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<title>Merge branch 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2017-05-12T17:45:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2017-05-12T17:45:36+00:00</published>
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Pull perf updates/fixes from Ingo Molnar:
 "Mostly tooling updates, but also two kernel fixes: a call chain
  handling robustness fix and an x86 PMU driver event definition fix"

* 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  perf/callchain: Force USER_DS when invoking perf_callchain_user()
  tools build: Fixup sched_getcpu feature test
  perf tests kmod-path: Don't fail if compressed modules aren't supported
  perf annotate: Fix AArch64 comment char
  perf tools: Fix spelling mistakes
  perf/x86: Fix Broadwell-EP DRAM RAPL events
  perf config: Refactor a duplicated code for obtaining config file name
  perf symbols: Allow user probes on versioned symbols
  perf symbols: Accept symbols starting at address 0
  tools lib string: Adopt prefixcmp() from perf and subcmd
  perf units: Move parse_tag_value() to units.[ch]
  perf ui gtk: Move gtk .so name to the only place where it is used
  perf tools: Move HAS_BOOL define to where perl headers are used
  perf memswap: Split the byteswap memory range wrappers from util.[ch]
  perf tools: Move event prototypes from util.h to event.h
  perf buildid: Move prototypes from util.h to build-id.h
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Pull perf updates/fixes from Ingo Molnar:
 "Mostly tooling updates, but also two kernel fixes: a call chain
  handling robustness fix and an x86 PMU driver event definition fix"

* 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  perf/callchain: Force USER_DS when invoking perf_callchain_user()
  tools build: Fixup sched_getcpu feature test
  perf tests kmod-path: Don't fail if compressed modules aren't supported
  perf annotate: Fix AArch64 comment char
  perf tools: Fix spelling mistakes
  perf/x86: Fix Broadwell-EP DRAM RAPL events
  perf config: Refactor a duplicated code for obtaining config file name
  perf symbols: Allow user probes on versioned symbols
  perf symbols: Accept symbols starting at address 0
  tools lib string: Adopt prefixcmp() from perf and subcmd
  perf units: Move parse_tag_value() to units.[ch]
  perf ui gtk: Move gtk .so name to the only place where it is used
  perf tools: Move HAS_BOOL define to where perl headers are used
  perf memswap: Split the byteswap memory range wrappers from util.[ch]
  perf tools: Move event prototypes from util.h to event.h
  perf buildid: Move prototypes from util.h to build-id.h
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<title>perf tests kmod-path: Don't fail if compressed modules aren't supported</title>
<updated>2017-05-04T13:05:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kim Phillips</name>
<email>kim.phillips@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-05-03T12:14:02+00:00</published>
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__kmod_path__parse() uses is_supported_compression() to determine and
parse out compressed module file extensions.  On systems without zlib,
this test fails and __kmod_path__parse() continues to strcmp "ko" with
"gz".  Don't do this on those systems.

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@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Fixes: 3c8a67f50a1e ("perf tools: Add kmod_path__parse function")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170503131402.c66e314460026c80cd787b34@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
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__kmod_path__parse() uses is_supported_compression() to determine and
parse out compressed module file extensions.  On systems without zlib,
this test fails and __kmod_path__parse() continues to strcmp "ko" with
"gz".  Don't do this on those systems.

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@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Fixes: 3c8a67f50a1e ("perf tools: Add kmod_path__parse function")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170503131402.c66e314460026c80cd787b34@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
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<title>perf annotate: Fix AArch64 comment char</title>
<updated>2017-05-04T13:03:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kim Phillips</name>
<email>kim.phillips@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-05-03T12:13:56+00:00</published>
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The commit 0fcb1da4aba "perf annotate: AArch64 support" blindly copied
the comment character from the original:

            https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/5/19/461

whereas that same commit shows objdump output utilizing the C++ style
"//" as the comment delimeter.  Since '/' doesn't occur elsewhere in
objdump output, we retain the single character check, but fix it to be
'/'.

Signed-off-by: Kim Phillips &lt;kim.phillips@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Shishkin &lt;alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Chris Riyder &lt;chris.ryder@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Fixes: 0fcb1da4aba6 ("perf annotate: AArch64 support")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170503131356.be88f977094fb3fa0f49b99d@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
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The commit 0fcb1da4aba "perf annotate: AArch64 support" blindly copied
the comment character from the original:

            https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/5/19/461

whereas that same commit shows objdump output utilizing the C++ style
"//" as the comment delimeter.  Since '/' doesn't occur elsewhere in
objdump output, we retain the single character check, but fix it to be
'/'.

