34 files changed, 154 insertions, 163 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-event_source-devices-events b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-event_source-devices-events
index 8b25ffb42562..3c1cc24361bd 100644
--- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-event_source-devices-events
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-event_source-devices-events
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ Description:	Generic performance monitoring events
 
 What:           /sys/devices/cpu/events/PM_1PLUS_PPC_CMPL
                 /sys/devices/cpu/events/PM_BRU_FIN
-                /sys/devices/cpu/events/PM_BRU_MPRED
+                /sys/devices/cpu/events/PM_BR_MPRED
                 /sys/devices/cpu/events/PM_CMPLU_STALL
                 /sys/devices/cpu/events/PM_CMPLU_STALL_BRU
                 /sys/devices/cpu/events/PM_CMPLU_STALL_DCACHE_MISS
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/perf/power7-pmu.c b/arch/powerpc/perf/power7-pmu.c
index 13c3f0e547a2..d1821b8bbc4c 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/perf/power7-pmu.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/perf/power7-pmu.c
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@
 #define PME_PM_LD_REF_L1                0xc880
 #define PME_PM_LD_MISS_L1               0x400f0
 #define PME_PM_BRU_FIN                  0x10068
-#define PME_PM_BRU_MPRED                0x400f6
+#define PME_PM_BR_MPRED                 0x400f6
 
 #define PME_PM_CMPLU_STALL_FXU                  0x20014
 #define PME_PM_CMPLU_STALL_DIV                  0x40014
@@ -349,7 +349,7 @@ static int power7_generic_events[] = {
         [PERF_COUNT_HW_CACHE_REFERENCES] =              PME_PM_LD_REF_L1,
         [PERF_COUNT_HW_CACHE_MISSES] =                  PME_PM_LD_MISS_L1,
         [PERF_COUNT_HW_BRANCH_INSTRUCTIONS] =           PME_PM_BRU_FIN,
-        [PERF_COUNT_HW_BRANCH_MISSES] =                 PME_PM_BRU_MPRED,
+        [PERF_COUNT_HW_BRANCH_MISSES] =                 PME_PM_BR_MPRED,
 };
 
 #define C(x)    PERF_COUNT_HW_CACHE_##x
@@ -405,7 +405,7 @@ GENERIC_EVENT_ATTR(instructions,		INST_CMPL);
 GENERIC_EVENT_ATTR(cache-references,            LD_REF_L1);
 GENERIC_EVENT_ATTR(cache-misses,                LD_MISS_L1);
 GENERIC_EVENT_ATTR(branch-instructions,         BRU_FIN);
-GENERIC_EVENT_ATTR(branch-misses,               BRU_MPRED);
+GENERIC_EVENT_ATTR(branch-misses,               BR_MPRED);
 
 POWER_EVENT_ATTR(CYC,                           CYC);
 POWER_EVENT_ATTR(GCT_NOSLOT_CYC,                GCT_NOSLOT_CYC);
@@ -414,7 +414,7 @@ POWER_EVENT_ATTR(INST_CMPL,			INST_CMPL);
 POWER_EVENT_ATTR(LD_REF_L1,                     LD_REF_L1);
 POWER_EVENT_ATTR(LD_MISS_L1,                    LD_MISS_L1);
 POWER_EVENT_ATTR(BRU_FIN,                       BRU_FIN)
-POWER_EVENT_ATTR(BRU_MPRED,                     BRU_MPRED);
+POWER_EVENT_ATTR(BR_MPRED,                      BR_MPRED);
 
 POWER_EVENT_ATTR(CMPLU_STALL_FXU,               CMPLU_STALL_FXU);
 POWER_EVENT_ATTR(CMPLU_STALL_DIV,               CMPLU_STALL_DIV);
@@ -449,7 +449,7 @@ static struct attribute *power7_events_attr[] = {
         GENERIC_EVENT_PTR(LD_REF_L1),
         GENERIC_EVENT_PTR(LD_MISS_L1),
         GENERIC_EVENT_PTR(BRU_FIN),
-        GENERIC_EVENT_PTR(BRU_MPRED),
+        GENERIC_EVENT_PTR(BR_MPRED),
 
         POWER_EVENT_PTR(CYC),
         POWER_EVENT_PTR(GCT_NOSLOT_CYC),
@@ -458,7 +458,7 @@ static struct attribute *power7_events_attr[] = {
         POWER_EVENT_PTR(LD_REF_L1),
         POWER_EVENT_PTR(LD_MISS_L1),
         POWER_EVENT_PTR(BRU_FIN),
-        POWER_EVENT_PTR(BRU_MPRED),
+        POWER_EVENT_PTR(BR_MPRED),
 
