Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

Pull perf updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "As a first remark I'd like to note that the way to build perf tooling
  has been simplified and sped up, in the future it should be enough for
  you to build perf via:

        cd tools/perf/
        make install

  (ie without the -j option.) The build system will figure out the
  number of CPUs and will do a parallel build+install.

  The various build system inefficiencies and breakages Linus reported
  against the v3.12 pull request should now be resolved - please
  (re-)report any remaining annoyances or bugs.

  Main changes on the perf kernel side:

   * Performance optimizations:
      . perf ring-buffer code optimizations,          by Peter Zijlstra
      . perf ring-buffer code optimizations,          by Oleg Nesterov
      . x86 NMI call-stack processing optimizations,  by Peter Zijlstra
      . perf context-switch optimizations,            by Peter Zijlstra
      . perf sampling speedups,                       by Peter Zijlstra
      . x86 Intel PEBS processing speedups,           by Peter Zijlstra

   * Enhanced hardware support:
      . for Intel Ivy Bridge-EP uncore PMUs,          by Zheng Yan
      . for Haswell transactions,                     by Andi Kleen, Peter Zijlstra

   * Core perf events code enhancements and fixes by Oleg Nesterov:
      . for uprobes, if fork() is called with pending ret-probes
      . for uprobes platform support code

   * New ABI details by Andi Kleen:
      . Report x86 Haswell TSX transaction abort cost as weight

  Main changes on the perf tooling side (some of these tooling changes
  utilize the above kernel side changes):

   * 'perf report/top' enhancements:

      . Convert callchain children list to rbtree, greatly reducing the
        time taken for callchain processing, from Namhyung Kim.

      . Add new COMM infrastructure, further improving histogram
        processing, from Frédéric Weisbecker, one fix from Namhyung Kim.

      . Add /proc/kcore based live-annotation improvements, including
        build-id cache support, multi map 'call' instruction navigation
        fixes, kcore address validation, objdump workarounds.  From
        Adrian Hunter.

      . Show progress on histogram collapsing, that can take a long
        time, from Namhyung Kim.

      . Add --max-stack option to limit callchain stack scan in 'top'
        and 'report', improving callchain processing when reducing the
        stack depth is an option, from Waiman Long.

      . Add new option --ignore-vmlinux for perf top, from Willy
        Tarreau.

   * 'perf trace' enhancements:

      . 'perf trace' now can can use a 'perf probe' dynamic tracepoints
        to hook into the userspace -> kernel pathname copy so that it
        can map fds to pathnames without reading /proc/pid/fd/ symlinks.
        From Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo.

      . Show VFS path associated with fd in live sessions, using a
        'vfs_getname' 'perf probe' created dynamic tracepoint or by
        looking at /proc/pid/fd, from Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo.

      . Add 'trace' beautifiers for lots of syscall arguments, from
        Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo.

      . Implement more compact 'trace' output by suppressing zeroed
        args, from Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo.

      . Show thread COMM by default in 'trace', from Arnaldo Carvalho de
        Melo.

      . Add option to show full timestamp in 'trace', from David Ahern.

      . Add 'record' command in 'trace', to record raw_syscalls:*, from
        David Ahern.

      . Add summary option to dump syscall statistics in 'trace', from
        David Ahern.

      . Improve error messages in 'trace', providing hints about system
        configuration steps needed for using it, from Ramkumar
        Ramachandra.

      . 'perf trace' now emits hints as to why tracing is not possible,
        helping the user to setup the system to allow tracing in the
        desired permission granularity, telling if the problem is due to
        debugfs not being mounted or with not enough permission for
        !root, /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_paranoit value, etc.  From
        Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo.

   * 'perf record' enhancements:

      . Check maximum frequency rate for record/top, emitting better
        error messages, from Jiri Olsa.

      . 'perf record' code cleanups, from David Ahern.

      . Improve write_output error message in 'perf record', from Adrian
        Hunter.

      . Allow specifying B/K/M/G unit to the --mmap-pages arguments,
        from Jiri Olsa.

      . Fix command line callchain attribute tests to handle the new
        -g/--call-chain semantics, from Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo.

   * 'perf kvm' enhancements:

      . Disable live kvm command if timerfd is not supported, from David
        Ahern.

      . Fix detection of non-core features, from David Ahern.

   * 'perf list' enhancements:

      . Add usage to 'perf list', from David Ahern.

      . Show error in 'perf list' if tracepoints not available, from
        Pekka Enberg.

   * 'perf probe' enhancements:

      . Support "$vars" meta argument syntax for local variables,
        allowing asking for all possible variables at a given probe
        point to be collected when it hits, from Masami Hiramatsu.

   * 'perf sched' enhancements:

      . Address the root cause of that 'perf sched' stack initialization
        build slowdown, by programmatically setting a big array after
        moving the global variable back to the stack.  Fix from Adrian
        Hunter.

   * 'perf script' enhancements:

      . Set up output options for in-stream attributes, from Adrian
        Hunter.

      . Print addr by default for BTS in 'perf script', from Adrian
        Juntmer

   * 'perf stat' enhancements:

      . Improved messages when doing profiling in all or a subset of
        CPUs using a workload as the session delimitator, as in:

         'perf stat --cpu 0,2 sleep 10s'

        from Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo.

      . Add units to nanosec-based counters in 'perf stat', from David
        Ahern.

      . Remove bogus info when using 'perf stat' -e cycles/instructions,
        from Ramkumar Ramachandra.

   * 'perf lock' enhancements:

      . 'perf lock' fixes and cleanups, from Davidlohr Bueso.

   * 'perf test' enhancements:

      . Fixup PERF_SAMPLE_TRANSACTION handling in sample synthesizing
        and 'perf test', from Adrian Hunter.

      . Clarify the "sample parsing" test entry, from Arnaldo Carvalho
        de Melo.

      . Consider PERF_SAMPLE_TRANSACTION in the "sample parsing" test,
        from Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo.

      . Memory leak fixes in 'perf test', from Felipe Pena.

   * 'perf bench' enhancements:

      . Change the procps visible command-name of invididual benchmark
        tests plus cleanups, from Ingo Molnar.

   * Generic perf tooling infrastructure/plumbing changes:

      . Separating data file properties from session, code
        reorganization from Jiri Olsa.

      . Fix version when building out of tree, as when using one of
        these:

        $ make help | grep perf
          perf-tar-src-pkg    - Build perf-3.12.0.tar source tarball
          perf-targz-src-pkg  - Build perf-3.12.0.tar.gz source tarball
          perf-tarbz2-src-pkg - Build perf-3.12.0.tar.bz2 source tarball
          perf-tarxz-src-pkg  - Build perf-3.12.0.tar.xz source tarball
        $

        from David Ahern.

      . Enhance option parse error message, showing just the help lines
        of the options affected, from Namhyung Kim.

      . libtraceevent updates from upstream trace-cmd repo, from Steven
        Rostedt.

      . Always use perf_evsel__set_sample_bit to set sample_type, from
        Adrian Hunter.

      . Memory and mmap leak fixes from Chenggang Qin.

      . Assorted build fixes for from David Ahern and Jiri Olsa.

      . Speed up and prettify the build system, from Ingo Molnar.

      . Implement addr2line directly using libbfd, from Roberto Vitillo.

      . Separate the GTK support in a separate libperf-gtk.so DSO, that
        is only loaded when --gtk is specified, from Namhyung Kim.

      . perf bash completion fixes and improvements from Ramkumar
        Ramachandra.

      . Support for Openembedded/Yocto -dbg packages, from Ricardo
        Ribalda Delgado.

  And lots and lots of other fixes and code reorganizations that did not
  make it into the list, see the shortlog, diffstat and the Git log for
  details!"

* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (300 commits)
  uprobes: Fix the memory out of bound overwrite in copy_insn()
  uprobes: Fix the wrong usage of current->utask in uprobe_copy_process()
  perf tools: Remove unneeded include
  perf record: Remove post_processing_offset variable
  perf record: Remove advance_output function
  perf record: Refactor feature handling into a separate function
  perf trace: Don't relookup fields by name in each sample
  perf tools: Fix version when building out of tree
  perf evsel: Ditch evsel->handler.data field
  uprobes: Export write_opcode() as uprobe_write_opcode()
  uprobes: Introduce arch_uprobe->ixol
  uprobes: Kill module_init() and module_exit()
  uprobes: Move function declarations out of arch
  perf/x86/intel: Add Ivy Bridge-EP uncore IRP box support
  perf/x86/intel/uncore: Add filter support for IvyBridge-EP QPI boxes
  perf: Factor out strncpy() in perf_event_mmap_event()
  tools/perf: Add required memory barriers
  perf: Fix arch_perf_out_copy_user default
  perf: Update a stale comment
  perf: Optimize perf_output_begin() -- address calculation
  ...

30 files changed, 756 insertions, 391 deletions

diff --git a/tools/perf/config/Makefile b/tools/perf/config/Makefile
index 5f6f9b3271b..58b2d37ae23 100644
--- a/tools/perf/config/Makefile
+++ b/tools/perf/config/Makefile
@@ -23,15 +23,17 @@ ifeq ($(ARCH),x86_64)
   endif
   ifeq (${IS_X86_64}, 1)
     RAW_ARCH := x86_64
-    CFLAGS += -DARCH_X86_64
+    CFLAGS += -DHAVE_ARCH_X86_64_SUPPORT
     ARCH_INCLUDE = ../../arch/x86/lib/memcpy_64.S ../../arch/x86/lib/memset_64.S
+    LIBUNWIND_LIBS = -lunwind -lunwind-x86_64
+  else
+    LIBUNWIND_LIBS = -lunwind -lunwind-x86
   endif
   NO_PERF_REGS := 0
-  LIBUNWIND_LIBS = -lunwind -lunwind-x86_64
 endif
 
 ifeq ($(NO_PERF_REGS),0)
-  CFLAGS += -DHAVE_PERF_REGS
+  CFLAGS += -DHAVE_PERF_REGS_SUPPORT
 endif
 
 ifeq ($(src-perf),)
@@ -51,7 +53,6 @@ LIB_INCLUDE := $(srctree)/tools/lib/
 # include ARCH specific config
 -include $(src-perf)/arch/$(ARCH)/Makefile
 
-include $(src-perf)/config/feature-tests.mak
 include $(src-perf)/config/utilities.mak
 
 ifeq ($(call get-executable,$(FLEX)),)
@@ -67,10 +68,11 @@ ifneq ($(WERROR),0)
   CFLAGS += -Werror
 endif
 
-ifeq ("$(origin DEBUG)", "command line")
-  PERF_DEBUG = $(DEBUG)
+ifndef DEBUG
+  DEBUG := 0
 endif
-ifndef PERF_DEBUG
+
+ifeq ($(DEBUG),0)
   CFLAGS += -O6
 endif
 
@@ -89,20 +91,125 @@ CFLAGS += -std=gnu99
 
 EXTLIBS = -lelf -lpthread -lrt -lm -ldl
 
-ifeq ($(call try-cc,$(SOURCE_HELLO),$(CFLAGS) -Werror -fstack-protector-all,-fstack-protector-all),y)
-  CFLAGS += -fstack-protector-all
+ifneq ($(OUTPUT),)
+  OUTPUT_FEATURES = $(OUTPUT)config/feature-checks/
+  $(shell mkdir -p $(OUTPUT_FEATURES))
 endif
 
-ifeq ($(call try-cc,$(SOURCE_HELLO),$(CFLAGS) -Werror -Wstack-protector,-Wstack-protector),y)
-  CFLAGS += -Wstack-protector
+feature_check = $(eval $(feature_check_code))
+define feature_check_code
+  feature-$(1) := $(shell $(MAKE) OUTPUT=$(OUTPUT_FEATURES) CFLAGS="$(EXTRA_CFLAGS)" LDFLAGS="$(LDFLAGS)" LIBUNWIND_LIBS="$(LIBUNWIND_LIBS)" -C config/feature-checks test-$1 >/dev/null 2>/dev/null && echo 1 || echo 0)
+endef
+
+feature_set = $(eval $(feature_set_code))
+define feature_set_code
+  feature-$(1) := 1
+endef
+
+#
+# Build the feature check binaries in parallel, ignore errors, ignore return value and suppress output:
+#
+
+#
+# Note that this is not a complete list of all feature tests, just
+# those that are typically built on a fully configured system.
+#
+# [ Feature tests not mentioned here have to be built explicitly in
+#   the rule that uses them - an example for that is the 'bionic'
+#   feature check. ]
+#
+CORE_FEATURE_TESTS =			\
+	backtrace			\
+	dwarf				\
+	fortify-source			\
+	glibc				\
+	gtk2				\
+	gtk2-infobar			\
+	libaudit			\
+	libbfd				\
+	libelf				\
+	libelf-getphdrnum		\
+	libelf-mmap			\
+	libnuma				\
+	libperl				\
+	libpython			\
+	libpython-version		\
+	libslang			\
+	libunwind			\
+	on-exit				\
+	stackprotector			\
+	stackprotector-all
+
+#
+# So here we detect whether test-all was rebuilt, to be able
+# to skip the print-out of the long features list if the file
+# existed before and after it was built:
+#
+ifeq ($(wildcard $(OUTPUT)config/feature-checks/test-all),)
+  test-all-failed := 1
+else
+  test-all-failed := 0
+endif
+
+#
+# Special fast-path for the 'all features are available' case:
+#
+$(call feature_check,all,$(MSG))
+
+#
+# Just in case the build freshly failed, make sure we print the
+# feature matrix:
+#
+ifeq ($(feature-all), 0)
+  test-all-failed := 1
 endif
 
-ifeq ($(call try-cc,$(SOURCE_HELLO),$(CFLAGS) -Werror -Wvolatile-register-var,-Wvolatile-register-var),y)
-  CFLAGS += -Wvolatile-register-var
+ifeq ($(test-all-failed),1)
+  $(info )
+  $(info Auto-detecting system features:)
 endif
 
-ifndef PERF_DEBUG
-  ifeq ($(call try-cc,$(SOURCE_HELLO),$(CFLAGS) -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2),y)
+ifeq ($(feature-all), 1)
+  #
+  # test-all.c passed - just set all the core feature flags to 1:
+  #
+  $(foreach feat,$(CORE_FEATURE_TESTS),$(call feature_set,$(feat)))
+else
+  $(shell $(MAKE) OUTPUT=$(OUTPUT_FEATURES) CFLAGS="$(EXTRA_CFLAGS)" LDFLAGS=$(LDFLAGS) -i -j -C config/feature-checks $(CORE_FEATURE_TESTS) >/dev/null 2>&1)
+  $(foreach feat,$(CORE_FEATURE_TESTS),$(call feature_check,$(feat)))
+endif
+
+#
+# Print the result of the feature test:
+#
+feature_print = $(eval $(feature_print_code)) $(info $(MSG))
+
+define feature_print_code
+  ifeq ($(feature-$(1)), 1)
+    MSG = $(shell printf '...%30s: [ \033[32mon\033[m  ]' $(1))
+  else
+    MSG = $(shell printf '...%30s: [ \033[31mOFF\033[m ]' $(1))
+  endif
+endef
+
+#
+# Only print out our features if we rebuilt the testcases or if a test failed:
+#
+ifeq ($(test-all-failed), 1)
+  $(foreach feat,$(CORE_FEATURE_TESTS),$(call feature_print,$(feat)))
+  $(info )
+endif
+
+ifeq ($(feature-stackprotector-all), 1)
+  CFLAGS += -fstack-protector-all
+endif
+
+ifeq ($(feature-stackprotector), 1)
+  CFLAGS += -Wstack-protector
+endif
+
+ifeq ($(DEBUG),0)
+  ifeq ($(feature-fortify-source), 1)
     CFLAGS += -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2
   endif
 endif
@@ -128,84 +235,74 @@ CFLAGS += -I$(LIB_INCLUDE)
 CFLAGS += -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_GNU_SOURCE
 
