Merge tag 'perf-core-for-mingo-5.2-20190517' 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:

perf.data:

  Alexey Budankov:

  - Streaming compression of perf ring buffer into PERF_RECORD_COMPRESSED
    user space records, resulting in ~3-5x perf.data file size reduction
    on variety of tested workloads what saves storage space on larger
    server systems where perf.data size can easily reach several tens or
    even hundreds of GiBs, especially when profiling with DWARF-based
    stacks and tracing of context switches.

perf record:

  Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

  - Improve -user-regs/intr-regs suggestions to overcome errors.

perf annotate:

  Jin Yao:

  - Remove hist__account_cycles() from callback, speeding up branch processing
    (perf record -b).

perf stat:

  - Add a 'percore' event qualifier, e.g.: -e cpu/event=0,umask=0x3,percore=1/,
    that sums up the event counts for both hardware threads in a core.

    We can already do this with --per-core, but it's often useful to do
    this together with other metrics that are collected per hardware thread.

    I.e. now its possible to do this per-event, and have it mixed with other
    events not aggregated by core.

core libraries:

  Donald Yandt:

  - Check for errors when doing fgets(/proc/version).

  Jiri Olsa:

  - Speed up report for perf compiled with linbunwind.

tools headers:

  Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

  - Update memcpy_64.S, x86's kvm.h and pt_regs.h.

arm64:

  Florian Fainelli:

  - Map Brahma-B53 CPUID to cortex-a53 events.

  - Add Cortex-A57 and Cortex-A72 events.

csky:

  Mao Han:

  - Add DWARF register mappings for libdw, allowing --call-graph=dwarf to work
    on the C-SKY arch.

x86:

  Andi Kleen/Kan Liang:

  - Add support for recording and printing XMM registers, available, for
    instance, on Icelake.

  Kan Liang:

  - Add uncore_upi (Intel's "Ultra Path Interconnect" events) JSON support.
    UPI replaced the Intel QuickPath Interconnect (QPI) in Xeon Skylake-SP.

Intel PT:

  Adrian Hunter

  . Fix instructions sampling rate.

  . Timestamp fixes.

  . Improve exported-sql-viewer GUI, allowing, for instance, to copy'n'paste
    the trees, useful for e-mailing.

Documentation:

  Thomas Richter:

  - Add description for 'perf --debug stderr=1', which redirects stderr to stdout.

libtraceevent:

  Tzvetomir Stoyanov:

  - Add man pages for the various APIs.