         POWER_EVENT_PTR(CMPLU_STALL_FXU),
         POWER_EVENT_PTR(CMPLU_STALL_DIV),
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/nmi.c b/arch/x86/kernel/nmi.c
index 0920212e6159..ba77ebc2c353 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/nmi.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/nmi.c
@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ static int __kprobes nmi_handle(unsigned int type, struct pt_regs *regs, bool b2
          */
         list_for_each_entry_rcu(a, &desc->head, list) {
                 u64 before, delta, whole_msecs;
-                int decimal_msecs, thishandled;
+                int remainder_ns, decimal_msecs, thishandled;
 
                 before = local_clock();
                 thishandled = a->handler(type, regs);
@@ -123,8 +123,9 @@ static int __kprobes nmi_handle(unsigned int type, struct pt_regs *regs, bool b2
                         continue;
 
                 nmi_longest_ns = delta;
-                whole_msecs = do_div(delta, (1000 * 1000));
-                decimal_msecs = do_div(delta, 1000) % 1000;
+                whole_msecs = delta;
+                remainder_ns = do_div(whole_msecs, (1000 * 1000));
+                decimal_msecs = remainder_ns / 1000;
                 printk_ratelimited(KERN_INFO
                         "INFO: NMI handler (%ps) took too long to run: "
                         "%lld.%03d msecs\n", a->handler, whole_msecs,
diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c
index 1833bc5a84a7..eba8fb5834ae 100644
--- a/kernel/events/core.c
+++ b/kernel/events/core.c
@@ -947,8 +947,18 @@ perf_lock_task_context(struct task_struct *task, int ctxn, unsigned long *flags)
 {
         struct perf_event_context *ctx;
 
-        rcu_read_lock();
 retry:
+        /*
+         * One of the few rules of preemptible RCU is that one cannot do
+         * rcu_read_unlock() while holding a scheduler (or nested) lock when
+         * part of the read side critical section was preemptible -- see
+         * rcu_read_unlock_special().
+         *
+         * Since ctx->lock nests under rq->lock we must ensure the entire read
+         * side critical section is non-preemptible.
+         */
+        preempt_disable();
+        rcu_read_lock();
         ctx = rcu_dereference(task->perf_event_ctxp[ctxn]);
         if (ctx) {
                 /*
@@ -964,6 +974,8 @@ retry:
                 raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&ctx->lock, *flags);
                 if (ctx != rcu_dereference(task->perf_event_ctxp[ctxn])) {
                         raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&ctx->lock, *flags);
+                        rcu_read_unlock();
+                        preempt_enable();
                         goto retry;
                 }
 
@@ -973,6 +985,7 @@ retry:
                 }
         }
         rcu_read_unlock();
+        preempt_enable();
         return ctx;
 }
 
@@ -1950,7 +1963,16 @@ static int __perf_event_enable(void *info)
         struct perf_cpu_context *cpuctx = __get_cpu_context(ctx);
         int err;
 
-        if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!ctx->is_active))
+        /*
+         * There's a time window between 'ctx->is_active' check
+         * in perf_event_enable function and this place having:
+         *   - IRQs on
+         *   - ctx->lock unlocked
+         *
+         * where the task could be killed and 'ctx' deactivated
+         * by perf_event_exit_task.
+         */
+        if (!ctx->is_active)
                 return -EINVAL;
 
         raw_spin_lock(&ctx->lock);
@@ -7465,7 +7487,7 @@ inherit_task_group(struct perf_event *event, struct task_struct *parent,
                  * child.
                  */
 
-                child_ctx = alloc_perf_context(event->pmu, child);
+                child_ctx = alloc_perf_context(parent_ctx->pmu, child);
                 if (!child_ctx)
                         return -ENOMEM;
 
diff --git a/tools/lib/lk/Makefile b/tools/lib/lk/Makefile
index 2c5a19733357..280dd8205430 100644
--- a/tools/lib/lk/Makefile
+++ b/tools/lib/lk/Makefile
@@ -3,6 +3,21 @@ include ../../scripts/Makefile.include
 CC = $(CROSS_COMPILE)gcc
 AR = $(CROSS_COMPILE)ar
 
+# Makefiles suck: This macro sets a default value of $(2) for the
+# variable named by $(1), unless the variable has been set by
+# environment or command line. This is necessary for CC and AR
+# because make sets default values, so the simpler ?= approach
+# won't work as expected.
+define allow-override
+  $(if $(or $(findstring environment,$(origin $(1))),\
+            $(findstring command line,$(origin $(1)))),,\
+    $(eval $(1) = $(2)))
+endef
+
+# Allow setting CC and AR, or setting CROSS_COMPILE as a prefix.
+$(call allow-override,CC,$(CROSS_COMPILE)gcc)
+$(call allow-override,AR,$(CROSS_COMPILE)ar)
+
 # guard against environment variables
 LIB_H=
 LIB_OBJS=
@@ -14,7 +29,7 @@ LIB_OBJS += $(OUTPUT)debugfs.o
 LIBFILE = liblk.a
 
 CFLAGS = -ggdb3 -Wall -Wextra -std=gnu99 -Werror -O6 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 $(EXTRA_WARNINGS) $(EXTRA_CFLAGS) -fPIC
-EXTLIBS = -lpthread -lrt -lelf -lm
+EXTLIBS = -lelf -lpthread -lrt -lm
 ALL_CFLAGS = $(CFLAGS) $(BASIC_CFLAGS) -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64
 ALL_LDFLAGS = $(LDFLAGS)
 
diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/Makefile b/tools/perf/Documentation/Makefile
index eb30044a922a..5a37a7c84e69 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/Makefile
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/Makefile
@@ -1,12 +1,6 @@
+include ../../scripts/Makefile.include
 include ../config/utilities.mak
 
