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<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>powerpc/perf/24x7: Fix lockdep warning</title>
<updated>2015-07-08T05:18:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sukadev Bhattiprolu</name>
<email>sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-07-07T16:21:10+00:00</published>
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The sysfs attributes for the 24x7 counters are dynamically allocated.
Initialize the attributes using sysfs_attr_init() to fix following
warning which occurs when CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCK_VMALLOC=y.

[    0.346249] audit: initializing netlink subsys (disabled)
[    0.346284] audit: type=2000 audit(1436295254.340:1): initialized
[    0.346489] BUG: key c0000000efe90198 not in .data!
[    0.346491] DEBUG_LOCKS_WARN_ON(1)
[    0.346502] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[    0.346504] WARNING: at ../kernel/locking/lockdep.c:3002
[    0.346506] Modules linked in:

Reported-by: Gustavo Luiz Duarte &lt;gustavold@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu &lt;sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Gustavo Luiz Duarte &lt;gustavold@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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The sysfs attributes for the 24x7 counters are dynamically allocated.
Initialize the attributes using sysfs_attr_init() to fix following
warning which occurs when CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCK_VMALLOC=y.

[    0.346249] audit: initializing netlink subsys (disabled)
[    0.346284] audit: type=2000 audit(1436295254.340:1): initialized
[    0.346489] BUG: key c0000000efe90198 not in .data!
[    0.346491] DEBUG_LOCKS_WARN_ON(1)
[    0.346502] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[    0.346504] WARNING: at ../kernel/locking/lockdep.c:3002
[    0.346506] Modules linked in:

Reported-by: Gustavo Luiz Duarte &lt;gustavold@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu &lt;sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Gustavo Luiz Duarte &lt;gustavold@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc/perf: Fix book3s kernel to userspace backtraces</title>
<updated>2015-06-02T03:26:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Anton Blanchard</name>
<email>anton@samba.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-05-26T05:10:24+00:00</published>
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When we take a PMU exception or a software event we call
perf_read_regs(). This overloads regs-&gt;result with a boolean that
describes if we should use the sampled instruction address register
(SIAR) or the regs.

If the exception is in kernel, we start with the kernel regs and
backtrace through the kernel stack. At this point we switch to the
userspace regs and backtrace the user stack with perf_callchain_user().

Unfortunately these regs have not got the perf_read_regs() treatment,
so regs-&gt;result could be anything. If it is non zero,
perf_instruction_pointer() decides to use the SIAR, and we get issues
like this:

0.11%  qemu-system-ppc  [kernel.kallsyms]        [k] _raw_spin_lock_irqsave
       |
       ---_raw_spin_lock_irqsave
          |
          |--52.35%-- 0
          |          |
          |          |--46.39%-- __hrtimer_start_range_ns
          |          |          kvmppc_run_core
          |          |          kvmppc_vcpu_run_hv
          |          |          kvmppc_vcpu_run
          |          |          kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run
          |          |          kvm_vcpu_ioctl
          |          |          do_vfs_ioctl
          |          |          sys_ioctl
          |          |          system_call
          |          |          |
          |          |          |--67.08%-- _raw_spin_lock_irqsave &lt;--- hi mum
          |          |          |          |
          |          |          |           --100.00%-- 0x7e714
          |          |          |                     0x7e714

Notice the bogus _raw_spin_irqsave when we transition from kernel
(system_call) to userspace (0x7e714). We inserted what was in the SIAR.

Add a check in regs_use_siar() to check that the regs in question
are from a PMU exception. With this fix the backtrace makes sense:

     0.47%  qemu-system-ppc  [kernel.vmlinux]         [k] _raw_spin_lock_irqsave
            |
            ---_raw_spin_lock_irqsave
               |
               |--53.83%-- 0
               |          |
               |          |--44.73%-- hrtimer_try_to_cancel
               |          |          kvmppc_start_thread
               |          |          kvmppc_run_core
               |          |          kvmppc_vcpu_run_hv
               |          |          kvmppc_vcpu_run
               |          |          kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run
               |          |          kvm_vcpu_ioctl
               |          |          do_vfs_ioctl
               |          |          sys_ioctl
               |          |          system_call
               |          |          __ioctl
               |          |          0x7e714
               |          |          0x7e714

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard &lt;anton@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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When we take a PMU exception or a software event we call
perf_read_regs(). This overloads regs-&gt;result with a boolean that
describes if we should use the sampled instruction address register
(SIAR) or the regs.

