Merge tag 'perf-urgent-for-mingo-20160809' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux into perf/urgent

Pull perf/urgent fixes from Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo:

User visible fixes:

- Fix the lookup for a kernel module in 'perf probe', fixing for instance, the
  erroneous return of "[raid10]" when looking for "[raid1]"  (Konstantin Khlebnikov)

- Disable counters in a group before reading them in 'perf stat', to avoid skew (Mark Rutland)

- Fix adding probes to function aliases in systems using kaslr (Masami Hiramatsu)

- Trip libtraceevent trace_seq buffers, removing unnecessary memory usage that could
  bring a system using tracepoint events with 'perf top' to a crawl, as the trace_seq
  buffers start at a whooping 4 KB, which is very rarely used in perf's usecases,
  so realloc it to the really used space as a last measure after using libtraceevent
  functions to format the fields of tracepoint events (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)

- Fix 'perf probe' location when using DWARF on ppc64le (Ravi Bangoria)

- Allow specifying signedness casts to a 'perf probe' variable, to shorten
  the number of steps to see signed values that otherwise would always appear
  as hex values (Naohiro Aota)

Documentation fixes:

- Add 'bpf-output' field to 'perf script' usage message (Brendan Gregg)

Infrastructure fixes:

- Sync kernel header files: cpufeatures.h, {disabled,required}-features.h,
  bpf.h and vmx.h, so that we get a clean build, without warnings about files
  being different from the kernel counterparts.

  A verification of the need or desirability of changes in tools/ based on what
  was done in the kernel changesets was made and documented in the respective
  file sync changesets (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)

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

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/sort.c b/tools/perf/util/sort.c
index 947d21f38398..3d3cb8392c86 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/sort.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/sort.c
@@ -588,7 +588,11 @@ static char *get_trace_output(struct hist_entry *he)
 	} else {
 		pevent_event_info(&seq, evsel->tp_format, &rec);
 	}
-	return seq.buffer;
+	/*
+	 * Trim the buffer, it starts at 4KB and we're not going to
+	 * add anything more to this buffer.
+	 */
+	return realloc(seq.buffer, seq.len + 1);
 }
 
 static int64_t