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Revision tags: v6.6.67, v6.6.66, v6.6.65, v6.6.64, v6.6.63, v6.6.62, v6.6.61, v6.6.60, v6.6.59, v6.6.58, v6.6.57, v6.6.56, v6.6.55, v6.6.54, v6.6.53, v6.6.52, v6.6.51, v6.6.50, v6.6.49, v6.6.48, v6.6.47, v6.6.46, v6.6.45, v6.6.44, v6.6.43, v6.6.42, v6.6.41, v6.6.40, v6.6.39, v6.6.38, v6.6.37, v6.6.36, v6.6.35, v6.6.34, v6.6.33, v6.6.32, v6.6.31, v6.6.30, v6.6.29, v6.6.28, v6.6.27, v6.6.26, v6.6.25, v6.6.24, v6.6.23, v6.6.16, v6.6.15, v6.6.14, v6.6.13, v6.6.12, v6.6.11, v6.6.10, v6.6.9, v6.6.8, v6.6.7, v6.6.6, v6.6.5, v6.6.4, v6.6.3, v6.6.2, v6.5.11, v6.6.1, v6.5.10, v6.6, v6.5.9, v6.5.8, v6.5.7, v6.5.6, v6.5.5, v6.5.4, v6.5.3, v6.5.2, v6.1.51, v6.5.1, v6.1.50, v6.5, v6.1.49, v6.1.48, v6.1.46, v6.1.45, v6.1.44, v6.1.43, v6.1.42, v6.1.41, v6.1.40, v6.1.39, v6.1.38, v6.1.37, v6.1.36, v6.4, v6.1.35, v6.1.34, v6.1.33, v6.1.32, v6.1.31, v6.1.30, v6.1.29, v6.1.28
# 9a87ffc9 01-May-2023 Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>

Merge branch 'next' into for-linus

Prepare input updates for 6.4 merge window.


Revision tags: v6.1.27
# cdc780f0 26-Apr-2023 Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>

Merge branch 'for-6.4/amd-sfh' into for-linus

- assorted functional fixes for amd-sfh driver (Basavaraj Natikar)


Revision tags: v6.1.26, v6.3, v6.1.25, v6.1.24
# ea68a3e9 11-Apr-2023 Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>

Merge drm/drm-next into drm-intel-gt-next

Need to pull in commit from drm-next (earlier in drm-intel-next):

1eca0778f4b3 ("drm/i915: add struct i915_dsm to wrap dsm members together")

In order to

Merge drm/drm-next into drm-intel-gt-next

Need to pull in commit from drm-next (earlier in drm-intel-next):

1eca0778f4b3 ("drm/i915: add struct i915_dsm to wrap dsm members together")

In order to merge following patch to drm-intel-gt-next:

https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/530942/?series=114925&rev=6

Signed-off-by: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>

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Revision tags: v6.1.23, v6.1.22
# cecdd52a 28-Mar-2023 Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@intel.com>

Merge drm/drm-next into drm-intel-next

Catch up with 6.3-rc cycle...

Signed-off-by: Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@intel.com>


Revision tags: v6.1.21
# e752ab11 20-Mar-2023 Rob Clark <robdclark@chromium.org>

Merge remote-tracking branch 'drm/drm-next' into msm-next

Merge drm-next into msm-next to pick up external clk and PM dependencies
for improved a6xx GPU reset sequence.

Signed-off-by: Rob Clark <ro

Merge remote-tracking branch 'drm/drm-next' into msm-next

Merge drm-next into msm-next to pick up external clk and PM dependencies
for improved a6xx GPU reset sequence.

Signed-off-by: Rob Clark <robdclark@chromium.org>

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# d26a3a6c 17-Mar-2023 Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>

Merge tag 'v6.3-rc2' into next

Merge with mainline to get of_property_present() and other newer APIs.


