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

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

User visible changes:

- Mark events as (x86 only) in help output for 'perf kvm stat live" (Alexander Yarygin)

- Provide a better explanation when mmap fails in 'trace' (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)

- Add --buildid-dir option to set cache directory, i.e. use:

      $ perf --buildid-dir /path/to/dir tool --tool-options

  (Jiri Olsa)

- Fix memcpy/memset 'perf bench' output (Rabin Vicent)

- Fix 'perf test' attr tests size values to cope with machine state on
  interrupt ABI changes (Jiri Olsa)

- Fixup callchain type parameter handling error message (Kan Liang)

Infrastructure changes and cleanups:

- calloc/xcalloc: Fix argument order (Arjun Sreedharan)

- Move filename__read_int from tools/perf/ to tools/lib, add sysctl__read_int
  there and use it in place of ad-hoc copies (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)

- Use single strcmp call instead of two (Jiri Olsa)

- Remove extra debugdir variables in 'perf buildid-cache' (Jiri Olsa)

- Fix -a segfault related to kcore handling in 'perf buildid-cache' (Jiri Olsa)

- Move cpumode resolve code to add_callchain_ip (Kan Liang)

- Merge memset into memcpy 'perf bench' (Rabin Vincent)

- Change print format from %lu to %PRIu64 in the hists browser (Tom Huynh)

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

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/config.c b/tools/perf/util/config.c
index 57ff826..e18f653 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/config.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/config.c
@@ -522,7 +522,7 @@ static int buildid_dir_command_config(const char *var, const char *value,
 	const char *v;
 
 	/* same dir for all commands */
-	if (!prefixcmp(var, "buildid.") && !strcmp(var + 8, "dir")) {
+	if (!strcmp(var, "buildid.dir")) {
 		v = perf_config_dirname(var, value);
 		if (!v)
 			return -1;
@@ -539,12 +539,14 @@ static void check_buildid_dir_config(void)
 	perf_config(buildid_dir_command_config, &c);
 }
 
-void set_buildid_dir(void)
+void set_buildid_dir(const char *dir)
 {
-	buildid_dir[0] = '\0';
+	if (dir)
+		scnprintf(buildid_dir, MAXPATHLEN-1, "%s", dir);
 
 	/* try config file */
-	check_buildid_dir_config();
+	if (buildid_dir[0] == '\0')
+		check_buildid_dir_config();
 
 	/* default to $HOME/.debug */
 	if (buildid_dir[0] == '\0') {