Merge tag 'perf-core-for-mingo-20161220' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux into perf/urgent
Pull perf/core improvements and fixes:
New features:
- Introduce 'perf sched timehist --idle', to analyse processes
going to/from idle state (Namhyung Kim)
Fixes:
- Allow 'perf record -u user' to continue when facing races with threads
going away after having scanned them via /proc (Jiri Olsa)
- Fix 'perf mem' --all-user/--all-kernel options (Jiri Olsa)
- Support jumps with multiple arguments (Ravi Bangoria)
- Fix jumps to before the function where they are located (Ravi Bangoria)
- Fix lock-pi help string (Davidlohr Bueso)
- Fix build of 'perf trace' in odd systems such as a RHEL PPC one (Jiri Olsa)
- Do not overwrite valid build id in 'perf diff' (Kan Liang)
- Don't throw error for zero length symbols, allowing the use of the TUI
in PowerPC, where such symbols became more common recently (Ravi Bangoria)
Infrastructure changes:
- Switch of samples/bpf/ to use tools/lib/bpf, removing libbpf
duplication (Joe Stringer)
- Move headers check into bash script (Jiri Olsa)
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