Revision tags: v6.1.20, v6.1.19
# b3c9a041 13-Mar-2023 Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>

Merge drm/drm-fixes into drm-misc-fixes

Backmerging to get latest upstream.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>


# a1eccc57 13-Mar-2023 Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>

Merge drm/drm-next into drm-misc-next

Backmerging to get v6.3-rc1 and sync with the other DRM trees.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>


Revision tags: v6.1.18, v6.1.17, v6.1.16, v6.1.15, v6.1.14
# 0df82189 23-Feb-2023 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Merge tag 'perf-tools-for-v6.3-1-2023-02-22' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux

Pull perf tools updates from Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo:
"Miscellaneous:

- Add Ian Rogers

Merge tag 'perf-tools-for-v6.3-1-2023-02-22' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux

Pull perf tools updates from Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo:
"Miscellaneous:

- Add Ian Rogers to MAINTAINERS as a perf tools reviewer.

- Add support for retire latency feature (pipeline stall of a
instruction compared to the previous one, in cycles) present on
some Intel processors.

- Add 'perf c2c' report option to show false sharing with adjacent
cachelines, to be used in machines with cacheline prefetching,
where accesses to a cacheline brings the next one too.

- Skip 'perf test bpf' when the required kernel-debuginfo package
isn't installed.

- Avoid d3-flame-graph package dependency in 'perf script flamegraph',
making this feature more generally available.

- Add JSON metric events to present CPI stall cycles in Power10.

- Assorted improvements/refactorings on the JSON metrics parsing
code.

perf lock contention:

- Add -o/--lock-owner option:

$ sudo ./perf lock contention -abo -- ./perf bench sched pipe
# Running 'sched/pipe' benchmark:
# Executed 1000000 pipe operations between two processes

Total time: 4.766 [sec]

4.766540 usecs/op
209795 ops/sec
contended total wait max wait avg wait pid owner

403 565.32 us 26.81 us 1.40 us -1 Unknown
4 27.99 us 8.57 us 7.00 us 1583145 sched-pipe
1 8.25 us 8.25 us 8.25 us 1583144 sched-pipe
1 2.03 us 2.03 us 2.03 us 5068 chrome

The owner is unknown in most cases. Filtering only for the
mutex locks, it will more likely get the owners.

- -S/--callstack-filter is to limit display entries having the given
string in the callstack:

$ sudo ./perf lock contention -abv -S net sleep 1
...
contended total wait max wait avg wait type caller

5 70.20 us 16.13 us 14.04 us spinlock __dev_queue_xmit+0xb6d
0xffffffffa5dd1c60 _raw_spin_lock+0x30
0xffffffffa5b8f6ed __dev_queue_xmit+0xb6d
0xffffffffa5cd8267 ip6_finish_output2+0x2c7
0xffffffffa5cdac14 ip6_finish_output+0x1d4
0xffffffffa5cdb477 ip6_xmit+0x457
0xffffffffa5d1fd17 inet6_csk_xmit+0xd7
0xffffffffa5c5f4aa __tcp_transmit_skb+0x54a
0xffffffffa5c6467d tcp_keepalive_timer+0x2fd

Please note that to have the -b option (BPF) working above one has
to build with BUILD_BPF_SKEL=1.

- Add more 'perf test' entries to test these new features.

perf script:

- Add 'cgroup' field for 'perf script' output:

$ perf record --all-cgroups -- true
$ perf script -F comm,pid,cgroup
true 337112 /user.slice/user-657345.slice/user@657345.service/...
true 337112 /user.slice/user-657345.slice/user@657345.service/...
true 337112 /user.slice/user-657345.slice/user@657345.service/...
true 337112 /user.slice/user-657345.slice/user@657345.service/...

- Add support for showing branch speculation information in 'perf
script' and in the 'perf report' raw dump (-D).

perf record:

- Fix 'perf record' segfault with --overwrite and --max-size.

perf test/bench:

- Switch basic BPF filtering test to use syscall tracepoint to avoid
the variable number of probes inserted when using the previous
probe point (do_epoll_wait) that happens on different CPU
architectures.

- Fix DWARF unwind test by adding non-inline to expected function in
a backtrace.

- Use 'grep -c' where the longer form 'grep | wc -l' was being used.

- Add getpid and execve benchmarks to 'perf bench syscall'.

Intel PT:

- Add support for synthesizing "cycle" events from Intel PT traces as
we support "instruction" events when Intel PT CYC packets are
available. This enables much more accurate profiles than when using
the regular 'perf record -e cycles' (the default) when the workload
lasts for very short periods (<10ms).

