Merge tag 'perf-core-for-mingo-5.8-20200420' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux into perf/core

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

kernel + tools/perf:

  Alexey Budankov:

  - Introduce CAP_PERFMON to kernel and user space.

callchains:

  Adrian Hunter:

  - Allow using Intel PT to synthesize callchains for regular events.

  Kan Liang:

  - Stitch LBR records from multiple samples to get deeper backtraces,
    there are caveats, see the csets for details.

perf script:

  Andreas Gerstmayr:

  - Add flamegraph.py script

BPF:

  Jiri Olsa:

  - Synthesize bpf_trampoline/dispatcher ksymbol events.

perf stat:

  Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo:

  - Honour --timeout for forked workloads.

  Stephane Eranian:

  - Force error in fallback on :k events, to avoid counting nothing when
    the user asks for kernel events but is not allowed to.

perf bench:

  Ian Rogers:

  - Add event synthesis benchmark.

tools api fs:

  Stephane Eranian:

 - Make xxx__mountpoint() more scalable

libtraceevent:

  He Zhe:

  - Handle return value of asprintf.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>

2 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/tools/perf/scripts/python/bin/flamegraph-record b/tools/perf/scripts/python/bin/flamegraph-record
new file mode 100755
index 000000000000..725d66e71570
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/perf/scripts/python/bin/flamegraph-record
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+#!/usr/bin/sh
+perf record -g "$@"
diff --git a/tools/perf/scripts/python/bin/flamegraph-report b/tools/perf/scripts/python/bin/flamegraph-report
new file mode 100755
index 000000000000..b1a79afd903b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/perf/scripts/python/bin/flamegraph-report
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+#!/usr/bin/sh
+# description: create flame graphs
+perf script -s "$PERF_EXEC_PATH"/scripts/python/flamegraph.py -- "$@"