Signed-off-by: Kim Phillips &lt;kim.phillips@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Shishkin &lt;alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Chris Riyder &lt;chris.ryder@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Fixes: 0fcb1da4aba6 ("perf annotate: AArch64 support")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170503131356.be88f977094fb3fa0f49b99d@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>perf tools: Fix spelling mistakes</title>
<updated>2017-05-04T12:59:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kim Phillips</name>
<email>kim.phillips@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-05-03T12:13:50+00:00</published>
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Mostly in the documentation.

Signed-off-by: Kim Phillips &lt;kim.phillips@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Shishkin &lt;alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170503131350.cebeecd8bd0f2968417626ab@arm.com
[ Fix spelling of "parameter" in one of the spell-checked lines ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
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Mostly in the documentation.

Signed-off-by: Kim Phillips &lt;kim.phillips@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Shishkin &lt;alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170503131350.cebeecd8bd0f2968417626ab@arm.com
[ Fix spelling of "parameter" in one of the spell-checked lines ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial</title>
<updated>2017-05-03T02:09:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-05-03T02:09:35+00:00</published>
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Pull trivial tree updates from Jiri Kosina.

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial:
  tty: fix comment for __tty_alloc_driver()
  init/main: properly align the multi-line comment
  init/main: Fix double "the" in comment
  Fix dead URLs to ftp.kernel.org
  drivers: Clean up duplicated email address
  treewide: Fix typo in xml/driver-api/basics.xml
  tools/testing/selftests/powerpc: remove redundant CFLAGS in Makefile: "-Wall -O2 -Wall" -&gt; "-O2 -Wall"
  selftests/timers: Spelling s/privledges/privileges/
  HID: picoLCD: Spelling s/REPORT_WRTIE_MEMORY/REPORT_WRITE_MEMORY/
  net: phy: dp83848: Fix Typo
  UBI: Fix typos
  Documentation: ftrace.txt: Correct nice value of 120 priority
  net: fec: Fix typo in error msg and comment
  treewide: Fix typos in printk
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Pull trivial tree updates from Jiri Kosina.

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial:
  tty: fix comment for __tty_alloc_driver()
  init/main: properly align the multi-line comment
  init/main: Fix double "the" in comment
  Fix dead URLs to ftp.kernel.org
  drivers: Clean up duplicated email address
  treewide: Fix typo in xml/driver-api/basics.xml
  tools/testing/selftests/powerpc: remove redundant CFLAGS in Makefile: "-Wall -O2 -Wall" -&gt; "-O2 -Wall"
  selftests/timers: Spelling s/privledges/privileges/
  HID: picoLCD: Spelling s/REPORT_WRTIE_MEMORY/REPORT_WRITE_MEMORY/
  net: phy: dp83848: Fix Typo
  UBI: Fix typos
  Documentation: ftrace.txt: Correct nice value of 120 priority
  net: fec: Fix typo in error msg and comment
  treewide: Fix typos in printk
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<entry>
<title>perf config: Refactor a duplicated code for obtaining config file name</title>
<updated>2017-05-02T21:23:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Taeung Song</name>
<email>treeze.taeung@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-04-26T12:21:02+00:00</published>
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We were doing the same sequence to figure out what is the config
pathname to use, fix it by doing it before those two uses.

Signed-off-by: Taeung Song &lt;treeze.taeung@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1493209268-5543-2-git-send-email-treeze.taeung@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
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We were doing the same sequence to figure out what is the config
pathname to use, fix it by doing it before those two uses.

Signed-off-by: Taeung Song &lt;treeze.taeung@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1493209268-5543-2-git-send-email-treeze.taeung@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
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<title>perf symbols: Allow user probes on versioned symbols</title>
<updated>2017-05-02T21:23:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Clarke</name>
<email>pc@us.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-04-25T18:15:49+00:00</published>
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Symbol versioning, as in glibc, results in symbols being defined as:

  &lt;real symbol&gt;@[@]&lt;version&gt;

(Note that "@@" identifies a default symbol, if the symbol name is
repeated.)

perf is currently unable to deal with this, and is unable to create user
probes at such symbols:

  --
  $ nm /lib/powerpc64le-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 | grep pthread_create
  0000000000008d30 t __pthread_create_2_1
  0000000000008d30 T pthread_create@@GLIBC_2.17
  $ /usr/bin/sudo perf probe -v -x /lib/powerpc64le-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 pthread_create
  probe-definition(0): pthread_create
  symbol:pthread_create file:(null) line:0 offset:0 return:0 lazy:(null)
  0 arguments
  Open Debuginfo file: /usr/lib/debug/lib/powerpc64le-linux-gnu/libpthread-2.19.so
  Try to find probe point from debuginfo.
  Probe point 'pthread_create' not found.
     Error: Failed to add events. Reason: No such file or directory (Code: -2)
  --

One is not able to specify the fully versioned symbol, either, due to
syntactic conflicts with other uses of "@" by perf:

  --
  $ /usr/bin/sudo perf probe -v -x /lib/powerpc64le-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 pthread_create@@GLIBC_2.17
  probe-definition(0): pthread_create@@GLIBC_2.17
  Semantic error :SRC@SRC is not allowed.
  0 arguments
     Error: Command Parse Error. Reason: Invalid argument (Code: -22)
  --

This patch ignores versioning for default symbols, thus allowing probes to be
created for these symbols:

  --
  $ /usr/bin/sudo ./perf probe -x /lib/powerpc64le-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 pthread_create
  Added new event:
     probe_libpthread:pthread_create (on pthread_create in /lib/powerpc64le-linux-gnu/libpthread-2.19.so)

  You can now use it in all perf tools, such as:

           perf record -e probe_libpthread:pthread_create -aR sleep 1

  $ /usr/bin/sudo ./perf record -e probe_libpthread:pthread_create -aR ./test 2
  [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
  [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.052 MB perf.data (2 samples) ]
  $ /usr/bin/sudo ./perf script
               test  2915 [000] 19124.260729: probe_libpthread:pthread_create: (3fff99248d38)
               test  2916 [000] 19124.260962: probe_libpthread:pthread_create: (3fff99248d38)
  $ /usr/bin/sudo ./perf probe --del=probe_libpthread:pthread_create
  Removed event: probe_libpthread:pthread_create
  --

Committer note:

Change the variable storing the result of strlen() to 'int', to fix the build
on debian:experimental-x-mipsel, fedora:24-x-ARC-uClibc, ubuntu:16.04-x-arm,
etc:

  util/symbol.c: In function 'symbol__match_symbol_name':
  util/symbol.c:422:11: error: comparison between signed and unsigned integer expressions [-Werror=sign-compare]
     if (len &lt; versioning - name)
             ^

Signed-off-by: Paul A. Clarke &lt;pc@us.ibm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@gmail.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/c2b18d9c-17f8-9285-4868-f58b6359ccac@us.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
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Symbol versioning, as in glibc, results in symbols being defined as:

  &lt;real symbol&gt;@[@]&lt;version&gt;

(Note that "@@" identifies a default symbol, if the symbol name is
repeated.)

perf is currently unable to deal with this, and is unable to create user
probes at such symbols:

  --
  $ nm /lib/powerpc64le-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 | grep pthread_create
  0000000000008d30 t __pthread_create_2_1
  0000000000008d30 T pthread_create@@GLIBC_2.17
  $ /usr/bin/sudo perf probe -v -x /lib/powerpc64le-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 pthread_create
  probe-definition(0): pthread_create
  symbol:pthread_create file:(null) line:0 offset:0 return:0 lazy:(null)
  0 arguments
  Open Debuginfo file: /usr/lib/debug/lib/powerpc64le-linux-gnu/libpthread-2.19.so
  Try to find probe point from debuginfo.
  Probe point 'pthread_create' not found.
     Error: Failed to add events. Reason: No such file or directory (Code: -2)
  --

One is not able to specify the fully versioned symbol, either, due to
syntactic conflicts with other uses of "@" by perf:

  --
  $ /usr/bin/sudo perf probe -v -x /lib/powerpc64le-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 pthread_create@@GLIBC_2.17
  probe-definition(0): pthread_create@@GLIBC_2.17
  Semantic error :SRC@SRC is not allowed.
  0 arguments
     Error: Command Parse Error. Reason: Invalid argument (Code: -22)
  --

This patch ignores versioning for default symbols, thus allowing probes to be
created for these symbols:

  --
  $ /usr/bin/sudo ./perf probe -x /lib/powerpc64le-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 pthread_create
  Added new event:
     probe_libpthread:pthread_create (on pthread_create in /lib/powerpc64le-linux-gnu/libpthread-2.19.so)

