Merge tag 'perf-core-for-mingo-4.15-20170922' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux...

Pull perf/core improvements and fixes from Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo:

- Support direct --user-regs arguments in 'perf record', previously the
  only way to sample PERF_SAMPLE_REGS_USER was implicitly selecting it
  when recording callchains (Andi Kleen)

- Support showing sampled user regs in 'perf script' (Andi Kleen)

- Introduce the concept of weak groups in 'perf stat': try to set up a
  group, but if it's not schedulable fallback to not using a group. That
  gives us the best of both worlds: groups if they work, but still a
  usable fallback if they don't. E.g: (Andi Kleen)

  % perf stat -e '{branches,branch-misses,l1d.replacement,l2_lines_in.all,l2_rqsts.all_code_rd}:W' -a sleep 1

    125,366,055  branches                                    (80.02%)
      9,208,402  branch-misses       # 7.35% of all branches (80.01%)
     24,560,249  l1d.replacement                             (80.00%)
     43,174,971  l2_lines_in.all                             (80.05%)
     31,891,457  l2_rqsts.all_code_rd                        (79.92%)

- Support metrics in 'stat' and 'list'. A metric is a formula that
  uses multiple events to compute a higher level result (e.g. IPC). (Andi Kleen)

- Add Intel processors vendor event metrics JSON files (Andi Kleen)

- Add 'pid' and 'tid' options to 'perf sched timehist' (David Ahern)

- Generate 'behavior' string table from kernel headers, helps getting
  new parameters when synchronizing kernel headers, like MADV_WIPEONFORK
  and MADV_KEEPONFORK, that are now beautied (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)

- Improve TUI progress bar by showing how many bytes from a total were
  processed (Jiri Olsa)

- Use scandir() to replace readdir(), prep work to have the synthesizing
  of PERF_RECORD_ entries for existing threads be multithreaded, making
  'perf top' bearable on high core count systems such as Intel's Knights
  Landing/Mill  (Kan Liang)

- Allow creating a ~/.perfconfig file when setting a variable to its
  default value, previously it would bail out and not write such a
  file (Taeung Song)

- Introduce wrapper for allowing purely single threaded apps to avoid
  the costs of locking (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)

- Introduce hashtable to reduce the cost of thread lookup

- Fix build C++ build wrt poison.h using void pointer arithmetic,
  affects only the embedded clang/llvm case, that is disabled by
  default (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)

- Fix leaking rec_argv in error cases (Martin Kepplinger)

- Remove Intel CQM perf test, that infrastructure was nuked (Xiaochen Shen)

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