Merge tag 'perf-core-for-mingo-4.11-20170213' 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:

New features:

 - Introduce the 'delta-abs' 'perf diff' compute method, that orders the
   histogram entries by the absolute value of the percentage delta for a
   function in two perf.data files, i.e. the functions that changed the
   most (increase or decrease in samples) comes first (Namhyung Kim)

User visible changes:

 - Improve message about tweaking the kernel.perf_event_paranoid setting,
   telling how to make the change permanent by editing /etc/sysctl.conf
   (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)

Infrastructure changes:

 - Introduce linux/compiler-gcc.h as a counterpart to the kernel's,
   initially containing the definition of __fallthrough, more to
   come (__maybe_unused, etc) (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)

 - Fixes for problems uncovered by building tools/perf with clang, such
   as always true tests of arrays against NULL and variables that sometimes
   were used without being initialized (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo, Steven Rostedt)

 - Before loading a new ELF, clear global variables set by the
   samples/bpf loader (Mickaël Salaün)

 - Ignore already processed ELF sections in the samples/bpf
   loader (Mickaël Salaün)

 - Fix compile error in the scripting code with some perl5
   versions (Wang YanQing)

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

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/samples/bpf/bpf_load.c b/samples/bpf/bpf_load.c
index 396e204888b3..b86ee54da2d1 100644
--- a/samples/bpf/bpf_load.c
+++ b/samples/bpf/bpf_load.c
@@ -277,6 +277,11 @@ int load_bpf_file(char *path)
 	Elf_Data *data, *data_prog, *symbols = NULL;
 	char *shname, *shname_prog;
 
+	/* reset global variables */
+	kern_version = 0;
+	memset(license, 0, sizeof(license));
+	memset(processed_sec, 0, sizeof(processed_sec));
+
 	if (elf_version(EV_CURRENT) == EV_NONE)
 		return 1;
 
@@ -328,6 +333,8 @@ int load_bpf_file(char *path)
 
 	/* load programs that need map fixup (relocations) */
 	for (i = 1; i < ehdr.e_shnum; i++) {
+		if (processed_sec[i])
+			continue;
 
 		if (get_sec(elf, i, &ehdr, &shname, &shdr, &data))
 			continue;