If the exception is in kernel, we start with the kernel regs and
backtrace through the kernel stack. At this point we switch to the
userspace regs and backtrace the user stack with perf_callchain_user().

Unfortunately these regs have not got the perf_read_regs() treatment,
so regs-&gt;result could be anything. If it is non zero,
perf_instruction_pointer() decides to use the SIAR, and we get issues
like this:

0.11%  qemu-system-ppc  [kernel.kallsyms]        [k] _raw_spin_lock_irqsave
       |
       ---_raw_spin_lock_irqsave
          |
          |--52.35%-- 0
          |          |
          |          |--46.39%-- __hrtimer_start_range_ns
          |          |          kvmppc_run_core
          |          |          kvmppc_vcpu_run_hv
          |          |          kvmppc_vcpu_run
          |          |          kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run
          |          |          kvm_vcpu_ioctl
          |          |          do_vfs_ioctl
          |          |          sys_ioctl
          |          |          system_call
          |          |          |
          |          |          |--67.08%-- _raw_spin_lock_irqsave &lt;--- hi mum
          |          |          |          |
          |          |          |           --100.00%-- 0x7e714
          |          |          |                     0x7e714

Notice the bogus _raw_spin_irqsave when we transition from kernel
(system_call) to userspace (0x7e714). We inserted what was in the SIAR.

Add a check in regs_use_siar() to check that the regs in question
are from a PMU exception. With this fix the backtrace makes sense:

     0.47%  qemu-system-ppc  [kernel.vmlinux]         [k] _raw_spin_lock_irqsave
            |
            ---_raw_spin_lock_irqsave
               |
               |--53.83%-- 0
               |          |
               |          |--44.73%-- hrtimer_try_to_cancel
               |          |          kvmppc_start_thread
               |          |          kvmppc_run_core
               |          |          kvmppc_vcpu_run_hv
               |          |          kvmppc_vcpu_run
               |          |          kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run
               |          |          kvm_vcpu_ioctl
               |          |          do_vfs_ioctl
               |          |          sys_ioctl
               |          |          system_call
               |          |          __ioctl
               |          |          0x7e714
               |          |          0x7e714

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard &lt;anton@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc/mm/thp: Make page table walk safe against thp split/collapse</title>
<updated>2015-04-17T01:23:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Aneesh Kumar K.V</name>
<email>aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-03-30T05:11:03+00:00</published>
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We can disable a THP split or a hugepage collapse by disabling irq.
We do send IPI to all the cpus in the early part of split/collapse,
and disabling local irq ensure we don't make progress with
split/collapse. If the THP is getting split we return NULL from
find_linux_pte_or_hugepte(). For all the current callers it should be ok.
We need to be careful if we want to use returned pte_t pointer outside
the irq disabled region. W.r.t to THP split, the pfn remains the same,
but then a hugepage collapse will result in a pfn change. There are
few steps we can take to avoid a hugepage collapse.One way is to take page
reference inside the irq disable region. Other option is to take
mmap_sem so that a parallel collapse will not happen. We can also
disable collapse by taking pmd_lock. Another method used by kvm
subsystem is to check whether we had a mmu_notifer update in between
using mmu_notifier_retry().

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V &lt;aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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We can disable a THP split or a hugepage collapse by disabling irq.
We do send IPI to all the cpus in the early part of split/collapse,
and disabling local irq ensure we don't make progress with
split/collapse. If the THP is getting split we return NULL from
find_linux_pte_or_hugepte(). For all the current callers it should be ok.
We need to be careful if we want to use returned pte_t pointer outside
the irq disabled region. W.r.t to THP split, the pfn remains the same,
but then a hugepage collapse will result in a pfn change. There are
few steps we can take to avoid a hugepage collapse.One way is to take page
reference inside the irq disable region. Other option is to take
mmap_sem so that a parallel collapse will not happen. We can also
disable collapse by taking pmd_lock. Another method used by kvm
subsystem is to check whether we had a mmu_notifer update in between
using mmu_notifier_retry().

