Merge tag 'perf-core-for-mingo-4.20-20180919' 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:

perf test improvements:

- Add watchpoint entry (Ravi Bangoria)

Build fixes:

- Initialize perf_data_file fd field to fix building the CTF (trace format)
  converter with with gcc 4.8.4 on Ubuntu 14.04 (Jérémie Galarneau)

- Use -Wno-redundant-decls to build with PYTHON=python3 to
  build the python binding, fixing the build in systems such
  as Clear Linux (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)

Hardware tracing improvements:

- Suppress AUX/OVERWRITE records (Alexander Shishkin)

Infrastructure changes:

- Adopt PTR_ERR_OR_ZERO from the kernel and use it in
  the bpf-loader instead of open coded equivalent (Ding Xiang)

- Improve the event ordering code to make it clear and fix
  a bug related to freeing of events when using pipe mode
  from 'record' to 'inject' (Jiri Olsa)

- Some prep work to facilitate per-cpu threads to write
  record data to per-cpu files (Jiri Olsa)

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

tools/include/linux/err.h

@@ -52,4 +52,11 @@ static inline bool __must_check IS_ERR_OR_NULL(__force const void *ptr)
 	return unlikely(!ptr) || IS_ERR_VALUE((unsigned long)ptr);
 }
 
+static inline int __must_check PTR_ERR_OR_ZERO(__force const void *ptr)
+{
+	if (IS_ERR(ptr))
+		return PTR_ERR(ptr);
+	else
+		return 0;
+}
 #endif /* _LINUX_ERR_H */