- .plt symbol handling improvements, better handling IBT (in the past
MPX) done in the context of decoding Intel PT processor traces,
IFUNC symbols on x86_64, static executables, understanding .plt.got
symbols on x86_64.

- Add a 'perf test' to test symbol resolution, part of the .plt
improvements series, this tests things like symbol size in contexts
where only the symbol start is available (kallsyms), etc.

- Better handle auxtrace/Intel PT data when using pipe mode (perf
record sleep 1|perf report).

- Fix symbol lookup with kcore with multiple segments match stext,
getting the symbol resolution to just show DSOs as unknown.

ARM:

- Timestamp improvements for ARM64 systems with ETMv4 (Embedded Trace
Macrocell v4).

- Ensure ARM64 CoreSight timestamps don't go backwards.

- Document that ARM64 SPE (Statistical Profiling Extension) is used
with 'perf c2c/mem'.

- Add raw decoding for ARM64 SPEv1.2 previous branch address.

- Update neoverse-n2-v2 ARM vendor events (JSON tables): topdown L1,
TLB, cache, branch, PE utilization and instruction mix metrics.

- Update decoder code for OpenCSD version 1.4, on ARM64 systems.

- Fix command line auto-complete of CPU events on aarch64.

Build:

- Fix 'perf probe' and 'perf test' when libtraceevent isn't linked,
as several tests use tracepoints, those should be skipped.

- More fallout fixes for the removal of tools/lib/traceevent/.

- Fix build error when linking with libpfm"

* tag 'perf-tools-for-v6.3-1-2023-02-22' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux: (114 commits)
perf tests stat_all_metrics: Change true workload to sleep workload for system wide check
perf vendor events power10: Add JSON metric events to present CPI stall cycles in powerpc
perf intel-pt: Synthesize cycle events
perf c2c: Add report option to show false sharing in adjacent cachelines
perf record: Fix segfault with --overwrite and --max-size
perf stat: Avoid merging/aggregating metric counts twice
perf tools: Fix perf tool build error in util/pfm.c
perf tools: Fix auto-complete on aarch64
perf lock contention: Support old rw_semaphore type
perf lock contention: Add -o/--lock-owner option
perf lock contention: Fix to save callstack for the default modified
perf test bpf: Skip test if kernel-debuginfo is not present
perf probe: Update the exit error codes in function try_to_find_probe_trace_event
perf script: Fix missing Retire Latency fields option documentation
perf event x86: Add retire_lat when synthesizing PERF_SAMPLE_WEIGHT_STRUCT
perf test x86: Support the retire_lat (Retire Latency) sample_type check
perf test bpf: Check for libtraceevent support
perf script: Support Retire Latency
perf report: Support Retire Latency
perf lock contention: Support filters for different aggregation
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Revision tags: v6.1.13, v6.2, v6.1.12, v6.1.11, v6.1.10, v6.1.9, v6.1.8
# 1b69346e 20-Jan-2023 Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>

perf test: Add Symbols test

Add a test to check function symbols do not overlap and are not zero
length.

The main motivation for the test is to make it easier to review changes
to PLT symbol synthe

perf test: Add Symbols test

Add a test to check function symbols do not overlap and are not zero
length.

The main motivation for the test is to make it easier to review changes
to PLT symbol synthesis i.e. changes to dso__synthesize_plt_symbols().

By default the test uses the perf executable as a test DSO, but a
specific DSO can be specified via a new perf test option "--dso".

The test is useful in the following ways:

- Any DSO can be tested, even ones that do not run on the current
architecture. For example, using cross-compiled DSOs to see how
well perf handles different architectures.

- With verbose > 1 (e.g. -vv), all the symbols are printed, which
makes it easier to see issues.

- perf removes duplicate symbols and expands zero-length symbols
to reach the next symbol, however that is done before adding
synthesized symbols, so the test is checking those also.

Example:

$ perf test -v Symbols
74: Symbols :
--- start ---
test child forked, pid 154918
Testing /home/user/bin/perf
Overlapping symbols:
7d000-7f3a0 g _init
7d030-7d040 g __printf_chk@plt
test child finished with -1
---- end ----
Symbols: FAILED!

