Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

Pull perf updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The main changes in this cycle were:

  Kernel:

   - kprobes updates: use better W^X patterns for code modifications,
     improve optprobes, remove jprobes. (Masami Hiramatsu, Kees Cook)

   - core fixes: event timekeeping (enabled/running times statistics)
     fixes, perf_event_read() locking fixes and cleanups, etc. (Peter
     Zijlstra)

   - Extend x86 Intel free-running PEBS support and support x86
     user-register sampling in perf record and perf script. (Andi Kleen)

  Tooling:

   - Completely rework the way inline frames are handled. Instead of
     querying for the inline nodes on-demand in the individual tools, we
     now create proper callchain nodes for inlined frames. (Milian
     Wolff)

   - 'perf trace' updates (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)

   - Implement a way to print formatted output to per-event files in
     'perf script' to facilitate generate flamegraphs, elliminating the
     need to write scripts to do that separation (yuzhoujian, Arnaldo
     Carvalho de Melo)

   - Update vendor events JSON metrics for Intel's Broadwell, Broadwell
     Server, Haswell, Haswell Server, IvyBridge, IvyTown, JakeTown,
     Sandy Bridge, Skylake, SkyLake Server - and Goldmont Plus V1 (Andi
     Kleen, Kan Liang)

   - Multithread the synthesizing of PERF_RECORD_ events for
     pre-existing threads in 'perf top', speeding up that phase, greatly
     improving the user experience in systems such as Intel's Knights
     Mill (Kan Liang)

   - 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 sched timehist enhancements (David Ahern)

   - ... various other enhancements, updates, cleanups and fixes"

* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (139 commits)
  kprobes: Don't spam the build log with deprecation warnings
  arm/kprobes: Remove jprobe test case
  arm/kprobes: Fix kretprobe test to check correct counter
  perf srcline: Show correct function name for srcline of callchains
  perf srcline: Fix memory leak in addr2inlines()
  perf trace beauty kcmp: Beautify arguments
  perf trace beauty: Implement pid_fd beautifier
  tools include uapi: Grab a copy of linux/kcmp.h
  perf callchain: Fix double mapping al->addr for children without self period
  perf stat: Make --per-thread update shadow stats to show metrics
  perf stat: Move the shadow stats scale computation in perf_stat__update_shadow_stats
  perf tools: Add perf_data_file__write function
  perf tools: Add struct perf_data_file
  perf tools: Rename struct perf_data_file to perf_data
  perf script: Print information about per-event-dump files
  perf trace beauty prctl: Generate 'option' string table from kernel headers
  tools include uapi: Grab a copy of linux/prctl.h
  perf script: Allow creating per-event dump files
  perf evsel: Restore evsel->priv as a tool private area
  perf script: Use event_format__fprintf()
  ...

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-top.c b/tools/perf/builtin-top.c
index ee954bde7e3e..477a8699f0b5 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-top.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-top.c
@@ -958,8 +958,16 @@ static int __cmd_top(struct perf_top *top)
 	if (perf_session__register_idle_thread(top->session) < 0)
 		goto out_delete;
 
+	if (top->nr_threads_synthesize > 1)
+		perf_set_multithreaded();
+
 	machine__synthesize_threads(&top->session->machines.host, &opts->target,
-				    top->evlist->threads, false, opts->proc_map_timeout);
+				    top->evlist->threads, false,
+				    opts->proc_map_timeout,
+				    top->nr_threads_synthesize);
+
+	if (top->nr_threads_synthesize > 1)
+		perf_set_singlethreaded();
 
 	if (perf_hpp_list.socket) {
 		ret = perf_env__read_cpu_topology_map(&perf_env);
@@ -1112,6 +1120,7 @@ int cmd_top(int argc, const char **argv)
 		},
 		.max_stack	     = sysctl_perf_event_max_stack,
 		.sym_pcnt_filter     = 5,
+		.nr_threads_synthesize = UINT_MAX,
 	};
 	struct record_opts *opts = &top.record_opts;
 	struct target *target = &opts->target;
@@ -1221,6 +1230,8 @@ int cmd_top(int argc, const char **argv)
 	OPT_BOOLEAN(0, "hierarchy", &symbol_conf.report_hierarchy,
 		    "Show entries in a hierarchy"),
 	OPT_BOOLEAN(0, "force", &symbol_conf.force, "don't complain, do it"),
+	OPT_UINTEGER(0, "num-thread-synthesize", &top.nr_threads_synthesize,
+			"number of thread to run event synthesize"),
 	OPT_END()
 	};
 	const char * const top_usage[] = {