-OUTPUT := ./
-ifeq ("$(origin O)", "command line")
-  ifneq ($(O),)
-        OUTPUT := $(O)/
-  endif
-endif
-
 MAN1_TXT= \
         $(filter-out $(addsuffix .txt, $(ARTICLES) $(SP_ARTICLES)), \
                 $(wildcard perf-*.txt)) \
@@ -150,7 +144,7 @@ NO_SUBDIR = :
 endif
 
 ifneq ($(findstring $(MAKEFLAGS),s),s)
-ifndef V
+ifneq ($(V),1)
         QUIET_ASCIIDOC  = @echo '   ' ASCIIDOC $@;
         QUIET_XMLTO     = @echo '   ' XMLTO $@;
         QUIET_DB2TEXI   = @echo '   ' DB2TEXI $@;
@@ -277,7 +271,7 @@ $(MAN_HTML): $(OUTPUT)%.html : %.txt
 
 $(OUTPUT)%.1 $(OUTPUT)%.5 $(OUTPUT)%.7 : $(OUTPUT)%.xml
         $(QUIET_XMLTO)$(RM) $@ && \
-        $(XMLTO) -o $(OUTPUT) -m $(MANPAGE_XSL) $(XMLTO_EXTRA) man $<
+        $(XMLTO) -o $(OUTPUT). -m $(MANPAGE_XSL) $(XMLTO_EXTRA) man $<
 
 $(OUTPUT)%.xml : %.txt
         $(QUIET_ASCIIDOC)$(RM) $@+ $@ && \
diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/examples.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/examples.txt
index 77f952762426..a4e392156488 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/examples.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/examples.txt
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ Furthermore, these tracepoints can be used to sample the workload as
 well. For example the page allocations done by a 'git gc' can be
 captured the following way:
 
- titan:~/git> perf record -f -e kmem:mm_page_alloc -c 1 ./git gc
+ titan:~/git> perf record -e kmem:mm_page_alloc -c 1 ./git gc
  Counting objects: 1148, done.
  Delta compression using up to 2 threads.
  Compressing objects: 100% (450/450), done.
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ Furthermore, call-graph sampling can be done too, of page
 allocations - to see precisely what kind of page allocations there
 are:
 
- titan:~/git> perf record -f -g -e kmem:mm_page_alloc -c 1 ./git gc
+ titan:~/git> perf record -g -e kmem:mm_page_alloc -c 1 ./git gc
  Counting objects: 1148, done.
  Delta compression using up to 2 threads.
  Compressing objects: 100% (450/450), done.
diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt
index d4da111ef53d..e297b74471b8 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt
@@ -65,16 +65,10 @@ OPTIONS
 -r::
 --realtime=::
         Collect data with this RT SCHED_FIFO priority.
+
 -D::
 --no-delay::
         Collect data without buffering.
--A::
---append::
-        Append to the output file to do incremental profiling.
-
--f::
---force::
-        Overwrite existing data file. (deprecated)
 
 -c::
 --count=::
diff --git a/tools/perf/Makefile b/tools/perf/Makefile
index 203cb0eecff2..641fccddb249 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Makefile
+++ b/tools/perf/Makefile
@@ -121,17 +121,16 @@ SCRIPT_SH += perf-archive.sh
 grep-libs = $(filter -l%,$(1))
 strip-libs = $(filter-out -l%,$(1))
 
-LK_PATH=$(LK_DIR)
-
 ifneq ($(OUTPUT),)
   TE_PATH=$(OUTPUT)
 ifneq ($(subdir),)
-  LK_PATH=$(OUTPUT)$(LK_DIR)
+  LK_PATH=$(objtree)/lib/lk/
 else
   LK_PATH=$(OUTPUT)
 endif
 else
   TE_PATH=$(TRACE_EVENT_DIR)
+  LK_PATH=$(LK_DIR)
 endif
 
 LIBTRACEEVENT = $(TE_PATH)libtraceevent.a
diff --git a/tools/perf/bench/mem-memcpy.c b/tools/perf/bench/mem-memcpy.c
index 93c83e3cb4a7..25fd3f1966f1 100644
--- a/tools/perf/bench/mem-memcpy.c
+++ b/tools/perf/bench/mem-memcpy.c
@@ -111,11 +111,11 @@ static double timeval2double(struct timeval *ts)
 static void alloc_mem(void **dst, void **src, size_t length)
 {
         *dst = zalloc(length);
-        if (!dst)
+        if (!*dst)
                 die("memory allocation failed - maybe length is too large?\n");
 
         *src = zalloc(length);
-        if (!src)
+        if (!*src)
                 die("memory allocation failed - maybe length is too large?\n");
 }
 
diff --git a/tools/perf/bench/mem-memset.c b/tools/perf/bench/mem-memset.c
index c6e4bc523492..4a2f12081964 100644
--- a/tools/perf/bench/mem-memset.c
+++ b/tools/perf/bench/mem-memset.c
@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ static double timeval2double(struct timeval *ts)
 static void alloc_mem(void **dst, size_t length)
 {
         *dst = zalloc(length);
-        if (!dst)
+        if (!*dst)
                 die("memory allocation failed - maybe length is too large?\n");
 }
 
diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-diff.c b/tools/perf/builtin-diff.c
index da8f8eb383a0..0aac5f3e594d 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-diff.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-diff.c
@@ -607,7 +607,6 @@ int cmd_diff(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix __maybe_unused)
                 input_new = "perf.data.guest";
         }
 