Note the test fails because perf expands the _init symbol over the PLT
because there are no PLT symbols at that point, but then
dso__synthesize_plt_symbols() creates them.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230120123456.12449-2-adrian.hunter@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

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Revision tags: v6.1.7, v6.1.6, v6.1.5, v6.0.19, v6.0.18, v6.1.4, v6.1.3, v6.0.17, v6.1.2, v6.0.16, v6.1.1, v6.0.15, v6.0.14, v6.0.13, v6.1, v6.0.12, v6.0.11, v6.0.10, v5.15.80, v6.0.9, v5.15.79, v6.0.8, v5.15.78, v6.0.7, v5.15.77, v5.15.76, v6.0.6, v6.0.5, v5.15.75, v6.0.4, v6.0.3, v6.0.2, v5.15.74, v5.15.73, v6.0.1, v5.15.72, v6.0, v5.15.71, v5.15.70, v5.15.69, v5.15.68, v5.15.67, v5.15.66, v5.15.65, v5.15.64, v5.15.63, v5.15.62, v5.15.61, v5.15.60, v5.15.59, v5.19, v5.15.58, v5.15.57, v5.15.56, v5.15.55, v5.15.54, v5.15.53, v5.15.52, v5.15.51, v5.15.50, v5.15.49, v5.15.48, v5.15.47, v5.15.46, v5.15.45, v5.15.44, v5.15.43, v5.15.42, v5.18, v5.15.41, v5.15.40, v5.15.39, v5.15.38, v5.15.37, v5.15.36, v5.15.35, v5.15.34, v5.15.33, v5.15.32, v5.15.31, v5.17, v5.15.30, v5.15.29, v5.15.28, v5.15.27, v5.15.26, v5.15.25, v5.15.24, v5.15.23, v5.15.22, v5.15.21, v5.15.20, v5.15.19, v5.15.18, v5.15.17, v5.4.173, v5.15.16, v5.15.15, v5.16, v5.15.10, v5.15.9, v5.15.8, v5.15.7, v5.15.6, v5.15.5, v5.15.4, v5.15.3, v5.15.2, v5.15.1, v5.15, v5.14.14, v5.14.13, v5.14.12, v5.14.11, v5.14.10, v5.14.9, v5.14.8, v5.14.7, v5.14.6, v5.10.67, v5.10.66, v5.14.5, v5.14.4, v5.10.65, v5.14.3, v5.10.64, v5.14.2, v5.10.63, v5.14.1, v5.10.62, v5.14, v5.10.61, v5.10.60, v5.10.53, v5.10.52, v5.10.51, v5.10.50, v5.10.49, v5.13, v5.10.46, v5.10.43, v5.10.42, v5.10.41, v5.10.40, v5.10.39, v5.4.119, v5.10.36, v5.10.35, v5.10.34, v5.4.116, v5.10.33, v5.12, v5.10.32, v5.10.31, v5.10.30, v5.10.27, v5.10.26, v5.10.25, v5.10.24, v5.10.23, v5.10.22, v5.10.21, v5.10.20, v5.10.19, v5.4.101, v5.10.18, v5.10.17, v5.11, v5.10.16, v5.10.15, v5.10.14, v5.10, v5.8.17, v5.8.16, v5.8.15, v5.9, v5.8.14, v5.8.13, v5.8.12, v5.8.11, v5.8.10, v5.8.9, v5.8.8, v5.8.7, v5.8.6, v5.4.62, v5.8.5, v5.8.4, v5.4.61, v5.8.3, v5