Merge tag 'perf-core-for-mingo-20160621' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux into perf/core

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

New features:

 - Add --dry-run option to 'perf record' to check if command line options can be
   parsed, but not doing any recording (Wang Nan)

 - Allow dumping the object files generated by llvm when processing eBPF
   scriptlet events (Wang Nan)

 - Add stackcollapse.py script to help generating flame graphs (Paolo Bonzini)

Documentation changes:

 - Fix 'perf script'  documentation of '-f' when it should be '-F' (Adrian Hunter)

Infrastructure changes:

 - Fix write_backwards fallback when using a new tool on older kernels
   without support for this feature (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)

 - Remove some leftovers from the initial codebase copying from git
   (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)

 - List libelf-devel as an alternative, as this is how the libelf
   development package is called on OpenSuSE (Jean Delvare)

 - Rename __hists__add_entry to hists__add_entry (Jiri Olsa)

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

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
index d4cf1b0c88f9..b1304ebc8779 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
@@ -1274,6 +1274,8 @@ static struct record record = {
 const char record_callchain_help[] = CALLCHAIN_RECORD_HELP
 	"\n\t\t\t\tDefault: fp";
 
+static bool dry_run;
+
 /*
  * XXX Will stay a global variable till we fix builtin-script.c to stop messing
  * with it and switch to use the library functions in perf_evlist that came
@@ -1393,6 +1395,8 @@ struct option __record_options[] = {
 		    "append timestamp to output filename"),
 	OPT_BOOLEAN(0, "switch-output", &record.switch_output,
 		    "Switch output when receive SIGUSR2"),
+	OPT_BOOLEAN(0, "dry-run", &dry_run,
+		    "Parse options then exit"),
 	OPT_END()
 };
 
@@ -1462,6 +1466,9 @@ int cmd_record(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix __maybe_unused)
 	if (err)
 		return err;
 
+	if (dry_run)
+		return 0;
+
 	err = bpf__setup_stdout(rec->evlist);
 	if (err) {
 		bpf__strerror_setup_stdout(rec->evlist, err, errbuf, sizeof(errbuf));