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

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

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

User visible changes:

  - Add ability to specify to select which registers to record,
    to reduce the size of perf.data files, and also allow printing
    the registers in 'perf script': (Stephane Eranian)

      # perf record --intr-regs=AX,SP usleep 1
      [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
      [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.016 MB perf.data (8 samples) ]
      # perf script -F ip,sym,iregs | tail -5
       ffffffff8105f42a native_write_msr_safe   AX:0xf    SP:0xffff8802629c3c00
       ffffffff8105f42a native_write_msr_safe   AX:0xf    SP:0xffff8802629c3c00
       ffffffff81761ac0 _raw_spin_lock   AX:0xffff8801bfcf8020    SP:0xffff8802629c3ce8
       ffffffff81202bf8 __vma_adjust_trans_huge   AX:0x7ffc75200000    SP:0xffff8802629c3b30
       ffffffff8122b089 dput   AX:0x101    SP:0xffff8802629c3c78
      #

Infrastructure changes:

  - Open event on evsel cpus and threads. (Kan Liang)

  - Add new bpf API to get name from a BPF object. (Wang Nan)

Build fixes:

  - Fix build on powerpc broken by pt/bts. (Adrian Hunter)

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