 ifndef NO_BIONIC
-ifeq ($(call try-cc,$(SOURCE_BIONIC),$(CFLAGS),bionic),y)
-  BIONIC := 1
-  EXTLIBS := $(filter-out -lrt,$(EXTLIBS))
-  EXTLIBS := $(filter-out -lpthread,$(EXTLIBS))
+  $(call feature_check,bionic)
+  ifeq ($(feature-bionic), 1)
+    BIONIC := 1
+    EXTLIBS := $(filter-out -lrt,$(EXTLIBS))
+    EXTLIBS := $(filter-out -lpthread,$(EXTLIBS))
+  endif
 endif
-endif # NO_BIONIC
 
 ifdef NO_LIBELF
   NO_DWARF := 1
   NO_DEMANGLE := 1
   NO_LIBUNWIND := 1
 else
-FLAGS_LIBELF=$(CFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS) $(EXTLIBS)
-ifneq ($(call try-cc,$(SOURCE_LIBELF),$(FLAGS_LIBELF),libelf),y)
-  FLAGS_GLIBC=$(CFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS)
-  ifeq ($(call try-cc,$(SOURCE_GLIBC),$(FLAGS_GLIBC),glibc),y)
-    LIBC_SUPPORT := 1
-  endif
-  ifeq ($(BIONIC),1)
-    LIBC_SUPPORT := 1
-  endif
-  ifeq ($(LIBC_SUPPORT),1)
-    msg := $(warning No libelf found, disables 'probe' tool, please install elfutils-libelf-devel/libelf-dev);
+  ifeq ($(feature-libelf), 0)
+    ifeq ($(feature-glibc), 1)
+      LIBC_SUPPORT := 1
+    endif
+    ifeq ($(BIONIC),1)
+      LIBC_SUPPORT := 1
+    endif
+    ifeq ($(LIBC_SUPPORT),1)
+      msg := $(warning No libelf found, disables 'probe' tool, please install elfutils-libelf-devel/libelf-dev);
 
-    NO_LIBELF := 1
-    NO_DWARF := 1
-    NO_DEMANGLE := 1
+      NO_LIBELF := 1
+      NO_DWARF := 1
+      NO_DEMANGLE := 1
+    else
+      msg := $(error No gnu/libc-version.h found, please install glibc-dev[el]/glibc-static);
+    endif
   else
-    msg := $(error No gnu/libc-version.h found, please install glibc-dev[el]/glibc-static);
-  endif
-else
-  # for linking with debug library, run like:
-  # make DEBUG=1 LIBDW_DIR=/opt/libdw/
-  ifdef LIBDW_DIR
-    LIBDW_CFLAGS  := -I$(LIBDW_DIR)/include
-    LIBDW_LDFLAGS := -L$(LIBDW_DIR)/lib
-  endif
+    # for linking with debug library, run like:
+    # make DEBUG=1 LIBDW_DIR=/opt/libdw/
+    ifdef LIBDW_DIR
+      LIBDW_CFLAGS  := -I$(LIBDW_DIR)/include
+      LIBDW_LDFLAGS := -L$(LIBDW_DIR)/lib
+    endif
 
-  FLAGS_DWARF=$(CFLAGS) $(LIBDW_CFLAGS) -ldw -lz -lelf $(LIBDW_LDFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS) $(EXTLIBS)
-  ifneq ($(call try-cc,$(SOURCE_DWARF),$(FLAGS_DWARF),libdw),y)
-    msg := $(warning No libdw.h found or old libdw.h found or elfutils is older than 0.138, disables dwarf support. Please install new elfutils-devel/libdw-dev);
-    NO_DWARF := 1
-  endif # Dwarf support
-endif # SOURCE_LIBELF
+    ifneq ($(feature-dwarf), 1)
+      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
+    endif # Dwarf support
+  endif # libelf support
 endif # NO_LIBELF
 
 ifndef NO_LIBELF
-CFLAGS += -DLIBELF_SUPPORT
-FLAGS_LIBELF=$(CFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS) $(EXTLIBS)
-ifeq ($(call try-cc,$(SOURCE_ELF_MMAP),$(FLAGS_LIBELF),-DLIBELF_MMAP),y)
-  CFLAGS += -DLIBELF_MMAP
-endif
-ifeq ($(call try-cc,$(SOURCE_ELF_GETPHDRNUM),$(FLAGS_LIBELF),-DHAVE_ELF_GETPHDRNUM),y)
-  CFLAGS += -DHAVE_ELF_GETPHDRNUM
-endif
+  CFLAGS += -DHAVE_LIBELF_SUPPORT
 
-# include ARCH specific config
--include $(src-perf)/arch/$(ARCH)/Makefile
+  ifeq ($(feature-libelf-mmap), 1)
+    CFLAGS += -DHAVE_LIBELF_MMAP_SUPPORT
+  endif
 
-ifndef NO_DWARF
-ifeq ($(origin PERF_HAVE_DWARF_REGS), undefined)
-  msg := $(warning DWARF register mappings have not been defined for architecture $(ARCH), DWARF support disabled);
-  NO_DWARF := 1
-else
-  CFLAGS += -DDWARF_SUPPORT $(LIBDW_CFLAGS)
-  LDFLAGS += $(LIBDW_LDFLAGS)
-  EXTLIBS += -lelf -ldw
-endif # PERF_HAVE_DWARF_REGS
-endif # NO_DWARF
+  ifeq ($(feature-libelf-getphdrnum), 1)
+    CFLAGS += -DHAVE_ELF_GETPHDRNUM_SUPPORT
+  endif
 
-endif # NO_LIBELF
+  # include ARCH specific config
+  -include $(src-perf)/arch/$(ARCH)/Makefile
 
-ifndef NO_LIBELF
-CFLAGS += -DLIBELF_SUPPORT
-FLAGS_LIBELF=$(CFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS) $(EXTLIBS)
-ifeq ($(call try-cc,$(SOURCE_ELF_MMAP),$(FLAGS_LIBELF),-DLIBELF_MMAP),y)
-  CFLAGS += -DLIBELF_MMAP
-endif # try-cc
+  ifndef NO_DWARF
+    ifeq ($(origin PERF_HAVE_DWARF_REGS), undefined)
+      msg := $(warning DWARF register mappings have not been defined for architecture $(ARCH), DWARF support disabled);
+      NO_DWARF := 1
+    else
+      CFLAGS += -DHAVE_DWARF_SUPPORT $(LIBDW_CFLAGS)
+      LDFLAGS += $(LIBDW_LDFLAGS)
+      EXTLIBS += -lelf -ldw
+    endif # PERF_HAVE_DWARF_REGS
+  endif # NO_DWARF
 endif # NO_LIBELF
 
 # There's only x86 (both 32 and 64) support for CFI unwind so far
@@ -214,34 +311,35 @@ ifneq ($(ARCH),x86)
 endif
 
 ifndef NO_LIBUNWIND
-# for linking with debug library, run like:
-# make DEBUG=1 LIBUNWIND_DIR=/opt/libunwind/
-ifdef LIBUNWIND_DIR
-  LIBUNWIND_CFLAGS  := -I$(LIBUNWIND_DIR)/include
-  LIBUNWIND_LDFLAGS := -L$(LIBUNWIND_DIR)/lib
-endif
+  #
+  # For linking with debug library, run like:
+  #
+  #   make DEBUG=1 LIBUNWIND_DIR=/opt/libunwind/
+  #
+  ifdef LIBUNWIND_DIR
+    LIBUNWIND_CFLAGS  := -I$(LIBUNWIND_DIR)/include
+    LIBUNWIND_LDFLAGS := -L$(LIBUNWIND_DIR)/lib
+  endif
 