-        symbol_conf.exclude_other = false;
         if (symbol__init() < 0)
                 return -1;
 
diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-kmem.c b/tools/perf/builtin-kmem.c
index 46878daca5cc..0259502638b4 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-kmem.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-kmem.c
@@ -708,7 +708,7 @@ static int parse_line_opt(const struct option *opt __maybe_unused,
 static int __cmd_record(int argc, const char **argv)
 {
         const char * const record_args[] = {
-        "record", "-a", "-R", "-f", "-c", "1",
+        "record", "-a", "-R", "-c", "1",
         "-e", "kmem:kmalloc",
         "-e", "kmem:kmalloc_node",
         "-e", "kmem:kfree",
diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-lock.c b/tools/perf/builtin-lock.c
index 425830069749..76543a4a7a30 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-lock.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-lock.c
@@ -878,7 +878,7 @@ static int __cmd_report(void)
 static int __cmd_record(int argc, const char **argv)
 {
         const char *record_args[] = {
-                "record", "-R", "-f", "-m", "1024", "-c", "1",
+                "record", "-R", "-m", "1024", "-c", "1",
         };
         unsigned int rec_argc, i, j;
         const char **rec_argv;
diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
index fff985cf3852..ecca62e27b28 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
@@ -61,11 +61,6 @@ static void __handle_on_exit_funcs(void)
 }
 #endif
 
-enum write_mode_t {
-        WRITE_FORCE,
-        WRITE_APPEND
-};
-
 struct perf_record {
         struct perf_tool        tool;
         struct perf_record_opts opts;
@@ -77,12 +72,8 @@ struct perf_record {
         int                     output;
         unsigned int            page_size;
         int                     realtime_prio;
-        enum write_mode_t       write_mode;
         bool                    no_buildid;
         bool                    no_buildid_cache;
-        bool                    force;
-        bool                    file_new;
-        bool                    append_file;
         long                    samples;
         off_t                   post_processing_offset;
 };
@@ -200,25 +191,6 @@ static void perf_record__sig_exit(int exit_status __maybe_unused, void *arg)
         signal(signr, SIG_DFL);
 }
 
-static bool perf_evlist__equal(struct perf_evlist *evlist,
-                               struct perf_evlist *other)
-{
-        struct perf_evsel *pos, *pair;
-
-        if (evlist->nr_entries != other->nr_entries)
-                return false;
-
-        pair = perf_evlist__first(other);
-
-        list_for_each_entry(pos, &evlist->entries, node) {
-                if (memcmp(&pos->attr, &pair->attr, sizeof(pos->attr) != 0))
-                        return false;
-                pair = perf_evsel__next(pair);
-        }
-
-        return true;
-}
-
 static int perf_record__open(struct perf_record *rec)
 {
         char msg[512];
@@ -273,16 +245,7 @@ try_again:
                 goto out;
         }
 
-        if (rec->file_new)
-                session->evlist = evlist;
-        else {
-                if (!perf_evlist__equal(session->evlist, evlist)) {
-                        fprintf(stderr, "incompatible append\n");
-                        rc = -1;
-                        goto out;
-                }
-        }
-
+        session->evlist = evlist;
         perf_session__set_id_hdr_size(session);
 out:
         return rc;
@@ -415,23 +378,15 @@ static int __cmd_record(struct perf_record *rec, int argc, const char **argv)
                 if (!strcmp(output_name, "-"))
                         opts->pipe_output = true;
                 else if (!stat(output_name, &st) && st.st_size) {
-                        if (rec->write_mode == WRITE_FORCE) {
-                                char oldname[PATH_MAX];
-                                snprintf(oldname, sizeof(oldname), "%s.old",
-                                         output_name);
-                                unlink(oldname);
-                                rename(output_name, oldname);
-                        }
-                } else if (rec->write_mode == WRITE_APPEND) {
-                        rec->write_mode = WRITE_FORCE;
+                        char oldname[PATH_MAX];
+                        snprintf(oldname, sizeof(oldname), "%s.old",
+                                 output_name);
+                        unlink(oldname);
+                        rename(output_name, oldname);
                 }
         }
 
-        flags = O_CREAT|O_RDWR;
-        if (rec->write_mode == WRITE_APPEND)
-                rec->file_new = 0;
-        else
-                flags |= O_TRUNC;
+        flags = O_CREAT|O_RDWR|O_TRUNC;
 
         if (opts->pipe_output)
                 output = STDOUT_FILENO;
@@ -445,7 +400,7 @@ static int __cmd_record(struct perf_record *rec, int argc, const char **argv)
         rec->output = output;
 
         session = perf_session__new(output_name, O_WRONLY,
-                                    rec->write_mode == WRITE_FORCE, false, NULL);
+                                    true, false, NULL);
         if (session == NULL) {
                 pr_err("Not enough memory for reading perf file header\n");
                 return -1;
@@ -465,12 +420,6 @@ static int __cmd_record(struct perf_record *rec, int argc, const char **argv)
         if (!rec->opts.branch_stack)
                 perf_header__clear_feat(&session->header, HEADER_BRANCH_STACK);
 
