Ingo Molnar
a89d0c2acf
Pull perf/urgent fixes and improvements from Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo:
perf stat:
- Fix metric column header display alignment (Jiri Olsa)
- Improve error messages for default attributes, providing better output
for error in command lines such as:
$ perf stat -T
Cannot set up transaction events
event syntax error: '..cycles,cpu/cycles-t/,cpu/tx-start/,cpu/el-start/,cpu/cycles-ct/}'
\___ unknown term
Where the "event syntax error" line now appears (Jiri Olsa)
- Add --interval-clear option, to provide a 'watch' like printing (Jiri Olsa)
perf script:
- Show hw-cache events too (Seeteena Thoufeek)
perf c2c:
- Fix data dependency problem in layout of 'struct c2c_hist_entry', where
its member 'struct hist_entry' must be at the end because it has a ZLA
as its last member, that gets space when handling callchains (Jiri Olsa)
Core:
- We cannot assume that a 'struct perf_evsel' is to be obtained from a
container_of operation on a 'struct hists' as there are tools, such as
'perf c2c' that uses 'struct hist' instances without having them in
container structs that also have 'struct perf_evsel' in a particular
layout, so provide a different way of figuring out if a 'struct hists'
and 'struct hist_entry' have callchains (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
- Fix error index in the PMU event parser, so that error messages can
point to the problematic token (Jiri Olsa)
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Linux kernel
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