-FLAGS_UNWIND=$(LIBUNWIND_CFLAGS) $(CFLAGS) $(LIBUNWIND_LDFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS) $(EXTLIBS) $(LIBUNWIND_LIBS)
-ifneq ($(call try-cc,$(SOURCE_LIBUNWIND),$(FLAGS_UNWIND),libunwind),y)
-  msg := $(warning No libunwind found, disabling post unwind support. Please install libunwind-dev[el] >= 0.99);
-  NO_LIBUNWIND := 1
-endif # Libunwind support
-endif # NO_LIBUNWIND
+  ifneq ($(feature-libunwind), 1)
+    msg := $(warning No libunwind found, disabling post unwind support. Please install libunwind-dev[el] >= 0.99);
+    NO_LIBUNWIND := 1
+  endif
+endif
 
 ifndef NO_LIBUNWIND
-  CFLAGS += -DLIBUNWIND_SUPPORT
+  CFLAGS += -DHAVE_LIBUNWIND_SUPPORT
   EXTLIBS += $(LIBUNWIND_LIBS)
   CFLAGS += $(LIBUNWIND_CFLAGS)
   LDFLAGS += $(LIBUNWIND_LDFLAGS)
-endif # NO_LIBUNWIND
+endif
 
 ifndef NO_LIBAUDIT
-  FLAGS_LIBAUDIT = $(CFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS) -laudit
-  ifneq ($(call try-cc,$(SOURCE_LIBAUDIT),$(FLAGS_LIBAUDIT),libaudit),y)
+  ifneq ($(feature-libaudit), 1)
     msg := $(warning No libaudit.h found, disables 'trace' tool, please install audit-libs-devel or libaudit-dev);
     NO_LIBAUDIT := 1
   else
-    CFLAGS += -DLIBAUDIT_SUPPORT
+    CFLAGS += -DHAVE_LIBAUDIT_SUPPORT
     EXTLIBS += -laudit
   endif
 endif
@@ -251,30 +349,30 @@ ifdef NO_NEWT
 endif
 
 ifndef NO_SLANG
-  FLAGS_SLANG=$(CFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS) $(EXTLIBS) -I/usr/include/slang -lslang
-  ifneq ($(call try-cc,$(SOURCE_SLANG),$(FLAGS_SLANG),libslang),y)
+  ifneq ($(feature-libslang), 1)
     msg := $(warning slang not found, disables TUI support. Please install slang-devel or libslang-dev);
     NO_SLANG := 1
   else
     # Fedora has /usr/include/slang/slang.h, but ubuntu /usr/include/slang.h
     CFLAGS += -I/usr/include/slang
-    CFLAGS += -DSLANG_SUPPORT
+    CFLAGS += -DHAVE_SLANG_SUPPORT
     EXTLIBS += -lslang
   endif
 endif
 
 ifndef NO_GTK2
   FLAGS_GTK2=$(CFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS) $(EXTLIBS) $(shell pkg-config --libs --cflags gtk+-2.0 2>/dev/null)
-  ifneq ($(call try-cc,$(SOURCE_GTK2),$(FLAGS_GTK2),gtk2),y)
+  ifneq ($(feature-gtk2), 1)
     msg := $(warning GTK2 not found, disables GTK2 support. Please install gtk2-devel or libgtk2.0-dev);
     NO_GTK2 := 1
   else
-    ifeq ($(call try-cc,$(SOURCE_GTK2_INFOBAR),$(FLAGS_GTK2),-DHAVE_GTK_INFO_BAR),y)
-      CFLAGS += -DHAVE_GTK_INFO_BAR
+    ifeq ($(feature-gtk2-infobar), 1)
+      GTK_CFLAGS := -DHAVE_GTK_INFO_BAR_SUPPORT
     endif
-    CFLAGS += -DGTK2_SUPPORT
-    CFLAGS += $(shell pkg-config --cflags gtk+-2.0 2>/dev/null)
-    EXTLIBS += $(shell pkg-config --libs gtk+-2.0 2>/dev/null)
+    CFLAGS += -DHAVE_GTK2_SUPPORT
+    GTK_CFLAGS += $(shell pkg-config --cflags gtk+-2.0 2>/dev/null)
+    GTK_LIBS := $(shell pkg-config --libs gtk+-2.0 2>/dev/null)
+    EXTLIBS += -ldl
   endif
 endif
 
@@ -290,7 +388,7 @@ else
   PERL_EMBED_CCOPTS = `perl -MExtUtils::Embed -e ccopts 2>/dev/null`
   FLAGS_PERL_EMBED=$(PERL_EMBED_CCOPTS) $(PERL_EMBED_LDOPTS)
 
-  ifneq ($(call try-cc,$(SOURCE_PERL_EMBED),$(FLAGS_PERL_EMBED),perl),y)
+  ifneq ($(feature-libperl), 1)
     CFLAGS += -DNO_LIBPERL
     NO_LIBPERL := 1
   else
@@ -299,6 +397,13 @@ else
   endif
 endif
 
+$(call feature_check,timerfd)
+ifeq ($(feature-timerfd), 1)
+  CFLAGS += -DHAVE_TIMERFD_SUPPORT
+else
+  msg := $(warning No timerfd support. Disables 'perf kvm stat live');
+endif
+
 disable-python = $(eval $(disable-python_code))
 define disable-python_code
   CFLAGS += -DNO_LIBPYTHON
@@ -335,11 +440,11 @@ else
       PYTHON_EMBED_CCOPTS := $(shell $(PYTHON_CONFIG_SQ) --cflags 2>/dev/null)
       FLAGS_PYTHON_EMBED := $(PYTHON_EMBED_CCOPTS) $(PYTHON_EMBED_LDOPTS)
 
-      ifneq ($(call try-cc,$(SOURCE_PYTHON_EMBED),$(FLAGS_PYTHON_EMBED),python),y)
+      ifneq ($(feature-libpython), 1)
         $(call disable-python,Python.h (for Python 2.x))
       else
 
-        ifneq ($(call try-cc,$(SOURCE_PYTHON_VERSION),$(FLAGS_PYTHON_EMBED),python version),y)
+        ifneq ($(feature-libpython-version), 1)
           $(warning Python 3 is not yet supported; please set)
           $(warning PYTHON and/or PYTHON_CONFIG appropriately.)
           $(warning If you also have Python 2 installed, then)
@@ -362,33 +467,30 @@ else
   endif
 endif
 