.4.60, v5.8.2, v5.4.59, v5.8.1, v5.4.58, v5.4.57, v5.4.56, v5.8, v5.7.12, v5.4.55, v5.7.11, v5.4.54, v5.7.10, v5.4.53, v5.4.52, v5.7.9, v5.7.8, v5.4.51, v5.4.50, v5.7.7, v5.4.49, v5.7.6, v5.7.5, v5.4.48, v5.7.4, v5.7.3, v5.4.47, v5.4.46, v5.7.2, v5.4.45, v5.7.1, v5.4.44, v5.7, v5.4.43, v5.4.42, v5.4.41, v5.4.40, v5.4.39, v5.4.38, v5.4.37, v5.4.36, v5.4.35, v5.4.34, v5.4.33, v5.4.32, v5.4.31, v5.4.30, v5.4.29, v5.6, v5.4.28, v5.4.27, v5.4.26, v5.4.25, v5.4.24, v5.4.23, v5.4.22, v5.4.21, v5.4.20, v5.4.19, v5.4.18, v5.4.17, v5.4.16, v5.5, v5.4.15, v5.4.14, v5.4.13, v5.4.12, v5.4.11, v5.4.10, v5.4.9, v5.4.8, v5.4.7, v5.4.6, v5.4.5, v5.4.4, v5.4.3, v5.3.15, v5.4.2, v5.4.1, v5.3.14, v5.4, v5.3.13, v5.3.12, v5.3.11, v5.3.10, v5.3.9, v5.3.8, v5.3.7, v5.3.6, v5.3.5, v5.3.4, v5.3.3, v5.3.2, v5.3.1, v5.3, v5.2.14, v5.3-rc8, v5.2.13, v5.2.12, v5.2.11, v5.2.10, v5.2.9, v5.2.8, v5.2.7, v5.2.6, v5.2.5, v5.2.4, v5.2.3, v5.2.2, v5.2.1, v5.2, v5.1.16, v5.1.15, v5.1.14, v5.1.13, v5.1.12, v5.1.11, v5.1.10, v5.1.9, v5.1.8, v5.1.7, v5.1.6, v5.1.5, v5.1.4, v5.1.3, v5.1.2, v5.1.1, v5.0.14, v5.1, v5.0.13, v5.0.12, v5.0.11, v5.0.10, v5.0.9, v5.0.8, v5.0.7, v5.0.6, v5.0.5, v5.0.4, v5.0.3, v4.19.29, v5.0.2, v4.19.28, v5.0.1, v4.19.27, v5.0, v4.19.26, v4.19.25, v4.19.24, v4.19.23, v4.19.22, v4.19.21, v4.19.20, v4.19.19, v4.19.18, v4.19.17, v4.19.16, v4.19.15, v4.19.14, v4.19.13, v4.19.12, v4.19.11, v4.19.10, v4.19.9, v4.19.8, v4.19.7, v4.19.6, v4.19.5, v4.19.4, v4.18.20, v4.19.3, v4.18.19, v4.19.2, v4.18.18, v4.18.17, v4.19.1, v4.19, v4.18.16, v4.18.15, v4.18.14, v4.18.13, v4.18.12, v4.18.11, v4.18.10, v4.18.9, v4.18.7, v4.18.6, v4.18.5, v4.17.18, v4.18.4, v4.18.3, v4.17.17, v4.18.2, v4.17.16, v4.17.15, v4.18.1, v4.18, v4.17.14, v4.17.13, v4.17.12, v4.17.11, v4.17.10, v4.17.9, v4.17.8, v4.17.7, v4.17.6, v4.17.5, v4.17.4, v4.17.3, v4.17.2, v4.17.1, v4.17, v4.16, v4.15, v4.13.16, v4.14, v4.13.5, v4.13, v4.12, v4.10.17, v4.10.16, v4.10.15, v4.10.14, v4.10.13, v4.10.12, v4.10.11, v4.10.10, v4.10.9, v4.10.8, v4.10.7, v4.10.6, v4.10.5, v4.10.4, v4.10.3, v4.10.2, v4.10.1, v4.10
# f26e8817 16-Dec-2016 Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>