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V &lt;aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'powerpc-4.1-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mpe/linux</title>
<updated>2015-04-16T18:53:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-04-16T18:53:32+00:00</published>
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Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:

 - Numerous minor fixes, cleanups etc.

 - More EEH work from Gavin to remove its dependency on device_nodes.

 - Memory hotplug implemented entirely in the kernel from Nathan
   Fontenot.

 - Removal of redundant CONFIG_PPC_OF by Kevin Hao.

 - Rewrite of VPHN parsing logic &amp; tests from Greg Kurz.

 - A fix from Nish Aravamudan to reduce memory usage by clamping
   nodes_possible_map.

 - Support for pstore on powernv from Hari Bathini.

 - Removal of old powerpc specific byte swap routines by David Gibson.

 - Fix from Vasant Hegde to prevent the flash driver telling you it was
   flashing your firmware when it wasn't.

 - Patch from Ben Herrenschmidt to add an OPAL heartbeat driver.

 - Fix for an oops causing get/put_cpu_var() imbalance in perf by Jan
   Stancek.

 - Some fixes for migration from Tyrel Datwyler.

 - A new syscall to switch the cpu endian by Michael Ellerman.

 - Large series from Wei Yang to implement SRIOV, reviewed and acked by
   Bjorn.

 - A fix for the OPAL sensor driver from Cédric Le Goater.

 - Fixes to get STRICT_MM_TYPECHECKS building again by Michael Ellerman.

 - Large series from Daniel Axtens to make our PCI hooks per PHB rather
   than per machine.

 - Small patch from Sam Bobroff to explicitly abort non-suspended
   transactions on syscalls, plus a test to exercise it.

 - Numerous reworks and fixes for the 24x7 PMU from Sukadev Bhattiprolu.

 - Small patch to enable the hard lockup detector from Anton Blanchard.

 - Fix from Dave Olson for missing L2 cache information on some CPUs.

 - Some fixes from Michael Ellerman to get Cell machines booting again.

 - Freescale updates from Scott: Highlights include BMan device tree
   nodes, an MSI erratum workaround, a couple minor performance
   improvements, config updates, and misc fixes/cleanup.

* tag 'powerpc-4.1-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mpe/linux: (196 commits)
  powerpc/powermac: Fix build error seen with powermac smp builds
  powerpc/pseries: Fix compile of memory hotplug without CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE
  powerpc: Remove PPC32 code from pseries specific find_and_init_phbs()
  powerpc/cell: Fix iommu breakage caused by controller_ops change
  powerpc/eeh: Fix crash in eeh_add_device_early() on Cell
  powerpc/perf: Cap 64bit userspace backtraces to PERF_MAX_STACK_DEPTH
  powerpc/perf/hv-24x7: Fail 24x7 initcall if create_events_from_catalog() fails
  powerpc/pseries: Correct memory hotplug locking
  powerpc: Fix missing L2 cache size in /sys/devices/system/cpu
  powerpc: Add ppc64 hard lockup detector support
  oprofile: Disable oprofile NMI timer on ppc64
  powerpc/perf/hv-24x7: Add missing put_cpu_var()
  powerpc/perf/hv-24x7: Break up single_24x7_request
  powerpc/perf/hv-24x7: Define update_event_count()
  powerpc/perf/hv-24x7: Whitespace cleanup
  powerpc/perf/hv-24x7: Define add_event_to_24x7_request()
  powerpc/perf/hv-24x7: Rename hv_24x7_event_update
  powerpc/perf/hv-24x7: Move debug prints to separate function
  powerpc/perf/hv-24x7: Drop event_24x7_request()
  powerpc/perf/hv-24x7: Use pr_devel() to log message
  ...

Conflicts:
	tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/Makefile
	tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/tm/Makefile
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Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:

 - Numerous minor fixes, cleanups etc.

 - More EEH work from Gavin to remove its dependency on device_nodes.

 - Memory hotplug implemented entirely in the kernel from Nathan
   Fontenot.