+ifeq ($(feature-libbfd), 1)
+  EXTLIBS += -lbfd
+endif
+
 ifdef NO_DEMANGLE
   CFLAGS += -DNO_DEMANGLE
 else
-  ifdef HAVE_CPLUS_DEMANGLE
+  ifdef HAVE_CPLUS_DEMANGLE_SUPPORT
     EXTLIBS += -liberty
-    CFLAGS += -DHAVE_CPLUS_DEMANGLE
+    CFLAGS += -DHAVE_CPLUS_DEMANGLE_SUPPORT
   else
-    FLAGS_BFD=$(CFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS) $(EXTLIBS) -DPACKAGE='perf' -lbfd
-    has_bfd := $(call try-cc,$(SOURCE_BFD),$(FLAGS_BFD),libbfd)
-    ifeq ($(has_bfd),y)
-      EXTLIBS += -lbfd
-    else
-      FLAGS_BFD_IBERTY=$(FLAGS_BFD) -liberty
-      has_bfd_iberty := $(call try-cc,$(SOURCE_BFD),$(FLAGS_BFD_IBERTY),liberty)
-      ifeq ($(has_bfd_iberty),y)
+    ifneq ($(feature-libbfd), 1)
+      $(call feature_check,liberty)
+      ifeq ($(feature-liberty), 1)
         EXTLIBS += -lbfd -liberty
       else
-        FLAGS_BFD_IBERTY_Z=$(FLAGS_BFD_IBERTY) -lz
-        has_bfd_iberty_z := $(call try-cc,$(SOURCE_BFD),$(FLAGS_BFD_IBERTY_Z),libz)
-        ifeq ($(has_bfd_iberty_z),y)
+        $(call feature_check,liberty-z)
+        ifeq ($(feature-liberty-z), 1)
           EXTLIBS += -lbfd -liberty -lz
         else
-          FLAGS_CPLUS_DEMANGLE=$(CFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS) $(EXTLIBS) -liberty
-          has_cplus_demangle := $(call try-cc,$(SOURCE_CPLUS_DEMANGLE),$(FLAGS_CPLUS_DEMANGLE),demangle)
-          ifeq ($(has_cplus_demangle),y)
+          $(call feature_check,cplus-demangle)
+          ifeq ($(feature-cplus-demangle), 1)
             EXTLIBS += -liberty
-            CFLAGS += -DHAVE_CPLUS_DEMANGLE
+            CFLAGS += -DHAVE_CPLUS_DEMANGLE_SUPPORT
           else
             msg := $(warning No bfd.h/libbfd found, install binutils-dev[el]/zlib-static to gain symbol demangling)
             CFLAGS += -DNO_DEMANGLE
@@ -399,31 +501,28 @@ else
   endif
 endif
 
-ifndef NO_STRLCPY
-  ifeq ($(call try-cc,$(SOURCE_STRLCPY),,-DHAVE_STRLCPY),y)
-    CFLAGS += -DHAVE_STRLCPY
-  endif
+ifneq ($(filter -lbfd,$(EXTLIBS)),)
+  CFLAGS += -DHAVE_LIBBFD_SUPPORT
 endif
 
 ifndef NO_ON_EXIT
-  ifeq ($(call try-cc,$(SOURCE_ON_EXIT),,-DHAVE_ON_EXIT),y)
-    CFLAGS += -DHAVE_ON_EXIT
+  ifeq ($(feature-on-exit), 1)
+    CFLAGS += -DHAVE_ON_EXIT_SUPPORT
   endif
 endif
 
 ifndef NO_BACKTRACE
-  ifeq ($(call try-cc,$(SOURCE_BACKTRACE),,-DBACKTRACE_SUPPORT),y)
-    CFLAGS += -DBACKTRACE_SUPPORT
+  ifeq ($(feature-backtrace), 1)
+    CFLAGS += -DHAVE_BACKTRACE_SUPPORT
   endif
 endif
 
 ifndef NO_LIBNUMA
-  FLAGS_LIBNUMA = $(CFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS) -lnuma
-  ifneq ($(call try-cc,$(SOURCE_LIBNUMA),$(FLAGS_LIBNUMA),libnuma),y)
+  ifeq ($(feature-libnuma), 0)
     msg := $(warning No numa.h found, disables 'perf bench numa mem' benchmark, please install numa-libs-devel or libnuma-dev);
     NO_LIBNUMA := 1
   else
-    CFLAGS += -DLIBNUMA_SUPPORT
+    CFLAGS += -DHAVE_LIBNUMA_SUPPORT
     EXTLIBS += -lnuma
   endif
 endif
@@ -459,7 +558,12 @@ else
 sysconfdir = $(prefix)/etc
 ETC_PERFCONFIG = etc/perfconfig
 endif
+ifeq ($(IS_X86_64),1)
+lib = lib64
+else
 lib = lib
+endif
+libdir = $(prefix)/$(lib)
 
 # Shell quote (do not use $(call) to accommodate ancient setups);
 ETC_PERFCONFIG_SQ = $(subst ','\'',$(ETC_PERFCONFIG))
@@ -472,6 +576,7 @@ template_dir_SQ = $(subst ','\'',$(template_dir))
 htmldir_SQ = $(subst ','\'',$(htmldir))
 prefix_SQ = $(subst ','\'',$(prefix))
 sysconfdir_SQ = $(subst ','\'',$(sysconfdir))
+libdir_SQ = $(subst ','\'',$(libdir))
 