-        if (!rec->file_new) {
-                err = perf_session__read_header(session, output);
-                if (err < 0)
-                        goto out_delete_session;
-        }
-
         if (forks) {
                 err = perf_evlist__prepare_workload(evsel_list, &opts->target,
                                                     argv, opts->pipe_output,
@@ -498,7 +447,7 @@ static int __cmd_record(struct perf_record *rec, int argc, const char **argv)
                 err = perf_header__write_pipe(output);
                 if (err < 0)
                         goto out_delete_session;
-        } else if (rec->file_new) {
+        } else {
                 err = perf_session__write_header(session, evsel_list,
                                                  output, false);
                 if (err < 0)
@@ -869,8 +818,6 @@ static struct perf_record record = {
                         .uses_mmap   = true,
                 },
         },
-        .write_mode = WRITE_FORCE,
-        .file_new   = true,
 };
 
 #define CALLCHAIN_HELP "do call-graph (stack chain/backtrace) recording: "
@@ -906,12 +853,8 @@ const struct option record_options[] = {
                     "collect raw sample records from all opened counters"),
         OPT_BOOLEAN('a', "all-cpus", &record.opts.target.system_wide,
                             "system-wide collection from all CPUs"),
-        OPT_BOOLEAN('A', "append", &record.append_file,
-                            "append to the output file to do incremental profiling"),
         OPT_STRING('C', "cpu", &record.opts.target.cpu_list, "cpu",
                     "list of cpus to monitor"),
-        OPT_BOOLEAN('f', "force", &record.force,
-                        "overwrite existing data file (deprecated)"),
         OPT_U64('c', "count", &record.opts.user_interval, "event period to sample"),
         OPT_STRING('o', "output", &record.output_name, "file",
                     "output file name"),
@@ -977,16 +920,6 @@ int cmd_record(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix __maybe_unused)
         if (!argc && perf_target__none(&rec->opts.target))
                 usage_with_options(record_usage, record_options);
 
-        if (rec->force && rec->append_file) {
-                ui__error("Can't overwrite and append at the same time."
-                          " You need to choose between -f and -A");
-                usage_with_options(record_usage, record_options);
-        } else if (rec->append_file) {
-                rec->write_mode = WRITE_APPEND;
-        } else {
-                rec->write_mode = WRITE_FORCE;
-        }
-
         if (nr_cgroups && !rec->opts.target.system_wide) {
                 ui__error("cgroup monitoring only available in"
                           " system-wide mode\n");
diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-report.c b/tools/perf/builtin-report.c
index ca98d34cd58b..3662047cc6b1 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-report.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-report.c
@@ -939,8 +939,7 @@ repeat:
                  */
                 if (!strstr(sort_order, "parent"))
                         sort_parent.elide = 1;
-        } else
-                symbol_conf.exclude_other = false;
+        }
 
         if (argc) {
                 /*
diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-sched.c b/tools/perf/builtin-sched.c
index 2da2a6ca22bf..fed9ae432c16 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-sched.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-sched.c
@@ -1632,7 +1632,6 @@ static int __cmd_record(int argc, const char **argv)
                 "record",
                 "-a",
                 "-R",
-                "-f",
                 "-m", "1024",
                 "-c", "1",
                 "-e", "sched:sched_switch",
diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c b/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c
index 7e910bab1097..352fbd7ff4a1 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ static int			run_count			=  1;
 static bool                     no_inherit                      = false;
 static bool                     scale                           =  true;
 static enum aggr_mode           aggr_mode                       = AGGR_GLOBAL;
-static pid_t                    child_pid                       = -1;
+static volatile pid_t           child_pid                       = -1;
 static bool                     null_run                        =  false;
 static int                      detailed_run                    =  0;
 static bool                     big_num                         =  true;
@@ -924,7 +924,7 @@ static void abs_printout(int cpu, int nr, struct perf_evsel *evsel, double avg)
 static void print_aggr(char *prefix)
 {
         struct perf_evsel *counter;
-        int cpu, s, s2, id, nr;
+        int cpu, cpu2, s, s2, id, nr;
         u64 ena, run, val;
 
         if (!(aggr_map || aggr_get_id))
@@ -936,7 +936,8 @@ static void print_aggr(char *prefix)
                         val = ena = run = 0;
                         nr = 0;
                         for (cpu = 0; cpu < perf_evsel__nr_cpus(counter); cpu++) {
-                                s2 = aggr_get_id(evsel_list->cpus, cpu);
+                                cpu2 = perf_evsel__cpus(counter)->map[cpu];
+                                s2 = aggr_get_id(evsel_list->cpus, cpu2);
                                 if (s2 != id)
                                         continue;
                                 val += counter->counts->cpu[cpu].val;
@@ -948,7 +949,7 @@ static void print_aggr(char *prefix)
                                 fprintf(output, "%s", prefix);
 
                         if (run == 0 || ena == 0) {
-                                aggr_printout(counter, cpu, nr);
+                                aggr_printout(counter, id, nr);
 