Merge branch 'next' into for-linus

Prepare input updates for 4.10 merge window.


Revision tags: v4.9, openbmc-4.4-20161121-1, v4.4.33, v4.4.32, v4.4.31
# 712cba5d 07-Nov-2016 Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com>

Merge tag 'v4.9-rc3' into xtensa-for-next

Linux 4.9-rc3


# cc9b9402 04-Nov-2016 Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>

Merge branch 'topic/error' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/broonie/regulator into regulator-fixed


# 9902aa47 01-Nov-2016 Russell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>

Merge branch 'drm-tda998x-mali' into drm-tda998x-devel


Revision tags: v4.4.30, v4.4.29, v4.4.28, v4.4.27, v4.7.10, openbmc-4.4-20161021-1, v4.7.9, v4.4.26, v4.7.8, v4.4.25
# 4a7126a2 13-Oct-2016 Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>

Merge tag 'v4.8' into next

Sync up with mainline to bring in I2C host notify changes and other
updates.


Revision tags: v4.4.24, v4.7.7, v4.8, v4.4.23, v4.7.6, v4.7.5, v4.4.22, v4.4.21, v4.7.4
# 16217dc7 14-Sep-2016 Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

Merge tag 'irqchip-4.9-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/maz/arm-platforms into irq/core

Merge the first drop of irqchip updates for 4.9 from Marc Zyngier:

- ACPI IORT core code
-

Merge tag 'irqchip-4.9-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/maz/arm-platforms into irq/core

Merge the first drop of irqchip updates for 4.9 from Marc Zyngier:

- ACPI IORT core code
- IORT support for the GICv3 ITS
- A few of GIC cleanups

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# cc926387 15-Aug-2016 Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>

Merge remote-tracking branch 'airlied/drm-next' into drm-intel-next-queued

Backmerge because too many conflicts, and also we need to get at the
latest struct fence patches from Gustavo. Requested by

Merge remote-tracking branch 'airlied/drm-next' into drm-intel-next-queued

Backmerge because too many conflicts, and also we need to get at the
latest struct fence patches from Gustavo. Requested by Chris Wilson.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com>

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Revision tags: v4.4.17, openbmc-4.4-20160804-1, v4.4.16
# df15929f 27-Jul-2016 Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

Merge branch 'linus' into x86/microcode, to pick up merge window changes

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>


# 7e4dc77b 25-Jul-2016 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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

Pull perf updates from Ingo Molnar:
"With over 300 commits it's been a busy cycle - with most of the work

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

Pull perf updates from Ingo Molnar:
"With over 300 commits it's been a busy cycle - with most of the work
concentrated on the tooling side (as it should).

The main kernel side enhancements were:

- Add per event callchain limit: Recently we introduced a sysctl to
tune the max-stack for all events for which callchains were
requested:

$ sysctl kernel.perf_event_max_stack
kernel.perf_event_max_stack = 127

Now this patch introduces a way to configure this per event, i.e.
this becomes possible:

$ perf record -e sched:*/max-stack=2/ -e block:*/max-stack=10/ -a

allowing finer tuning of how much buffer space callchains use.

This uses an u16 from the reserved space at the end, leaving
another u16 for future use.

There has been interest in even finer tuning, namely to control the
max stack for kernel and userspace callchains separately. Further
discussion is needed, we may for instance use the remaining u16 for
that and when it is present, assume that the sample_max_stack
introduced in this patch applies for the kernel, and the u16 left
is used for limiting the userspace callchain (Arnaldo Carvalho de
Melo)

- Optimize AUX event (hardware assisted side-band event) delivery
(Kan Liang)

- Rework Intel family name macro usage (this is partially x86 arch
work) (Dave Hansen)

- Refine and fix Intel LBR support (David Carrillo-Cisneros)

- Add support for Intel 'TopDown' events (Andi Kleen)

- Intel uncore PMU driver fixes and enhancements (Kan Liang)

- ... other misc changes.

Here's an incomplete list of the tooling enhancements (but there's
much more, see the shortlog and the git log for details):

- Support cross unwinding, i.e. collecting '--call-graph dwarf'
perf.data files in one machine and then doing analysis in another
machine of a different hardware architecture. This enables, for
instance, to do:

$ perf record -a --call-graph dwarf

on a x86-32 or aarch64 system and then do 'perf report' on it on a
x86_64 workstation (He Kuang)

- Allow reading from a backward ring buffer (one setup via
sys_perf_event_open() with perf_event_attr.write_backward = 1)
(Wang Nan)

- Finish merging initial SDT (Statically Defined Traces) support, see
cset comments for details about how it all works (Masami Hiramatsu)

- Support attaching eBPF programs to tracepoints (Wang Nan)

- Add demangling of symbols in programs written in the Rust language
(David Tolnay)