 ifneq ($(filter /%,$(firstword $(perfexecdir))),)
 perfexec_instdir = $(perfexecdir)
diff --git a/tools/perf/config/feature-checks/Makefile b/tools/perf/config/feature-checks/Makefile
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..c803f17fb98
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/perf/config/feature-checks/Makefile
@@ -0,0 +1,148 @@
+
+FILES=					\
+	test-all			\
+	test-backtrace			\
+	test-bionic			\
+	test-dwarf			\
+	test-fortify-source		\
+	test-glibc			\
+	test-gtk2			\
+	test-gtk2-infobar		\
+	test-hello			\
+	test-libaudit			\
+	test-libbfd			\
+	test-liberty			\
+	test-liberty-z			\
+	test-cplus-demangle		\
+	test-libelf			\
+	test-libelf-getphdrnum		\
+	test-libelf-mmap		\
+	test-libnuma			\
+	test-libperl			\
+	test-libpython			\
+	test-libpython-version		\
+	test-libslang			\
+	test-libunwind			\
+	test-on-exit			\
+	test-stackprotector-all		\
+	test-stackprotector		\
+	test-timerfd
+
+CC := $(CC) -MD
+
+all: $(FILES)
+
+BUILD = $(CC) $(CFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS) -o $(OUTPUT)$@ $@.c
+
+###############################
+
+test-all:
+	$(BUILD) -Werror -fstack-protector -fstack-protector-all -O2 -Werror -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -ldw -lelf -lnuma $(LIBUNWIND_LIBS) -lelf -laudit -I/usr/include/slang -lslang $(shell pkg-config --libs --cflags gtk+-2.0 2>/dev/null) $(FLAGS_PERL_EMBED) $(FLAGS_PYTHON_EMBED) -DPACKAGE='"perf"' -lbfd -ldl
+
+test-hello:
+	$(BUILD)
+
+test-stackprotector-all:
+	$(BUILD) -Werror -fstack-protector-all
+
+test-stackprotector:
+	$(BUILD) -Werror -fstack-protector -Wstack-protector
+
+test-fortify-source:
+	$(BUILD) -O2 -Werror -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2
+
+test-bionic:
+	$(BUILD)
+
+test-libelf:
+	$(BUILD) -lelf
+
+test-glibc:
+	$(BUILD)
+
+test-dwarf:
+	$(BUILD) -ldw
+
+test-libelf-mmap:
+	$(BUILD) -lelf
+
+test-libelf-getphdrnum:
+	$(BUILD) -lelf
+
+test-libnuma:
+	$(BUILD) -lnuma
+
+test-libunwind:
+	$(BUILD) $(LIBUNWIND_LIBS) -lelf
+
+test-libaudit:
+	$(BUILD) -laudit
+
+test-libslang:
+	$(BUILD) -I/usr/include/slang -lslang
+
+test-gtk2:
+	$(BUILD) $(shell pkg-config --libs --cflags gtk+-2.0 2>/dev/null)
+
+test-gtk2-infobar:
+	$(BUILD) $(shell pkg-config --libs --cflags gtk+-2.0 2>/dev/null)
+
+grep-libs  = $(filter -l%,$(1))
+strip-libs = $(filter-out -l%,$(1))
+
+PERL_EMBED_LDOPTS = $(shell perl -MExtUtils::Embed -e ldopts 2>/dev/null)
+PERL_EMBED_LDFLAGS = $(call strip-libs,$(PERL_EMBED_LDOPTS))
+PERL_EMBED_LIBADD = $(call grep-libs,$(PERL_EMBED_LDOPTS))
+PERL_EMBED_CCOPTS = `perl -MExtUtils::Embed -e ccopts 2>/dev/null`
+FLAGS_PERL_EMBED=$(PERL_EMBED_CCOPTS) $(PERL_EMBED_LDOPTS)
+
+test-libperl:
+	$(BUILD) $(FLAGS_PERL_EMBED)
+
+override PYTHON := python
+override PYTHON_CONFIG := python-config
+
+escape-for-shell-sq =  $(subst ','\'',$(1))
+shell-sq = '$(escape-for-shell-sq)'
+
+PYTHON_CONFIG_SQ = $(call shell-sq,$(PYTHON_CONFIG))
+
+PYTHON_EMBED_LDOPTS = $(shell $(PYTHON_CONFIG_SQ) --ldflags 2>/dev/null)
+PYTHON_EMBED_LDFLAGS = $(call strip-libs,$(PYTHON_EMBED_LDOPTS))
+PYTHON_EMBED_LIBADD = $(call grep-libs,$(PYTHON_EMBED_LDOPTS))
+PYTHON_EMBED_CCOPTS = $(shell $(PYTHON_CONFIG_SQ) --cflags 2>/dev/null)
+FLAGS_PYTHON_EMBED = $(PYTHON_EMBED_CCOPTS) $(PYTHON_EMBED_LDOPTS)
+
+test-libpython:
+	$(BUILD) $(FLAGS_PYTHON_EMBED)
+
+test-libpython-version:
+	$(BUILD) $(FLAGS_PYTHON_EMBED)
+
+test-libbfd:
+	$(BUILD) -DPACKAGE='"perf"' -lbfd -ldl
+
+test-liberty:
+	$(CC) -o $(OUTPUT)$@ test-libbfd.c -DPACKAGE='"perf"' -lbfd -ldl -liberty
+
+test-liberty-z:
+	$(CC) -o $(OUTPUT)$@ test-libbfd.c -DPACKAGE='"perf"' -lbfd -ldl -liberty -lz
+
+test-cplus-demangle:
+	$(BUILD) -liberty
+
+test-on-exit:
+	$(BUILD)
+
+test-backtrace:
+	$(BUILD)
+
+test-timerfd:
+	$(BUILD)
+
+-include *.d
+
+###############################
+
+clean:
+	rm -f $(FILES) *.d
diff --git a/tools/perf/config/feature-checks/test-all.c b/tools/perf/config/feature-checks/test-all.c
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..59e7a705e14
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/perf/config/feature-checks/test-all.c
@@ -0,0 +1,111 @@
+/*
+ * test-all.c: Try to build all the main testcases at once.
+ *
+ * A well-configured system will have all the prereqs installed, so we can speed
+ * up auto-detection on such systems.
+ */
+
+/*
+ * Quirk: Python and Perl headers cannot be in arbitrary places, so keep
+ * these 3 testcases at the top:
+ */
+#define main main_test_libpython
+# include "test-libpython.c"
+#undef main
+
+#define main main_test_libpython_version
+# include "test-libpython-version.c"
+#undef main
+
+#define main main_test_libperl
+# include "test-libperl.c"
+#undef main
+
+#define main main_test_hello
+# include "test-hello.c"
+#undef main
+
+#define main main_test_libelf
+# include "test-libelf.c"
+#undef main
+
+#define main main_test_libelf_mmap
+# include "test-libelf-mmap.c"
+#undef main
+
+#define main main_test_glibc
+# include "test-glibc.c"
+#undef main
+
+#define main main_test_dwarf
+# include "test-dwarf.c"
+#undef main
+
+#define main main_test_libelf_getphdrnum
+# include "test-libelf-getphdrnum.c"
+#undef main
+
+#define main main_test_libunwind
+# include "test-libunwind.c"
+#undef main
+
+#define main main_test_libaudit
+# include "test-libaudit.c"
+#undef main
+
+#define main main_test_libslang
+# include "test-libslang.c"
+#undef main
+
+#define main main_test_gtk2
+# include "test-gtk2.c"
+#undef main
+
+#define main main_test_gtk2_infobar
+# include "test-gtk2-infobar.c"
+#undef main
+
+#define main main_test_libbfd
+# include "test-libbfd.c"
+#undef main
+
+#define main main_test_on_exit
+# include "test-on-exit.c"
+#undef main
+
+#define main main_test_backtrace
+# include "test-backtrace.c"
+#undef main
+
+#define main main_test_libnuma
+# include "test-libnuma.c"
+#undef main
+
+#define main main_test_timerfd
+# include "test-timerfd.c"
+#undef main
+
+int main(int argc, char *argv[])
+{
+	main_test_libpython();
+	main_test_libpython_version();
+	main_test_libperl();
+	main_test_hello();
+	main_test_libelf();
+	main_test_libelf_mmap();
+	main_test_glibc();
+	main_test_dwarf();
+	main_test_libelf_getphdrnum();
+	main_test_libunwind();
+	main_test_libaudit();
+	main_test_libslang();
+	main_test_gtk2(argc, argv);
+	main_test_gtk2_infobar(argc, argv);
+	main_test_libbfd();
+	main_test_on_exit();
+	main_test_backtrace();
+	main_test_libnuma();
+	main_test_timerfd();
+
+	return 0;
+}
diff --git a/tools/perf/config/feature-checks/test-backtrace.c b/tools/perf/config/feature-checks/test-backtrace.c
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..7124aa1dc8f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/perf/config/feature-checks/test-backtrace.c
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+#include <execinfo.h>
+#include <stdio.h>
+
+int main(void)
+{
+	void *backtrace_fns[10];
+	size_t entries;
+
+	entries = backtrace(backtrace_fns, 10);
+	backtrace_symbols_fd(backtrace_fns, entries, 1);
+
+	return 0;
+}
diff --git a/tools/perf/config/feature-checks/test-bionic.c b/tools/perf/config/feature-checks/test-bionic.c
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..eac24e9513e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/perf/config/feature-checks/test-bionic.c
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+#include <android/api-level.h>
+
+int main(void)
+{
+	return __ANDROID_API__;
+}
diff --git a/tools/perf/config/feature-checks/test-cplus-demangle.c b/tools/perf/config/feature-checks/test-cplus-demangle.c
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..610c686e000
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/perf/config/feature-checks/test-cplus-demangle.c
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+extern int printf(const char *format, ...);
+extern char *cplus_demangle(const char *, int);
+
+int main(void)
+{
+	char symbol[4096] = "FieldName__9ClassNameFd";
+	char *tmp;
+
+	tmp = cplus_demangle(symbol, 0);
+
+	printf("demangled symbol: {%s}\n", tmp);
+
+	return 0;
+}