  You can now use it in all perf tools, such as:

           perf record -e probe_libpthread:pthread_create -aR sleep 1

  $ /usr/bin/sudo ./perf record -e probe_libpthread:pthread_create -aR ./test 2
  [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
  [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.052 MB perf.data (2 samples) ]
  $ /usr/bin/sudo ./perf script
               test  2915 [000] 19124.260729: probe_libpthread:pthread_create: (3fff99248d38)
               test  2916 [000] 19124.260962: probe_libpthread:pthread_create: (3fff99248d38)
  $ /usr/bin/sudo ./perf probe --del=probe_libpthread:pthread_create
  Removed event: probe_libpthread:pthread_create
  --

Committer note:

Change the variable storing the result of strlen() to 'int', to fix the build
on debian:experimental-x-mipsel, fedora:24-x-ARC-uClibc, ubuntu:16.04-x-arm,
etc:

  util/symbol.c: In function 'symbol__match_symbol_name':
  util/symbol.c:422:11: error: comparison between signed and unsigned integer expressions [-Werror=sign-compare]
     if (len &lt; versioning - name)
             ^

Signed-off-by: Paul A. Clarke &lt;pc@us.ibm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@gmail.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/c2b18d9c-17f8-9285-4868-f58b6359ccac@us.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
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<title>perf symbols: Accept symbols starting at address 0</title>
<updated>2017-05-02T21:23:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo</name>
<email>acme@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-04-28T00:21:09+00:00</published>
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That is the case of _text on s390, and we have some functions that return an
address, using address zero to report problems, oops.

This would lead the symbol loading routines to not use "_text" as the reference
relocation symbol, or the first symbol for the kernel, but use instead
"_stext", that is at the same address on x86_64 and others, but not on s390:

  [acme@localhost perf-4.11.0-rc6]$ head -15 /proc/kallsyms
  0000000000000000 T _text
  0000000000000418 t iplstart
  0000000000000800 T start
  000000000000080a t .base
  000000000000082e t .sk8x8
  0000000000000834 t .gotr
  0000000000000842 t .cmd
  0000000000000846 t .parm
  000000000000084a t .lowcase
  0000000000010000 T startup
  0000000000010010 T startup_kdump
  0000000000010214 t startup_kdump_relocated
  0000000000011000 T startup_continue
  00000000000112a0 T _ehead
  0000000000100000 T _stext
  [acme@localhost perf-4.11.0-rc6]$

Which in turn would make 'perf test vmlinux' to fail because it wouldn't find
the symbols before "_stext" in kallsyms.

Fix it by using the return value only for errors and storing the
address, when the symbol is successfully found, in a provided pointer
arg.

Before this patch:

After:

  [acme@localhost perf-4.11.0-rc6]$ tools/perf/perf test -v 1
   1: vmlinux symtab matches kallsyms            :
  --- start ---
  test child forked, pid 40693
  Looking at the vmlinux_path (8 entries long)
  Using /usr/lib/debug/lib/modules/3.10.0-654.el7.s390x/vmlinux for symbols
  ERR : 0: _text not on kallsyms
  ERR : 0x418: iplstart not on kallsyms
  ERR : 0x800: start not on kallsyms
  ERR : 0x80a: .base not on kallsyms
  ERR : 0x82e: .sk8x8 not on kallsyms
  ERR : 0x834: .gotr not on kallsyms
  ERR : 0x842: .cmd not on kallsyms
  ERR : 0x846: .parm not on kallsyms
  ERR : 0x84a: .lowcase not on kallsyms
  ERR : 0x10000: startup not on kallsyms
  ERR : 0x10010: startup_kdump not on kallsyms
  ERR : 0x10214: startup_kdump_relocated not on kallsyms
  ERR : 0x11000: startup_continue not on kallsyms
  ERR : 0x112a0: _ehead not on kallsyms
  &lt;SNIP warnings&gt;
  test child finished with -1
  ---- end ----
  vmlinux symtab matches kallsyms: FAILED!
  [acme@localhost perf-4.11.0-rc6]$

After:

  [acme@localhost perf-4.11.0-rc6]$ tools/perf/perf test -v 1
   1: vmlinux symtab matches kallsyms            :
  --- start ---
  test child forked, pid 47160
  &lt;SNIP warnings&gt;
  test child finished with 0
  ---- end ----
  vmlinux symtab matches kallsyms: Ok
  [acme@localhost perf-4.11.0-rc6]$

Reported-by: Michael Petlan &lt;mpetlan@redhat.com&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: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-9x9bwgd3btwdk1u51xie93fz@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
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That is the case of _text on s390, and we have some functions that return an
address, using address zero to report problems, oops.