                                 fprintf(output, "%*s%s%*s",
                                         csv_output ? 0 : 18,
@@ -1148,13 +1149,34 @@ static void skip_signal(int signo)
                 done = 1;
 
         signr = signo;
+        /*
+         * render child_pid harmless
+         * won't send SIGTERM to a random
+         * process in case of race condition
+         * and fast PID recycling
+         */
+        child_pid = -1;
 }
 
 static void sig_atexit(void)
 {
+        sigset_t set, oset;
+
+        /*
+         * avoid race condition with SIGCHLD handler
+         * in skip_signal() which is modifying child_pid
+         * goal is to avoid send SIGTERM to a random
+         * process
+         */
+        sigemptyset(&set);
+        sigaddset(&set, SIGCHLD);
+        sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, &set, &oset);
+
         if (child_pid != -1)
                 kill(child_pid, SIGTERM);
 
+        sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, &oset, NULL);
+
         if (signr == -1)
                 return;
 
diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-timechart.c b/tools/perf/builtin-timechart.c
index ab4cf232b852..4536a92b18f3 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-timechart.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-timechart.c
@@ -1005,7 +1005,7 @@ static int __cmd_record(int argc, const char **argv)
 {
 #ifdef SUPPORT_OLD_POWER_EVENTS
         const char * const record_old_args[] = {
-                "record", "-a", "-R", "-f", "-c", "1",
+                "record", "-a", "-R", "-c", "1",
                 "-e", "power:power_start",
                 "-e", "power:power_end",
                 "-e", "power:power_frequency",
@@ -1014,7 +1014,7 @@ static int __cmd_record(int argc, const char **argv)
         };
 #endif
         const char * const record_new_args[] = {
-                "record", "-a", "-R", "-f", "-c", "1",
+                "record", "-a", "-R", "-c", "1",
                 "-e", "power:cpu_frequency",
                 "-e", "power:cpu_idle",
                 "-e", "sched:sched_wakeup",
diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-top.c b/tools/perf/builtin-top.c
index f036af9b6f09..e06c4f869330 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-top.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-top.c
@@ -1130,8 +1130,6 @@ int cmd_top(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix __maybe_unused)
         if (top.evlist == NULL)
                 return -ENOMEM;
 
-        symbol_conf.exclude_other = false;
-
         argc = parse_options(argc, argv, options, top_usage, 0);
         if (argc)
                 usage_with_options(top_usage, options);
diff --git a/tools/perf/config/Makefile b/tools/perf/config/Makefile
index f139dcd2796e..b5d9238cb181 100644
--- a/tools/perf/config/Makefile
+++ b/tools/perf/config/Makefile
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ src-perf := $(srctree)/tools/perf
 endif
 
 ifeq ($(obj-perf),)
-obj-perf := $(objtree)
+obj-perf := $(OUTPUT)
 endif
 
 ifneq ($(obj-perf),)
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ CFLAGS += -Wall
 CFLAGS += -Wextra
 CFLAGS += -std=gnu99
 
-EXTLIBS = -lpthread -lrt -lelf -lm
+EXTLIBS = -lelf -lpthread -lrt -lm
 
 ifeq ($(call try-cc,$(SOURCE_HELLO),$(CFLAGS) -Werror -fstack-protector-all,-fstack-protector-all),y)
   CFLAGS += -fstack-protector-all
@@ -165,7 +165,7 @@ else
     LIBDW_LDFLAGS := -L$(LIBDW_DIR)/lib
   endif
 
-  FLAGS_DWARF=$(CFLAGS) $(LIBDW_CFLAGS) -ldw -lelf $(LIBDW_LDFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS) $(EXTLIBS)
+  FLAGS_DWARF=$(CFLAGS) $(LIBDW_CFLAGS) -ldw -lz -lelf $(LIBDW_LDFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS) $(EXTLIBS)
   ifneq ($(call try-cc,$(SOURCE_DWARF),$(FLAGS_DWARF),libdw),y)
     msg := $(warning No libdw.h found or old libdw.h found or elfutils is older than 0.138, disables dwarf support. Please install new elfutils-devel/libdw-dev);
     NO_DWARF := 1
diff --git a/tools/perf/config/utilities.mak b/tools/perf/config/utilities.mak
index 8ef3bd30a549..94d2d4f9c35d 100644
--- a/tools/perf/config/utilities.mak
+++ b/tools/perf/config/utilities.mak
@@ -173,7 +173,7 @@ _ge-abspath = $(if $(is-executable),$(1))
 # Usage: absolute-executable-path-or-empty = $(call get-executable-or-default,variable,default)
 #
 define get-executable-or-default
-$(if $($(1)),$(call _ge_attempt,$($(1)),$(1)),$(call _ge_attempt,$(2),$(1)))
+$(if $($(1)),$(call _ge_attempt,$($(1)),$(1)),$(call _ge_attempt,$(2)))
 endef
 _ge_attempt = $(if $(get-executable),$(get-executable),$(_gea_warn)$(call _gea_err,$(2)))
 _gea_warn = $(warning The path '$(1)' is not executable.)
@@ -181,7 +181,7 @@ _gea_err  = $(if $(1),$(error Please set '$(1)' appropriately))
 