diff --git a/tools/perf/config/feature-checks/test-dwarf.c b/tools/perf/config/feature-checks/test-dwarf.c
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..3fc1801ce4a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/perf/config/feature-checks/test-dwarf.c
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+#include <dwarf.h>
+#include <elfutils/libdw.h>
+#include <elfutils/version.h>
+
+int main(void)
+{
+	Dwarf *dbg = dwarf_begin(0, DWARF_C_READ);
+
+	return (long)dbg;
+}
diff --git a/tools/perf/config/feature-checks/test-fortify-source.c b/tools/perf/config/feature-checks/test-fortify-source.c
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..c9f398d8786
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/perf/config/feature-checks/test-fortify-source.c
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+#include <stdio.h>
+
+int main(void)
+{
+	return puts("hi");
+}
diff --git a/tools/perf/config/feature-checks/test-glibc.c b/tools/perf/config/feature-checks/test-glibc.c
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..b0820345cd9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/perf/config/feature-checks/test-glibc.c
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+#include <gnu/libc-version.h>
+
+int main(void)
+{
+	const char *version = gnu_get_libc_version();
+
+	return (long)version;
+}
diff --git a/tools/perf/config/feature-checks/test-gtk2-infobar.c b/tools/perf/config/feature-checks/test-gtk2-infobar.c
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..397b4646d06
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/perf/config/feature-checks/test-gtk2-infobar.c
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+#pragma GCC diagnostic ignored "-Wstrict-prototypes"
+#include <gtk/gtk.h>
+#pragma GCC diagnostic error "-Wstrict-prototypes"
+
+int main(int argc, char *argv[])
+{
+	gtk_init(&argc, &argv);
+	gtk_info_bar_new();
+
+	return 0;
+}
diff --git a/tools/perf/config/feature-checks/test-gtk2.c b/tools/perf/config/feature-checks/test-gtk2.c
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..6bd80e50943
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/perf/config/feature-checks/test-gtk2.c
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+#pragma GCC diagnostic ignored "-Wstrict-prototypes"
+#include <gtk/gtk.h>
+#pragma GCC diagnostic error "-Wstrict-prototypes"
+
+int main(int argc, char *argv[])
+{
+	gtk_init(&argc, &argv);
+
+        return 0;
+}
diff --git a/tools/perf/config/feature-checks/test-hello.c b/tools/perf/config/feature-checks/test-hello.c
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..c9f398d8786
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/perf/config/feature-checks/test-hello.c
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+#include <stdio.h>
+
+int main(void)
+{
+	return puts("hi");
+}
diff --git a/tools/perf/config/feature-checks/test-libaudit.c b/tools/perf/config/feature-checks/test-libaudit.c
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..afc019f0864
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/perf/config/feature-checks/test-libaudit.c
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+#include <libaudit.h>
+
+extern int printf(const char *format, ...);
+
+int main(void)
+{
+	printf("error message: %s\n", audit_errno_to_name(0));
+
+	return audit_open();
+}
diff --git a/tools/perf/config/feature-checks/test-libbfd.c b/tools/perf/config/feature-checks/test-libbfd.c
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..24059907e99
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/perf/config/feature-checks/test-libbfd.c
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+#include <bfd.h>
+
+extern int printf(const char *format, ...);
+
+int main(void)
+{
+	char symbol[4096] = "FieldName__9ClassNameFd";
+	char *tmp;
+
+	tmp = bfd_demangle(0, symbol, 0);
+
+	printf("demangled symbol: {%s}\n", tmp);
+
+	return 0;
+}
diff --git a/tools/perf/config/feature-checks/test-libelf-getphdrnum.c b/tools/perf/config/feature-checks/test-libelf-getphdrnum.c
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..d710459306c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/perf/config/feature-checks/test-libelf-getphdrnum.c
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+#include <libelf.h>
+
+int main(void)
+{
+	size_t dst;
+
+	return elf_getphdrnum(0, &dst);
+}
diff --git a/tools/perf/config/feature-checks/test-libelf-mmap.c b/tools/perf/config/feature-checks/test-libelf-mmap.c
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..564427d7ef1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/perf/config/feature-checks/test-libelf-mmap.c
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+#include <libelf.h>
+
+int main(void)
+{
+	Elf *elf = elf_begin(0, ELF_C_READ_MMAP, 0);
+
+	return (long)elf;
+}
diff --git a/tools/perf/config/feature-checks/test-libelf.c b/tools/perf/config/feature-checks/test-libelf.c
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..08db322d895
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/perf/config/feature-checks/test-libelf.c
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+#include <libelf.h>
+
+int main(void)
+{
+	Elf *elf = elf_begin(0, ELF_C_READ, 0);
+
+	return (long)elf;
+}
diff --git a/tools/perf/config/feature-checks/test-libnuma.c b/tools/perf/config/feature-checks/test-libnuma.c
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..4763d9cd587
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/perf/config/feature-checks/test-libnuma.c
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+#include <numa.h>
+#include <numaif.h>
+
+int main(void)
+{
+	numa_available();
+
+	return 0;
+}
diff --git a/tools/perf/config/feature-checks/test-libperl.c b/tools/perf/config/feature-checks/test-libperl.c
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..8871f6a0fdb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/perf/config/feature-checks/test-libperl.c
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+#include <EXTERN.h>
+#include <perl.h>
+
+int main(void)
+{
+	perl_alloc();
+
+	return 0;
+}
diff --git a/tools/perf/config/feature-checks/test-libpython-version.c b/tools/perf/config/feature-checks/test-libpython-version.c
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..facea122d81
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/perf/config/feature-checks/test-libpython-version.c
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+#include <Python.h>
+
+#if PY_VERSION_HEX >= 0x03000000
+	#error
+#endif
+
+int main(void)
+{
+	return 0;
+}
diff --git a/tools/perf/config/feature-checks/test-libpython.c b/tools/perf/config/feature-checks/test-libpython.c
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..b24b28ad632
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/perf/config/feature-checks/test-libpython.c
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+#include <Python.h>
+
+int main(void)
+{
+	Py_Initialize();
+
+	return 0;
+}
diff --git a/tools/perf/config/feature-checks/test-libslang.c b/tools/perf/config/feature-checks/test-libslang.c
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..22ff22ed94d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/perf/config/feature-checks/test-libslang.c
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+#include <slang.h>
+
+int main(void)
+{
+	return SLsmg_init_smg();
+}
diff --git a/tools/perf/config/feature-checks/test-libunwind.c b/tools/perf/config/feature-checks/test-libunwind.c
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..43b9369bcab
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/perf/config/feature-checks/test-libunwind.c
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+#include <libunwind.h>
+#include <stdlib.h>
+
+extern int UNW_OBJ(dwarf_search_unwind_table) (unw_addr_space_t as,
+                                      unw_word_t ip,
+                                      unw_dyn_info_t *di,
+                                      unw_proc_info_t *pi,
