Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

Pull perf updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The main kernel side changes were:

   - uprobes enhancements (Masami Hiramatsu)

   - Uncore group events enhancements (David Carrillo-Cisneros)

   - x86 Intel: Add support for Skylake server uncore PMUs (Kan Liang)

   - x86 Intel: LBR cleanups and enhancements, for better branch
     annotation tracking (Peter Zijlstra)

   - x86 Intel: Add support for PTWRITE and power event tracing
     (Alexander Shishkin)

   - ... various fixes, cleanups and smaller enhancements.

  Lots of tooling changes - a couple of highlights:

   - Support event group view with hierarchy mode in 'perf top' and
     'perf report' (Namhyung Kim)

     e.g.:

     $ perf record -e '{cycles,instructions}' make
     $ perf report --hierarchy --stdio
     ...
     #   Overhead  Command / Shared Object / Symbol
     # ......................  ..................................
     ...
     25.74%  27.18%sh
     19.96%  24.14%libc-2.24.so
      9.55%  14.64%[.] __strcmp_sse2
      1.54%   0.00%[.] __tfind
      1.07%   1.13%[.] _int_malloc
      0.95%   0.00%[.] __strchr_sse2
      0.89%   1.39%[.] __tsearch
      0.76%   0.00%[.] strlen

   - Add branch stack / basic block info to 'perf annotate --stdio',
     where for each branch, we add an asm comment after the instruction
     with information on how often it was taken and predicted. See
     example with color output at:

       http://vger.kernel.org/~acme/perf/annotate_basic_blocks.png

     (Peter Zijlstra)

   - Add support for using symbols in address filters with Intel PT and
     ARM CoreSight (hardware assisted tracing facilities) (Adrian
     Hunter, Mathieu Poirier)

   - Add support for interacting with Coresight PMU ETMs/PTMs, that are
     IP blocks to perform hardware assisted tracing on a ARM CPU core
     (Mathieu Poirier)

   - Support generating cross arch probes, i.e. if you specify a vmlinux
     file for different arch than the one in the host machine,

        $ perf probe --definition function_name args

     will generate the probe definition string needed to append to the
     target machine /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/kprobes_events file, using
     scripting (Masami Hiramatsu).

   - Allow configuring the default 'perf report -s' sort order in
     ~/.perfconfig, for instance, "sym,dso" may be more fitting for
     kernel developers. (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)

   - ... plus lots of other changes, refactorings, features and fixes"

* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (149 commits)
  perf tests: Add dwarf unwind test for powerpc
  perf probe: Match linkage name with mangled name
  perf probe: Fix to cut off incompatible chars from group name
  perf probe: Skip if the function address is 0
  perf probe: Ignore the error of finding inline instance
  perf intel-pt: Fix decoding when there are address filters
  perf intel-pt: Enable decoder to handle TIP.PGD with missing IP
  perf intel-pt: Read address filter from AUXTRACE_INFO event
  perf intel-pt: Record address filter in AUXTRACE_INFO event
  perf intel-pt: Add a helper function for processing AUXTRACE_INFO
  perf intel-pt: Fix missing error codes processing auxtrace_info
  perf intel-pt: Add support for recording the max non-turbo ratio
  perf intel-pt: Fix snapshot overlap detection decoder errors
  perf probe: Increase debug level of SDT debug messages
  perf record: Add support for using symbols in address filters
  perf symbols: Add dso__last_symbol()
  perf record: Fix error paths
  perf record: Rename label 'out_symbol_exit'
  perf script: Fix vanished idle symbols
  perf evsel: Add support for address filters
  ...

2 files changed, 12 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.txt b/Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.txt
index ea52ec1f8484..e4991fb1eedc 100644
--- a/Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.txt
+++ b/Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.txt
@@ -44,8 +44,8 @@ Synopsis of kprobe_events
   +|-offs(FETCHARG) : Fetch memory at FETCHARG +|- offs address.(**)
   NAME=FETCHARG : Set NAME as the argument name of FETCHARG.
   FETCHARG:TYPE : Set TYPE as the type of FETCHARG. Currently, basic types
-		  (u8/u16/u32/u64/s8/s16/s32/s64), "string" and bitfield
-		  are supported.
+		  (u8/u16/u32/u64/s8/s16/s32/s64), hexadecimal types
+		  (x8/x16/x32/x64), "string" and bitfield are supported.
 
   (*) only for return probe.
   (**) this is useful for fetching a field of data structures.
@@ -54,7 +54,10 @@ Types
 -----
 Several types are supported for fetch-args. Kprobe tracer will access memory
 by given type. Prefix 's' and 'u' means those types are signed and unsigned
-respectively. Traced arguments are shown in decimal (signed) or hex (unsigned).
+respectively. 'x' prefix implies it is unsigned. Traced arguments are shown
+in decimal ('s' and 'u') or hexadecimal ('x'). Without type casting, 'x32'
+or 'x64' is used depends on the architecture (e.g. x86-32 uses x32, and
+x86-64 uses x64).
 String type is a special type, which fetches a "null-terminated" string from
 kernel space. This means it will fail and store NULL if the string container
 has been paged out.
diff --git a/Documentation/trace/uprobetracer.txt b/Documentation/trace/uprobetracer.txt
index 72d1cd4f7bf3..94b6b4581763 100644
--- a/Documentation/trace/uprobetracer.txt
+++ b/Documentation/trace/uprobetracer.txt
@@ -40,8 +40,8 @@ Synopsis of uprobe_tracer
    +|-offs(FETCHARG) : Fetch memory at FETCHARG +|- offs address.(**)
    NAME=FETCHARG     : Set NAME as the argument name of FETCHARG.
    FETCHARG:TYPE     : Set TYPE as the type of FETCHARG. Currently, basic types
-		       (u8/u16/u32/u64/s8/s16/s32/s64), "string" and bitfield
-		       are supported.
+		       (u8/u16/u32/u64/s8/s16/s32/s64), hexadecimal types
+		       (x8/x16/x32/x64), "string" and bitfield are supported.
 
   (*) only for return probe.
   (**) this is useful for fetching a field of data structures.
@@ -50,7 +50,10 @@ Types
 -----
 Several types are supported for fetch-args. Uprobe tracer will access memory
 by given type. Prefix 's' and 'u' means those types are signed and unsigned
-respectively. Traced arguments are shown in decimal (signed) or hex (unsigned).
+respectively. 'x' prefix implies it is unsigned. Traced arguments are shown
+in decimal ('s' and 'u') or hexadecimal ('x'). Without type casting, 'x32'
+or 'x64' is used depends on the architecture (e.g. x86-32 uses x32, and
+x86-64 uses x64).
 String type is a special type, which fetches a "null-terminated" string from
 user space.
 Bitfield is another special type, which takes 3 parameters, bit-width, bit-