- Add support for tracepoints in the python binding, including an
example, that sets up and parses sched:sched_switch events,
tools/perf/python/tracepoint.py (Jiri Olsa)

- Introduce --stdio-color to set up the color output mode selection
in 'annotate' and 'report', allowing emit color escape sequences
when redirecting the output of these tools (Arnaldo Carvalho de
Melo)

- Add 'callindent' option to 'perf script -F', to indent the Intel PT
call stack, making this output more ftrace-like (Adrian Hunter,
Andi Kleen)

- Allow dumping the object files generated by llvm when processing
eBPF scriptlet events (Wang Nan)

- Add stackcollapse.py script to help generating flame graphs (Paolo
Bonzini)

- Add --ldlat option to 'perf mem' to specify load latency for loads
event (e.g. cpu/mem-loads/ ) (Jiri Olsa)

- Tooling support for Intel TopDown counters, recently added to the
kernel (Andi Kleen)"

* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (303 commits)
perf tests: Add is_printable_array test
perf tools: Make is_printable_array global
perf script python: Fix string vs byte array resolving
perf probe: Warn unmatched function filter correctly
perf cpu_map: Add more helpers
perf stat: Balance opening and reading events
tools: Copy linux/{hash,poison}.h and check for drift
perf tools: Remove include/linux/list.h from perf's MANIFEST
tools: Copy the bitops files accessed from the kernel and check for drift
Remove: kernel unistd*h files from perf's MANIFEST, not used
perf tools: Remove tools/perf/util/include/linux/const.h
perf tools: Remove tools/perf/util/include/asm/byteorder.h
perf tools: Add missing linux/compiler.h include to perf-sys.h
perf jit: Remove some no-op error handling
perf jit: Add missing curly braces
objtool: Initialize variable to silence old compiler
objtool: Add -I$(srctree)/tools/arch/$(ARCH)/include/uapi
perf record: Add --tail-synthesize option
perf session: Don't warn about out of order event if write_backward is used
perf tools: Enable overwrite settings
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# dc29bb47 01-Jul-2016 Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

Merge tag 'perf-core-for-mingo-20160630' 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:

New features

Merge tag 'perf-core-for-mingo-20160630' 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:

New features:

- Allow running 'perf test' entries in the same process, not forking to
test each testcase, useful for debugging (Jiri Olsa)

- Show number of samples in the stdio annotate header (Peter Zijlstra)

Documentation changes:

- Add documentation for perf.data on disk format (Andi Kleen)

Build fixes:

- Fix 'perf trace' build on old systems wrt missing SCHED_RESET_ON_FORK and
eventfd.h (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)

Infrastructure changes:

- Utility function to fetch arch from evsel/evlist (Ravi Bangoria)

Trivial changes:

- Fix spelling mistake: "missmatch" -> "mismatch" in libbpf (Colin Ian King)

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

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# 7fa9b8fb 28-Jun-2016 Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>

perf test: Add -F/--dont-fork option

Adding -F/--dont-fork option to bypass forking for each test. It's
useful for debugging test.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Car

perf test: Add -F/--dont-fork option

Adding -F/--dont-fork option to bypass forking for each test. It's
useful for debugging test.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Nilay Vaish <nilayvaish@gmail.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1467113345-12669-1-git-send-email-jolsa@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

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# e5451c8f 23-Feb-2016 Laxman Dewangan <ldewangan@nvidia.com>

Merge remote-tracking branch 'linusw-gpio/for-next' into devm_gpiochip

Base for demv_gpiochip_add_data() and devm_gpiochip_remove().


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# 4ba24fef 10-Feb-2015 Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>

Merge branch 'next' into for-linus

Prepare first round of input updates for 3.20.


Revision tags: v3.19, v3.19-rc7, v3.19-rc6, v3.19-rc5
# 0c49cd29 15-Jan-2015 Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>

Merge tag 'v3.19-rc4' into next

Merge with mainline to bring in the latest thermal and other changes.


Revision tags: v3.19-rc4, v3.19-rc3, v3.19-rc2, v3.19-rc1, v3.18, v3.18-rc7, v3.18-rc6
# aeb8f932 23-Nov-2014 Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>

Merge remote-tracking branch 'wireless-next/master' into iwlwifi-next


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