Changelog for perf-4.4.143-50.1.x86_64.rpm :
Wed Aug 1 14:00:00 2018 tonyjAATTsuse.com
- PMU events are not listed because pvr code is missing for POWER9 (bsc#1075525 )
New patch: perf-pmu-extract-function-to-get-json-alias-map.patch
New patch: perf-pmu-only-print-using-cpuid-message-once.patch
New patch: perf-vendor-events-use-more-flexible-pattern-matching-for-cpu-identification-for-mapfile-csv.patch

Sat Jan 27 13:00:00 2018 tonyjAATTsuse.com
- Correctly handle \'~\' operation in traceevent print flags (bsc#1074087)
New patch: tools-lib-traceevent-add-operation-within-arg_num_eval.patch

Thu Jan 18 13:00:00 2018 tonyjAATTsuse.com
- perf probe on offline module is not working (bsc#1041074)
New patch: perf-probe-fix-offline-module-name-missmatch-issue.patch
New patch: perf-probe-fix-module-probe-issue-if-no-dwarf-support.patch

Thu Jan 18 13:00:00 2018 tonyjAATTsuse.com
- Add necessary power pvr support (bsc#1075525)
New patch: perf-pmu-events-support-additional-power8-pvr-in-mapfile.patch
New patch: perf-vendor-events-add-power9-pmu-events.patch
New patch: perf-vendor-events-add-power9-pvrs-to-mapfile.patch
New patch: perf-vendor-events-powerpc-remove-suffix-in-mapfile.patch
New patch: perf-vendor-events-powerpc-update-power9-events.patch
New patch: perf-vendor-events-powerpc-remove-duplicate-events.patch

Wed Dec 6 13:00:00 2017 tonyjAATTsuse.com
- Add perf scripting support for ppc64le (bsc#1056756)
New patch: perf-scripting-python-add-ppc64le-to-audit-uname-list.patch

Fri Jun 23 14:00:00 2017 msuchanekAATTsuse.com
- perf probe: Fails to record samples when probed with function parameter (bsc#1040940)
perf-powerpc-0001-Fix-kprobe-and-kretprobe-handling-with-.patch
perf-powerpc-0002-symbols-Fix-kallsyms-perf-test-on-ppc64le.patch
perf-powerpc-0003-probe-Add-function-to-post-process-kernel-trace.patch
perf-powerpc-0004-probe-ppc64le-Fix-probe-location-when-using-DWA.patch
perf-powerpc-0005-ppc64le-Fix-build-failure-when-libelf-is-not-pr.patch
perf-powerpc-0006-tools-Add-missing-struct-definition-in-probe_ev.patch
- perf uprobe: garbage value recorded when target program compiled without optimization (bsc#1041073)
perf-variable-0001-probe-Fix-to-show-correct-error-message-for-var.patch
perf-variable-0002-probe-Add-helper-function-to-check-if-probe-wit.patch
perf-variable-0003-uprobe-Skip-prologue-if-program-compiled-withou.patch

Thu Jun 15 14:00:00 2017 tonyjAATTsuse.com
- Correct auto search path to debug kernel (bsc#1044591)
new patch: perf-symbols-refactor-vmlinux_path__init-to-ease-path-additions.patch
new patch: perf-symbols-add-the-path-to-vmlinux.debug.patch
- Add ppc64 requires on libebl (bsc#1040770) which is manually loaded by perf
probe/etc (dl_open)

Wed Apr 26 14:00:00 2017 tonyjAATTsuse.com
- Force package rebuild for SP3 picking up new kernel-sources (bsc#1032838)

Tue Jul 12 14:00:00 2016 tonyjAATTsuse.com
- search both .eh_frame and .debug_frame sections for probe location (bsc#986927)
Add patch: perf-probe-fix-to-free-temporal-dwarf_frame.patch
Add patch: perf-probe-fix-to-free-temporal-dwarf_frame-correctly.patch
Add patch: perf-probe-search-both-eh_frame-and-debug_frame-sections-for-probe-location.patch

Mon Jun 13 14:00:00 2016 tonyjAATTsuse.com
- Update SP2 package to build from SP2 v4.4 kernel-source (use latest spec
from Factory to pickup recent build fixes for post SP1 kernel)
- Drop patch: perf-probe-ppc64le-prefer-symbol-table-lookup-over-dwarf.patch (upstream)
- Drop perf-tips (%doc), not in v4.4 kernel

Fri Aug 14 14:00:00 2015 tonyjAATTsuse.com
- Branch package for SP1 to pick up kernel-source changes
(FATE#318982, FATE#318983, FATE#318984)
- Perf probe: prefer symbol table lookup over DWARF for ppc64le
(bnc#936752)
New patch: perf-probe-ppc64le-prefer-symbol-table-lookup-over-dwarf.patch

Fri Jun 27 14:00:00 2014 tonyjAATTsuse.com
- Build for s390[x] without libunwind (bnc#882855)

Thu Feb 20 13:00:00 2014 roAATTsuse.de
- add excludearch for s390/s390x: have no libunwind there

Wed Dec 4 13:00:00 2013 tonyjAATTsuse.com
- Drop patch perl-5.18-nowarn.patch (mainline)

Thu Sep 5 14:00:00 2013 mlsAATTsuse.de
- add libperl_requires, as we link against libperl and thus
need a specific version of perl

Wed Aug 21 14:00:00 2013 tonyjAATTsuse.com
- Resolve build errors
- Drop patch perf-tests-ppc64-fix-compile-errors.patch (mainline)
- Refresh patch perl-5.18-nowarn.patch

Wed Jul 10 14:00:00 2013 tonyjAATTsuse.com
- Add patch \'perf-tests-ppc64-fix-compile-errors.patch\' to resolve
openSUSE:Factory:PowerPC testsuite build errors

Tue Jul 9 14:00:00 2013 tonyjAATTsuse.com
- Add audit-devel, gtk2-devel and libunwind-devel to support optional
functionality.
- Add \'perl-5.18-nowarn.patch\' to squelch build errors from perl.h
- Add perl_requires
- Fix --version output (copy submakefiles from kernel-source)
- Pass SUSE rpm optflags into make as EXTRA_CFLAGS not CFLAGS
- Stop building with V=1, make output easier to parse

Tue Dec 25 13:00:00 2012 tonyjAATTsuse.com
- Add /etc/bash_completion.d/perf to %files (fix build error)

Wed May 16 14:00:00 2012 toganmAATTopensuse.org
- Fix build for factory

* added flex and bison to buildrequires

Thu May 5 14:00:00 2011 idoenmezAATTnovell.com
- Also copy arch/lib to fix compilation on x86-64
- Correctly depend on libdw-devel to fix dwarf support
- Add newt-devel dependency to enable text user interface
- Re-enable as-needed support since it works now

Tue Mar 9 13:00:00 2010 tonyjAATTnovell.com
- 2.6.33 changes
add perf-bench, perf-buildid-list, perf-diff, perf-kmem, perf-probe and
perf-trace-perl
[Still pending, update of libdwarf to version > 20081231]

Thu Nov 5 13:00:00 2009 tonyjAATTnovell.com
- 2.6.32 changes
add perf-sched, perf-timechart and perf-trace man pages

Wed Aug 26 14:00:00 2009 ajAATTsuse.de
- Remove libbfd.patch since it does not apply and use
SUSE_ASNEEDED=0 instead.
- Set flag for asciidoc version 8.

Sun Aug 2 14:00:00 2009 tonyjAATTsuse.de
- Initial checkin of Performance Counters for Linux (PCL) userspace.
This builds tools/perf out of kernel-source package and requires
kernel >= 2.6.31