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

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diff --git a/tools/lib/traceevent/Documentation/libtraceevent-tseq.txt b/tools/lib/traceevent/Documentation/libtraceevent-tseq.txt
new file mode 100644
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+++ b/tools/lib/traceevent/Documentation/libtraceevent-tseq.txt
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+libtraceevent(3)
+================
+
+NAME
+----
+trace_seq_init, trace_seq_destroy, trace_seq_reset, trace_seq_terminate,
+trace_seq_putc, trace_seq_puts, trace_seq_printf, trace_seq_vprintf,
+trace_seq_do_fprintf, trace_seq_do_printf -
+Initialize / destroy a trace sequence.
+
+SYNOPSIS
+--------
+[verse]
+--
+*#include <event-parse.h>*
+*#include <trace-seq.h>*
+
+void *trace_seq_init*(struct trace_seq pass:[*]_s_);
+void *trace_seq_destroy*(struct trace_seq pass:[*]_s_);
+void *trace_seq_reset*(struct trace_seq pass:[*]_s_);
+void *trace_seq_terminate*(struct trace_seq pass:[*]_s_);
+int *trace_seq_putc*(struct trace_seq pass:[*]_s_, unsigned char _c_);
+int *trace_seq_puts*(struct trace_seq pass:[*]_s_, const char pass:[*]_str_);
+int *trace_seq_printf*(struct trace_seq pass:[*]_s_, const char pass:[*]_fmt_, _..._);
+int *trace_seq_vprintf*(struct trace_seq pass:[*]_s_, const char pass:[*]_fmt_, va_list _args_);
+int *trace_seq_do_printf*(struct trace_seq pass:[*]_s_);
+int *trace_seq_do_fprintf*(struct trace_seq pass:[*]_s_, FILE pass:[*]_fp_);
+--
+
+DESCRIPTION
+-----------
+Trace sequences are used to allow a function to call several other functions
+to create a string of data to use.
+
+The _trace_seq_init()_ function initializes the trace sequence _s_.
+
+The _trace_seq_destroy()_ function destroys the trace sequence _s_ and frees
+all its resources that it had used.
+
+The _trace_seq_reset()_ function re-initializes the trace sequence _s_. All
+characters already written in _s_ will be deleted.
+
+The _trace_seq_terminate()_ function terminates the trace sequence _s_. It puts
+the null character pass:['\0'] at the end of the buffer.
+
+The _trace_seq_putc()_ function puts a single character _c_ in the trace
+sequence _s_.
+
+The _trace_seq_puts()_ function puts a NULL terminated string _str_ in the
+trace sequence _s_.
+
+The _trace_seq_printf()_ function puts a formated string _fmt _with
+variable arguments _..._ in the trace sequence _s_.
+
+The _trace_seq_vprintf()_ function puts a formated string _fmt _with
+list of arguments _args_ in the trace sequence _s_.
+
+The _trace_seq_do_printf()_ function prints the buffer of trace sequence _s_ to
+the standard output stdout.
+
+The _trace_seq_do_fprintf()_ function prints the buffer of trace sequence _s_
+to the given file _fp_.
+
+RETURN VALUE
+------------
+Both _trace_seq_putc()_ and _trace_seq_puts()_ functions return the number of
+characters put in the trace sequence, or 0 in case of an error
+
+Both _trace_seq_printf()_ and _trace_seq_vprintf()_ functions return 0 if the
+trace oversizes the buffer's free space, the number of characters printed, or
+a negative value in case of an error.
+
+Both _trace_seq_do_printf()_ and _trace_seq_do_fprintf()_ functions return the
+number of printed characters, or -1 in case of an error.
+
+EXAMPLE
+-------
+[source,c]
+--
+#include <event-parse.h>
+#include <trace-seq.h>
+...
+struct trace_seq seq;
+trace_seq_init(&seq);
+...
+void foo_seq_print(struct trace_seq *tseq, char *format, ...)
+{
+	va_list ap;
+	va_start(ap, format);
+	if (trace_seq_vprintf(tseq, format, ap) <= 0) {
+		/* Failed to print in the trace sequence */
+	}
+	va_end(ap);
+}
+
+trace_seq_reset(&seq);
+
+char *str = " MAN page example";
+if (trace_seq_puts(&seq, str) != strlen(str)) {
+	/* Failed to put str in the trace sequence */
+}
+if (trace_seq_putc(&seq, ':') != 1) {
+	/* Failed to put ':' in the trace sequence */
+}
+if (trace_seq_printf(&seq, " trace sequence: %d", 1) <= 0) {
+	/* Failed to print in the trace sequence */
+}
+foo_seq_print( &seq, "  %d\n", 2);
+
+trace_seq_terminate(&seq);
+...
+
+if (trace_seq_do_printf(&seq) < 0 ) {
+	/* Failed to print the sequence buffer to the standard output */
+}
+FILE *fp = fopen("trace.txt", "w");
+if (trace_seq_do_fprintf(&seq, fp) < 0 ) [
+	/* Failed to print the sequence buffer to the trace.txt file */
+}
+
+trace_seq_destroy(&seq);
+...
+--
+
+FILES
+-----
+[verse]
+--
+*event-parse.h*
+	Header file to include in order to have access to the library APIs.
+*trace-seq.h*
+	Header file to include in order to have access to trace sequences related APIs.
+*-ltraceevent*
+	Linker switch to add when building a program that uses the library.
+--
+
+SEE ALSO
+--------
+_libtraceevent(3)_, _trace-cmd(1)_
+
+AUTHOR
+------
+[verse]
+--
+*Steven Rostedt* <rostedt@goodmis.org>, author of *libtraceevent*.
+*Tzvetomir Stoyanov* <tz.stoyanov@gmail.com>, author of this man page.
+--
+REPORTING BUGS
+--------------
+Report bugs to  <linux-trace-devel@vger.kernel.org>
+
+LICENSE
+-------
+libtraceevent is Free Software licensed under the GNU LGPL 2.1
+
+RESOURCES
+---------
+https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git