This would lead the symbol loading routines to not use "_text" as the reference
relocation symbol, or the first symbol for the kernel, but use instead
"_stext", that is at the same address on x86_64 and others, but not on s390:

  [acme@localhost perf-4.11.0-rc6]$ head -15 /proc/kallsyms
  0000000000000000 T _text
  0000000000000418 t iplstart
  0000000000000800 T start
  000000000000080a t .base
  000000000000082e t .sk8x8
  0000000000000834 t .gotr
  0000000000000842 t .cmd
  0000000000000846 t .parm
  000000000000084a t .lowcase
  0000000000010000 T startup
  0000000000010010 T startup_kdump
  0000000000010214 t startup_kdump_relocated
  0000000000011000 T startup_continue
  00000000000112a0 T _ehead
  0000000000100000 T _stext
  [acme@localhost perf-4.11.0-rc6]$

Which in turn would make 'perf test vmlinux' to fail because it wouldn't find
the symbols before "_stext" in kallsyms.

Fix it by using the return value only for errors and storing the
address, when the symbol is successfully found, in a provided pointer
arg.

Before this patch:

After:

  [acme@localhost perf-4.11.0-rc6]$ tools/perf/perf test -v 1
   1: vmlinux symtab matches kallsyms            :
  --- start ---
  test child forked, pid 40693
  Looking at the vmlinux_path (8 entries long)
  Using /usr/lib/debug/lib/modules/3.10.0-654.el7.s390x/vmlinux for symbols
  ERR : 0: _text not on kallsyms
  ERR : 0x418: iplstart not on kallsyms
  ERR : 0x800: start not on kallsyms
  ERR : 0x80a: .base not on kallsyms
  ERR : 0x82e: .sk8x8 not on kallsyms
  ERR : 0x834: .gotr not on kallsyms
  ERR : 0x842: .cmd not on kallsyms
  ERR : 0x846: .parm not on kallsyms
  ERR : 0x84a: .lowcase not on kallsyms
  ERR : 0x10000: startup not on kallsyms
  ERR : 0x10010: startup_kdump not on kallsyms
  ERR : 0x10214: startup_kdump_relocated not on kallsyms
  ERR : 0x11000: startup_continue not on kallsyms
  ERR : 0x112a0: _ehead not on kallsyms
  &lt;SNIP warnings&gt;
  test child finished with -1
  ---- end ----
  vmlinux symtab matches kallsyms: FAILED!
  [acme@localhost perf-4.11.0-rc6]$

After:

  [acme@localhost perf-4.11.0-rc6]$ tools/perf/perf test -v 1
   1: vmlinux symtab matches kallsyms            :
  --- start ---
  test child forked, pid 47160
  &lt;SNIP warnings&gt;
  test child finished with 0
  ---- end ----
  vmlinux symtab matches kallsyms: Ok
  [acme@localhost perf-4.11.0-rc6]$

Reported-by: Michael Petlan &lt;mpetlan@redhat.com&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: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-9x9bwgd3btwdk1u51xie93fz@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
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<title>tools lib string: Adopt prefixcmp() from perf and subcmd</title>
<updated>2017-04-26T18:49:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo</name>
<email>acme@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-04-26T18:49:21+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=96395cbbc7e94cbbe4f76cf64cf122fabc19123d'/>
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Both had copies originating from git.git, move those to
tools/lib/string.c, getting both tools/lib/subcmd/ and tools/perf/ to
use it.

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: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Wang Nan &lt;wangnan0@huawei.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-uidwtticro1qhttzd2rkrkg1@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
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Both had copies originating from git.git, move those to
tools/lib/string.c, getting both tools/lib/subcmd/ and tools/perf/ to
use it.

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: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Wang Nan &lt;wangnan0@huawei.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-uidwtticro1qhttzd2rkrkg1@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>perf units: Move parse_tag_value() to units.[ch]</title>
<updated>2017-04-26T18:40:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo</name>
<email>acme@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-04-26T18:40:31+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=3caeafce5392a8eba7b36d0d097d403cacc66e2d'/>
<id>3caeafce5392a8eba7b36d0d097d403cacc66e2d</id>
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Its basically to do units handling, so move to a more appropriately
named object.

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: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-90ob9vfepui24l8l2makhd9u@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
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Its basically to do units handling, so move to a more appropriately
named object.

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: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-90ob9vfepui24l8l2makhd9u@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
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