 # try-cc
 # Usage: option = $(call try-cc, source-to-build, cc-options, msg)
-ifndef V
+ifneq ($(V),1)
 TRY_CC_OUTPUT= > /dev/null 2>&1
 endif
 TRY_CC_MSG=echo "    CHK $(3)" 1>&2;
diff --git a/tools/perf/scripts/perl/Perf-Trace-Util/Context.xs b/tools/perf/scripts/perl/Perf-Trace-Util/Context.xs
index c1e2ed1ed34e..8c7ea42444d1 100644
--- a/tools/perf/scripts/perl/Perf-Trace-Util/Context.xs
+++ b/tools/perf/scripts/perl/Perf-Trace-Util/Context.xs
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
 #include "perl.h"
 #include "XSUB.h"
 #include "../../../perf.h"
-#include "../../../util/script-event.h"
+#include "../../../util/trace-event.h"
 
 MODULE = Perf::Trace::Context           PACKAGE = Perf::Trace::Context
 PROTOTYPES: ENABLE
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/PERF-VERSION-GEN b/tools/perf/util/PERF-VERSION-GEN
index 055fef34b6f6..15a77b7c0e36 100755
--- a/tools/perf/util/PERF-VERSION-GEN
+++ b/tools/perf/util/PERF-VERSION-GEN
@@ -13,13 +13,22 @@ LF='
 # First check if there is a .git to get the version from git describe
 # otherwise try to get the version from the kernel Makefile
 #
-if test -d ../../.git -o -f ../../.git &&
-        VN=$(git tag 2>/dev/null | tail -1 | grep -E "v[0-9].[0-9]*")
+CID=
+TAG=
+if test -d ../../.git -o -f ../../.git
 then
-        VN=$(echo $VN"-g"$(git log -1 --abbrev=4 --pretty=format:"%h" HEAD))
-        VN=$(echo "$VN" | sed -e 's/-/./g');
-else
-        VN=$(MAKEFLAGS= make -sC ../.. kernelversion)
+        TAG=$(git describe --abbrev=0 --match "v[0-9].[0-9]*" 2>/dev/null )
+        CID=$(git log -1 --abbrev=4 --pretty=format:"%h" 2>/dev/null) && CID="-g$CID"
+fi
+if test -z "$TAG"
+then
+        TAG=$(MAKEFLAGS= make -sC ../.. kernelversion)
+fi
+VN="$TAG$CID"
+if test -n "$CID"
+then
+        # format version string, strip trailing zero of sublevel:
+        VN=$(echo "$VN" | sed -e 's/-/./g;s/\([0-9]*[.][0-9]*\)[.]0/\1/')
 fi
 
 VN=$(expr "$VN" : v*'\(.*\)')
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/dso.c b/tools/perf/util/dso.c
index 6f7d5a9d6b05..c4374f07603c 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/dso.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/dso.c
@@ -513,10 +513,16 @@ void dsos__add(struct list_head *head, struct dso *dso)
         list_add_tail(&dso->node, head);
 }
 
-struct dso *dsos__find(struct list_head *head, const char *name)
+struct dso *dsos__find(struct list_head *head, const char *name, bool cmp_short)
 {
         struct dso *pos;
 
+        if (cmp_short) {
+                list_for_each_entry(pos, head, node)
+                        if (strcmp(pos->short_name, name) == 0)
+                                return pos;
+                return NULL;
+        }
         list_for_each_entry(pos, head, node)
                 if (strcmp(pos->long_name, name) == 0)
                         return pos;
@@ -525,7 +531,7 @@ struct dso *dsos__find(struct list_head *head, const char *name)
 
 struct dso *__dsos__findnew(struct list_head *head, const char *name)
 {
-        struct dso *dso = dsos__find(head, name);
+        struct dso *dso = dsos__find(head, name, false);
 
         if (!dso) {
                 dso = dso__new(name);
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/dso.h b/tools/perf/util/dso.h
index 450199ab51b5..d51aaf272c68 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/dso.h
+++ b/tools/perf/util/dso.h
@@ -133,7 +133,8 @@ struct dso *dso__kernel_findnew(struct machine *machine, const char *name,
                                 const char *short_name, int dso_type);
 
 void dsos__add(struct list_head *head, struct dso *dso);
-struct dso *dsos__find(struct list_head *head, const char *name);
+struct dso *dsos__find(struct list_head *head, const char *name,
+                       bool cmp_short);
 struct dso *__dsos__findnew(struct list_head *head, const char *name);
 bool __dsos__read_build_ids(struct list_head *head, bool with_hits);
 
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/evlist.c b/tools/perf/util/evlist.c
index 99b43dd18c57..8065ce8fa9a5 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/evlist.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/evlist.c
@@ -821,6 +821,7 @@ int perf_evlist__prepare_workload(struct perf_evlist *evlist,
                 goto out_close_pipes;
         }
 
+        fcntl(go_pipe[1], F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC);
         evlist->workload.cork_fd = go_pipe[1];
         close(child_ready_pipe[0]);
         return 0;
@@ -837,10 +838,17 @@ out_close_ready_pipe:
 int perf_evlist__start_workload(struct perf_evlist *evlist)
 {
         if (evlist->workload.cork_fd > 0) {
+                char bf;
+                int ret;
                 /*
                  * Remove the cork, let it rip!
                  */
-                return close(evlist->workload.cork_fd);
+                ret = write(evlist->workload.cork_fd, &bf, 1);
+                if (ret < 0)
+                        perror("enable to write to pipe");
+
+                close(evlist->workload.cork_fd);
+                return ret;
         }
 
         return 0;
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/evsel.c b/tools/perf/util/evsel.c
index 63b6f8c8edf2..c9c7494506a1 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/evsel.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/evsel.c
@@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ struct event_format *event_format__new(const char *sys, const char *name)
                         bf = nbf;
                 }
 