+                                      int need_unwind_info, void *arg);
+
+
+#define dwarf_search_unwind_table UNW_OBJ(dwarf_search_unwind_table)
+
+static unw_accessors_t accessors;
+
+int main(void)
+{
+	unw_addr_space_t addr_space;
+
+	addr_space = unw_create_addr_space(&accessors, 0);
+	if (addr_space)
+		return 0;
+
+	unw_init_remote(NULL, addr_space, NULL);
+	dwarf_search_unwind_table(addr_space, 0, NULL, NULL, 0, NULL);
+
+	return 0;
+}
diff --git a/tools/perf/config/feature-checks/test-on-exit.c b/tools/perf/config/feature-checks/test-on-exit.c
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..8e88b16e6de
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/perf/config/feature-checks/test-on-exit.c
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+#include <stdio.h>
+#include <stdlib.h>
+
+static void exit_fn(int status, void *__data)
+{
+	printf("exit status: %d, data: %d\n", status, *(int *)__data);
+}
+
+static int data = 123;
+
+int main(void)
+{
+	on_exit(exit_fn, &data);
+
+	return 321;
+}
diff --git a/tools/perf/config/feature-checks/test-stackprotector-all.c b/tools/perf/config/feature-checks/test-stackprotector-all.c
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..c9f398d8786
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/perf/config/feature-checks/test-stackprotector-all.c
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+#include <stdio.h>
+
+int main(void)
+{
+	return puts("hi");
+}
diff --git a/tools/perf/config/feature-checks/test-stackprotector.c b/tools/perf/config/feature-checks/test-stackprotector.c
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..c9f398d8786
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/perf/config/feature-checks/test-stackprotector.c
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+#include <stdio.h>
+
+int main(void)
+{
+	return puts("hi");
+}
diff --git a/tools/perf/config/feature-checks/test-timerfd.c b/tools/perf/config/feature-checks/test-timerfd.c
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..8c5c083b4d3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/perf/config/feature-checks/test-timerfd.c
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+/*
+ * test for timerfd functions used by perf-kvm-stat-live
+ */
+#include <sys/timerfd.h>
+
+int main(void)
+{
+	struct itimerspec new_value;
+
+	int fd = timerfd_create(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, TFD_NONBLOCK);
+	if (fd < 0)
+		return 1;
+
+	if (timerfd_settime(fd, 0, &new_value, NULL) != 0)
+		return 1;
+
+	return 0;
+}
diff --git a/tools/perf/config/feature-checks/test-volatile-register-var.c b/tools/perf/config/feature-checks/test-volatile-register-var.c
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..c9f398d8786
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/perf/config/feature-checks/test-volatile-register-var.c
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+#include <stdio.h>
+
+int main(void)
+{
+	return puts("hi");
+}
diff --git a/tools/perf/config/feature-tests.mak b/tools/perf/config/feature-tests.mak
deleted file mode 100644
index f79305739ec..00000000000
--- a/tools/perf/config/feature-tests.mak
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,246 +0,0 @@
-define SOURCE_HELLO
-#include <stdio.h>
-int main(void)
-{
-	return puts(\"hi\");
-}
-endef
-
-ifndef NO_DWARF
-define SOURCE_DWARF
-#include <dwarf.h>
-#include <elfutils/libdw.h>
-#include <elfutils/version.h>
-#ifndef _ELFUTILS_PREREQ
-#error
-#endif
-
-int main(void)
-{
-	Dwarf *dbg = dwarf_begin(0, DWARF_C_READ);
-	return (long)dbg;
-}
-endef
-endif
-
-define SOURCE_LIBELF
-#include <libelf.h>
-
-int main(void)
-{
-	Elf *elf = elf_begin(0, ELF_C_READ, 0);
-	return (long)elf;
-}
-endef
-
-define SOURCE_GLIBC
-#include <gnu/libc-version.h>
-
-int main(void)
-{
-	const char *version = gnu_get_libc_version();
-	return (long)version;
-}
-endef
-
-define SOURCE_BIONIC
-#include <android/api-level.h>
-
-int main(void)
-{
-	return __ANDROID_API__;
-}
-endef
-
-define SOURCE_ELF_MMAP
-#include <libelf.h>
-int main(void)
-{
-	Elf *elf = elf_begin(0, ELF_C_READ_MMAP, 0);
-	return (long)elf;
-}
-endef
-
-define SOURCE_ELF_GETPHDRNUM
-#include <libelf.h>
-int main(void)
-{
-	size_t dst;
-	return elf_getphdrnum(0, &dst);
-}
-endef
-
-ifndef NO_SLANG
-define SOURCE_SLANG
-#include <slang.h>
-
-int main(void)
-{
-	return SLsmg_init_smg();
-}
-endef
-endif
-
-ifndef NO_GTK2
-define SOURCE_GTK2
-#pragma GCC diagnostic ignored \"-Wstrict-prototypes\"
-#include <gtk/gtk.h>
-#pragma GCC diagnostic error \"-Wstrict-prototypes\"
-
-int main(int argc, char *argv[])
-{
-        gtk_init(&argc, &argv);
-
-        return 0;
-}
-endef
-
-define SOURCE_GTK2_INFOBAR
-#pragma GCC diagnostic ignored \"-Wstrict-prototypes\"
-#include <gtk/gtk.h>
-#pragma GCC diagnostic error \"-Wstrict-prototypes\"
-
-int main(void)
-{
-	gtk_info_bar_new();
-
-	return 0;
-}
-endef
-endif
-
-ifndef NO_LIBPERL
-define SOURCE_PERL_EMBED
-#include <EXTERN.h>
-#include <perl.h>
-
-int main(void)
-{
-perl_alloc();
-return 0;
-}
-endef
-endif
-
-ifndef NO_LIBPYTHON
-define SOURCE_PYTHON_VERSION
-#include <Python.h>
-#if PY_VERSION_HEX >= 0x03000000
-	#error
-#endif
-int main(void)
-{
-	return 0;
-}
-endef
-define SOURCE_PYTHON_EMBED
-#include <Python.h>
-int main(void)
-{
-	Py_Initialize();
-	return 0;
-}
-endef
-endif
-
-define SOURCE_BFD
-#include <bfd.h>
-
-int main(void)
-{
-	bfd_demangle(0, 0, 0);
-	return 0;
-}
-endef
-
-define SOURCE_CPLUS_DEMANGLE
-extern char *cplus_demangle(const char *, int);
-
-int main(void)
-{
-	cplus_demangle(0, 0);
-	return 0;
-}
-endef
-
-define SOURCE_STRLCPY
-#include <stdlib.h>
-extern size_t strlcpy(char *dest, const char *src, size_t size);
-
-int main(void)
-{
-	strlcpy(NULL, NULL, 0);
-	return 0;
-}
-endef
-
-ifndef NO_LIBUNWIND
-define SOURCE_LIBUNWIND
-#include <libunwind.h>
-#include <stdlib.h>
-
-extern int UNW_OBJ(dwarf_search_unwind_table) (unw_addr_space_t as,
-                                      unw_word_t ip,
-                                      unw_dyn_info_t *di,
-                                      unw_proc_info_t *pi,
-                                      int need_unwind_info, void *arg);
-
-
-#define dwarf_search_unwind_table UNW_OBJ(dwarf_search_unwind_table)
-
-int main(void)
-{
-	unw_addr_space_t addr_space;
-	addr_space = unw_create_addr_space(NULL, 0);
-	unw_init_remote(NULL, addr_space, NULL);
-	dwarf_search_unwind_table(addr_space, 0, NULL, NULL, 0, NULL);
-	return 0;
-}
-endef
-endif
-
-ifndef NO_BACKTRACE
-define SOURCE_BACKTRACE
-#include <execinfo.h>
-#include <stdio.h>
-
-int main(void)
-{
-	backtrace(NULL, 0);
-	backtrace_symbols(NULL, 0);
-	return 0;
-}
-endef
-endif
-
-ifndef NO_LIBAUDIT
-define SOURCE_LIBAUDIT
-#include <libaudit.h>
-
-int main(void)
-{
-	printf(\"error message: %s\", audit_errno_to_name(0));
-	return audit_open();
-}
-endef
-endif
-
-define SOURCE_ON_EXIT
-#include <stdio.h>
-
-int main(void)
-{
-	return on_exit(NULL, NULL);
-}
-endef
-
-define SOURCE_LIBNUMA
-#include <numa.h>
-#include <numaif.h>
-
-int main(void)
-{
-	numa_available();
-	return 0;
-}
-endef
diff --git a/tools/perf/config/utilities.mak b/tools/perf/config/utilities.mak
index 94d2d4f9c35..f168debc5be 100644
--- a/tools/perf/config/utilities.mak
+++ b/tools/perf/config/utilities.mak
@@ -179,16 +179,9 @@ _ge_attempt = $(if $(get-executable),$(get-executable),$(_gea_warn)$(call _gea_e
 _gea_warn = $(warning The path '$(1)' is not executable.)
 _gea_err  = $(if $(1),$(error Please set '$(1)' appropriately))
 
-# try-cc
-# Usage: option = $(call try-cc, source-to-build, cc-options, msg)
-ifneq ($(V),1)
-TRY_CC_OUTPUT= > /dev/null 2>&1
+ifneq ($(findstring $(MAKEFLAGS),s),s)
+  ifneq ($(V),1)
+    QUIET_CLEAN		= @printf '  CLEAN    %s\n' $1;
+    QUIET_INSTALL	= @printf '  INSTALL  %s\n' $1;
+  endif
 endif
-TRY_CC_MSG=echo "    CHK $(3)" 1>&2;
-
-try-cc = $(shell sh -c						  \
-	'TMP="$(OUTPUT)$(TMPOUT).$$$$";				  \
-	 $(TRY_CC_MSG)						  \
-	 echo "$(1)" |						  \
-	 $(CC) -x c - $(2) -o "$$TMP" $(TRY_CC_OUTPUT) && echo y; \
-	 rm -f "$$TMP"')