Merge tag 'perf-core-for-mingo-20160523' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel...
authorIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Tue, 24 May 2016 05:40:52 +0000 (07:40 +0200)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Tue, 24 May 2016 05:40:52 +0000 (07:40 +0200)
commit0c9f790fcbdaf8cfb6dd7fb4e88fadf55082e37e
treeb990cb212929775c1dc926ebc992dee6bbe7c03f
parent408cf677073a5d1a7343bc6430a7297ba7b280d4
parent3a62a7b8200a177ad96161e4f2678514e6ee301e
Merge tag 'perf-core-for-mingo-20160523' of git://git./linux/kernel/git/acme/linux into perf/urgent

Pull perf/core improvements from Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo:

User visible changes:

- Add "srcline_from" and "srcline_to" branch sort keys to 'perf top' and
  'perf report' (Andi Kleen)

Infrastructure changes:

- Make 'perf trace' auto-attach fd->name and ptr->name beautifiers based
  on the name of syscall arguments, this way new syscalls that have
  'const char * (path,pathname,filename)' will use the fd->name beautifier
  (vfs_getname perf probe, if in place) and the 'fd->name' (vfs_getname
  or via /proc/PID/fd/) (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)

- Infrastructure to read from a ring buffer in backward write mode (Wang Nan)

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