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Linus Torvalds 486adcea4a Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull perf updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The main kernel side changes were:

   - Modernize the kprobe and uprobe creation/destruction tooling ABIs:

     The existing text based APIs (kprobe_events and uprobe_events in
     tracefs), are naive, limited ABIs in that they require user-space
     to clean up after themselves, which is both difficult and fragile
     if the tool is buggy or exits unexpectedly. In other words they are
     not really suited for modern, robust tooling.

     So introduce a modern, file descriptor based ABI that does not have
     these limitations: introduce the 'perf_kprobe' and 'perf_uprobe'
     PMUs and extend the perf_event_open() syscall to create events with
     a kprobe/uprobe attached to them. These [k,u]probe are associated
     with this file descriptor, so they are not available in tracefs.

     (Song Liu)

   - Intel Cannon Lake CPU support (Harry Pan)

   - Intel PT cleanups (Alexander Shishkin)

   - Improve the performance of pinned/flexible event groups by using RB
     trees (Alexey Budankov)

   - Add PERF_EVENT_IOC_MODIFY_ATTRIBUTES which allows the modification
     of hardware breakpoints, which new ABI variant massively speeds up
     existing tooling that uses hardware breakpoints to instrument (and
     debug) memory usage.

     (Milind Chabbi, Jiri Olsa)

   - Various Intel PEBS handling fixes and improvements, and other Intel
     PMU improvements (Kan Liang)

   - Various perf core improvements and optimizations (Peter Zijlstra)

   - ... misc cleanups, fixes and updates.

  There's over 200 tooling commits, here's an (imperfect) list of
  highlights:

   - 'perf annotate' improvements:

      * Recognize and handle jumps to other functions as calls, which
        improves the navigation along jumps and back. (Arnaldo Carvalho
        de Melo)

      * Add the 'P' hotkey in TUI annotation to dump annotation output
        into a file, to ease e-mail reporting of annotation details.
        (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)

      * Add an IPC/cycles column to the TUI (Jin Yao)

      * Improve s390 assembly annotation (Thomas Richter)

      * Refactor the output formatting logic to better separate it into
        interactive and non-interactive features and add the --stdio2
        output variant to demonstrate this. (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)

   - 'perf script' improvements:

      * Add Python 3 support (Jaroslav Škarvada)

      * Add --show-round-event (Jiri Olsa)

   - 'perf c2c' improvements:

      * Add NUMA analysis support (Jiri Olsa)

   - 'perf trace' improvements:

      * Improve PowerPC support (Ravi Bangoria)

   - 'perf inject' improvements:

      * Integrate ARM CoreSight traces (Robert Walker)

   - 'perf stat' improvements:

      * Add the --interval-count option (yuzhoujian)

      * Add the --timeout option (yuzhoujian)

   - 'perf sched' improvements (Changbin Du)

   - Vendor events improvements :

      * Add IBM s390 vendor events (Thomas Richter)

      * Add and improve arm64 vendor events (John Garry, Ganapatrao
        Kulkarni)

      * Update POWER9 vendor events (Sukadev Bhattiprolu)

   - Intel PT tooling improvements (Adrian Hunter)

   - PMU handling improvements (Agustin Vega-Frias)

   - Record machine topology in perf.data (Jiri Olsa)

   - Various overwrite related cleanups (Kan Liang)

   - Add arm64 dwarf post unwind support (Kim Phillips, Jean Pihet)

   - ... and lots of other changes, cleanups and fixes, see the shortlog
     and Git history for details"

* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (262 commits)
  perf/x86/intel: Enable C-state residency events for Cannon Lake
  perf/x86/intel: Add Cannon Lake support for RAPL profiling
  perf/x86/pt, coresight: Clean up address filter structure
  perf vendor events s390: Add JSON files for IBM z14
  perf vendor events s390: Add JSON files for IBM z13
  perf vendor events s390: Add JSON files for IBM zEC12 zBC12
  perf vendor events s390: Add JSON files for IBM z196
  perf vendor events s390: Add JSON files for IBM z10EC z10BC
  perf mmap: Be consistent when checking for an unmaped ring buffer
  perf mmap: Fix accessing unmapped mmap in perf_mmap__read_done()
  perf build: Fix check-headers.sh opts assignment
  perf/x86: Update rdpmc_always_available static key to the modern API
  perf annotate: Use absolute addresses to calculate jump target offsets
  perf annotate: Defer searching for comma in raw line till it is needed
  perf annotate: Support jumping from one function to another
  perf annotate: Add "_local" to jump/offset validation routines
  perf python: Reference Py_None before returning it
  perf annotate: Mark jumps to outher functions with the call arrow
  perf annotate: Pass function descriptor to its instruction parsing routines
  perf annotate: No need to calculate notes->start twice
  ...
2018-04-02 11:06:34 -07:00
arch Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-04-02 11:06:34 -07:00
block for-linus-20180302 2018-03-02 09:35:36 -08:00
certs certs/blacklist_nohashes.c: fix const confusion in certs blacklist 2018-02-21 15:35:43 -08:00
crypto X.509: fix NULL dereference when restricting key with unsupported_sig 2018-02-22 14:38:34 +00:00
Documentation Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-04-02 11:06:34 -07:00
drivers Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-04-02 11:06:34 -07:00
firmware kbuild: remove all dummy assignments to obj- 2017-11-18 11:46:06 +09:00
fs ceph: only dirty ITER_IOVEC pages for direct read 2018-03-30 11:17:48 +02:00
include Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-04-02 11:06:34 -07:00
init jump_label: Disable jump labels in __exit code 2018-03-20 08:57:17 +01:00
ipc ipc/shm.c: add split function to shm_vm_ops 2018-03-28 13:42:05 -10:00
kernel Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-04-02 11:06:34 -07:00
lib Merge branch 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-04-02 10:27:16 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Add MPL-1.1 license 2018-01-06 10:59:44 -07:00
mm mm/kmemleak.c: wait for scan completion before disabling free 2018-03-28 13:42:05 -10:00
net Kbuild fixes for v4.16 (3rd) 2018-03-30 18:53:57 -10:00
samples - do not build samples when cross compiling (Michal Hocko) 2018-02-27 10:39:29 -08:00
scripts main drm pull request for v4.17 2018-04-02 07:59:23 -07:00
security integrity/security: fix digsig.c build error with header file 2018-02-22 20:09:08 -08:00
sound main drm pull request for v4.17 2018-04-02 07:59:23 -07:00
tools Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-04-02 11:06:34 -07:00
usr initramfs: fix initramfs rebuilds w/ compression after disabling 2017-11-03 07:39:19 -07:00
virt kvm/arm fixes for 4.16, take 2 2018-03-15 21:45:37 +01:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
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.gitignore .gitignore: ignore ASN.1 auto generated files 2018-02-14 21:05:38 +01:00
.mailmap mailmap: Update email address for Gregory CLEMENT 2018-03-09 17:48:50 +01:00
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Kbuild Kbuild updates for v4.15 2017-11-17 17:45:29 -08:00
Kconfig License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
MAINTAINERS Merge branch 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-04-02 10:27:16 -07:00
Makefile Linux 4.16 2018-04-01 14:20:27 -07:00
README README: add a new README file, pointing to the Documentation/ 2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00

Linux kernel
============

This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst

Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.