** only one `else' per conditional. Stop.

This patch fixes the build for make 3.80.

Cc: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
LKML-Reference: <1277990366-1462-1-git-send-email-conny.seidel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Conny Seidel <conny.seidel@.amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

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perf scripts perl: Makefile fix

Fix a typo introduced by recent Makefile changes, in f9af3a4. Without it, Perl
scripting support won't get compiled in.

Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker

perf scripts perl: Makefile fix

Fix a typo introduced by recent Makefile changes, in f9af3a4. Without it, Perl
scripting support won't get compiled in.

Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
LKML-Reference: <1276836006.7762.15.camel@tropicana>
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

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perf tools: Reorganize the Makefile feature tests

Moving the tests to a separate file, feature-tests.mak and using a try-cc
function similar to the try-run in Kbuild.

This also

perf tools: Reorganize the Makefile feature tests

Moving the tests to a separate file, feature-tests.mak and using a try-cc
function similar to the try-run in Kbuild.

This also makes the output more quiet as we can stop using the INTERMEDIATE
target to remove the .perf.dev.null file needed for some gcc versions where
/dev/null can't be used as the output file name.

As the tests get shorter by uninlining the source code used to test for
features, we can more properly use identation.

The feature tests itself can be made more clear and reused, like when trying to
see what is needed to have bfd_demangle.

We also get a bit closer to reusing scripts/Kbuild.include, reducing the
distance from the kernel build system.

Tests performed:

[root@emilia perf]# make -j9 O=/tmp/perf
PERF_VERSION = 0.0.2.PERF
GEN /tmp/perf/common-cmds.h
* new build flags or prefix
GEN perf-archive
CC /tmp/perf/builtin-annotate.o
CC /tmp/perf/bench/sched-messaging.o
CC /tmp/perf/builtin-diff.o
<SNIP>
CC /tmp/perf/scripts/python/Perf-Trace-Util/Context.o
CC /tmp/perf/perf.o
CC /tmp/perf/builtin-help.o
AR /tmp/perf/libperf.a
LINK /tmp/perf/perf
[root@emilia perf]#

If we uninstall, for instance newt-devel we get:

[root@emilia perf]# rpm -e newt-devel
[root@emilia perf]# make -j9 O=/tmp/perf
Makefile:564: newt not found, disables TUI support. Please install newt-devel or libnewt-dev
* new build flags or prefix
GEN perf-archive
CC /tmp/perf/perf.o
CC /tmp/perf/builtin-annotate.o
<SNIP>
AR /tmp/perf/libperf.a
LINK /tmp/perf/perf
[root@emilia perf]#

And then binutils-devel:

[root@emilia perf]# make -j9 O=/tmp/perf
Makefile:564: newt not found, disables TUI support. Please install newt-devel or libnewt-dev
Makefile:632: No bfd.h/libbfd found, install binutils-dev[el]/zlib-static to gain symbol demangling
* new build flags or prefix
GEN perf-archive
CC /tmp/perf/perf.o
<SNIP>
AR /tmp/perf/libperf.a
LINK /tmp/perf/perf
[root@emilia perf]#

And then strictly required devel packages:

[root@emilia perf]# rpm -e elfutils-libelf-devel elfutils-devel
[root@emilia perf]# make -j9 O=/tmp/perf
Makefile:509: No libdw.h found or old libdw.h found or elfutils is older than 0.138, disables dwarf support. Please install new elfutils-devel/libdw-dev
Makefile:542: *** No libelf.h/libelf found, please install libelf-dev/elfutils-libelf-devel. Stop.
[root@emilia perf]#

After installing everything back on:

[root@emilia perf]# yum install elfutils-devel binutils-devel newt-devel
<SNIP>
Installed:
binutils-devel.x86_64 0:2.20.51.0.2-5.11.el6
elfutils-devel.x86_64 0:0.147-1.el6
elfutils-libelf-devel.x86_64 0:0.147-1.el6
newt-devel.x86_64 0:0.52.11-1.el6

Complete!
[root@emilia perf]# make -j9
PERF_VERSION = 0.0.2.PERF
GEN common-cmds.h
* new build flags or prefix
GEN perf-archive
CC builtin-annotate.o
<SNIP>
AR libperf.a
LINK perf
[root@emilia perf]# make -j9
[root@emilia perf]#

Thanks to Sam for pointing me to try-run.

Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

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perf tools: Add mode to build without newt support

make NO_NEWT=1

Will avoid building the newt (tui) support.

Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
LKML-Reference:

perf tools: Add mode to build without newt support

make NO_NEWT=1

Will avoid building the newt (tui) support.

Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

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