-                n = read(fd, bf + size, BUFSIZ);
+                n = read(fd, bf + size, alloc_size - size);
                 if (n < 0)
                         goto out_free_bf;
                 size += n;
@@ -1170,7 +1170,7 @@ int perf_evsel__parse_sample(struct perf_evsel *evsel, union perf_event *event,
                 } else {
                         data->user_stack.data = (char *)array;
                         array += size / sizeof(*array);
-                        data->user_stack.size = *array;
+                        data->user_stack.size = *array++;
                 }
         }
 
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/header.c b/tools/perf/util/header.c
index 738d3b8d9745..a4dafbee2511 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/header.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/header.c
@@ -2303,29 +2303,18 @@ int perf_session__write_header(struct perf_session *session,
         struct perf_file_header f_header;
         struct perf_file_attr   f_attr;
         struct perf_header *header = &session->header;
-        struct perf_evsel *evsel, *pair = NULL;
+        struct perf_evsel *evsel;
         int err;
 
         lseek(fd, sizeof(f_header), SEEK_SET);
 
-        if (session->evlist != evlist)
-                pair = perf_evlist__first(session->evlist);
-
         list_for_each_entry(evsel, &evlist->entries, node) {
                 evsel->id_offset = lseek(fd, 0, SEEK_CUR);
                 err = do_write(fd, evsel->id, evsel->ids * sizeof(u64));
                 if (err < 0) {
-out_err_write:
                         pr_debug("failed to write perf header\n");
                         return err;
                 }
-                if (session->evlist != evlist) {
-                        err = do_write(fd, pair->id, pair->ids * sizeof(u64));
-                        if (err < 0)
-                                goto out_err_write;
-                        evsel->ids += pair->ids;
-                        pair = perf_evsel__next(pair);
-                }
         }
 
         header->attr_offset = lseek(fd, 0, SEEK_CUR);
@@ -2967,6 +2956,8 @@ int perf_event__process_attr(union perf_event *event,
                 perf_evlist__id_add(evlist, evsel, 0, i, event->attr.id[i]);
         }
 
+        symbol_conf.nr_events = evlist->nr_entries;
+
         return 0;
 }
 
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c b/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c
index 6c8bb0fb189b..995fc25db8c6 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c
@@ -860,7 +860,8 @@ int parse_events_terms(struct list_head *terms, const char *str)
                 return 0;
         }
 
-        parse_events__free_terms(data.terms);
+        if (data.terms)
+                parse_events__free_terms(data.terms);
         return ret;
 }
 
@@ -1183,6 +1184,7 @@ static int new_term(struct parse_events_term **_term, int type_val,
                 term->val.str = str;
                 break;
         default:
+                free(term);
                 return -EINVAL;
         }
 
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/symbol.c b/tools/perf/util/symbol.c
index 8cf3b5426a9a..d5528e1cc03a 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/symbol.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/symbol.c
@@ -32,7 +32,6 @@ int vmlinux_path__nr_entries;
 char **vmlinux_path;
 
 struct symbol_conf symbol_conf = {
-        .exclude_other    = true,
         .use_modules      = true,
         .try_vmlinux_path = true,
         .annotate_src     = true,
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/util.h b/tools/perf/util/util.h
index 7a484c97e500..2732fad03908 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/util.h
+++ b/tools/perf/util/util.h
@@ -72,6 +72,7 @@
 #include "types.h"
 #include <sys/ttydefaults.h>
 #include <lk/debugfs.h>
+#include <termios.h>
 
 extern const char *graph_line;
 extern const char *graph_dotted_line;
@@ -274,6 +275,5 @@ void dump_stack(void);
 
 extern unsigned int page_size;
 
-struct winsize;
 void get_term_dimensions(struct winsize *ws);
 #endif /* GIT_COMPAT_UTIL_H */
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/vdso.c b/tools/perf/util/vdso.c
index e60951fcdb12..39159822d58f 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/vdso.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/vdso.c
@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ void vdso__exit(void)
 
 struct dso *vdso__dso_findnew(struct list_head *head)
 {
-        struct dso *dso = dsos__find(head, VDSO__MAP_NAME);
+        struct dso *dso = dsos__find(head, VDSO__MAP_NAME, true);
 
         if (!dso) {
                 char *file;
diff --git a/tools/scripts/Makefile.include b/tools/scripts/Makefile.include
index f03e681f8891..0d0506d55c71 100644
--- a/tools/scripts/Makefile.include
+++ b/tools/scripts/Makefile.include
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ QUIET_SUBDIR0  = +$(MAKE) $(COMMAND_O) -C # space to separate -C and subdir
 QUIET_SUBDIR1  =
 
 ifneq ($(findstring $(MAKEFLAGS),s),s)
-ifndef V
+ifneq ($(V),1)
         QUIET_CC       = @echo '   ' CC $@;
         QUIET_AR       = @echo '   ' AR $@;
         QUIET_LINK     = @echo '   ' LINK $@;