 - Removal of redundant CONFIG_PPC_OF by Kevin Hao.

 - Rewrite of VPHN parsing logic &amp; tests from Greg Kurz.

 - A fix from Nish Aravamudan to reduce memory usage by clamping
   nodes_possible_map.

 - Support for pstore on powernv from Hari Bathini.

 - Removal of old powerpc specific byte swap routines by David Gibson.

 - Fix from Vasant Hegde to prevent the flash driver telling you it was
   flashing your firmware when it wasn't.

 - Patch from Ben Herrenschmidt to add an OPAL heartbeat driver.

 - Fix for an oops causing get/put_cpu_var() imbalance in perf by Jan
   Stancek.

 - Some fixes for migration from Tyrel Datwyler.

 - A new syscall to switch the cpu endian by Michael Ellerman.

 - Large series from Wei Yang to implement SRIOV, reviewed and acked by
   Bjorn.

 - A fix for the OPAL sensor driver from Cédric Le Goater.

 - Fixes to get STRICT_MM_TYPECHECKS building again by Michael Ellerman.

 - Large series from Daniel Axtens to make our PCI hooks per PHB rather
   than per machine.

 - Small patch from Sam Bobroff to explicitly abort non-suspended
   transactions on syscalls, plus a test to exercise it.

 - Numerous reworks and fixes for the 24x7 PMU from Sukadev Bhattiprolu.

 - Small patch to enable the hard lockup detector from Anton Blanchard.

 - Fix from Dave Olson for missing L2 cache information on some CPUs.

 - Some fixes from Michael Ellerman to get Cell machines booting again.

 - Freescale updates from Scott: Highlights include BMan device tree
   nodes, an MSI erratum workaround, a couple minor performance
   improvements, config updates, and misc fixes/cleanup.

* tag 'powerpc-4.1-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mpe/linux: (196 commits)
  powerpc/powermac: Fix build error seen with powermac smp builds
  powerpc/pseries: Fix compile of memory hotplug without CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE
  powerpc: Remove PPC32 code from pseries specific find_and_init_phbs()
  powerpc/cell: Fix iommu breakage caused by controller_ops change
  powerpc/eeh: Fix crash in eeh_add_device_early() on Cell
  powerpc/perf: Cap 64bit userspace backtraces to PERF_MAX_STACK_DEPTH
  powerpc/perf/hv-24x7: Fail 24x7 initcall if create_events_from_catalog() fails
  powerpc/pseries: Correct memory hotplug locking
  powerpc: Fix missing L2 cache size in /sys/devices/system/cpu
  powerpc: Add ppc64 hard lockup detector support
  oprofile: Disable oprofile NMI timer on ppc64
  powerpc/perf/hv-24x7: Add missing put_cpu_var()
  powerpc/perf/hv-24x7: Break up single_24x7_request
  powerpc/perf/hv-24x7: Define update_event_count()
  powerpc/perf/hv-24x7: Whitespace cleanup
  powerpc/perf/hv-24x7: Define add_event_to_24x7_request()
  powerpc/perf/hv-24x7: Rename hv_24x7_event_update
  powerpc/perf/hv-24x7: Move debug prints to separate function
  powerpc/perf/hv-24x7: Drop event_24x7_request()
  powerpc/perf/hv-24x7: Use pr_devel() to log message
  ...

Conflicts:
	tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/Makefile
	tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/tm/Makefile
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2015-04-14T21:37:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-04-14T21:37:47+00:00</published>
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Pull perf changes from Ingo Molnar:
 "Core kernel changes:

   - One of the more interesting features in this cycle is the ability
     to attach eBPF programs (user-defined, sandboxed bytecode executed
     by the kernel) to kprobes.

     This allows user-defined instrumentation on a live kernel image
     that can never crash, hang or interfere with the kernel negatively.
     (Right now it's limited to root-only, but in the future we might
     allow unprivileged use as well.)

     (Alexei Starovoitov)

   - Another non-trivial feature is per event clockid support: this
     allows, amongst other things, the selection of different clock
     sources for event timestamps traced via perf.

     This feature is sought by people who'd like to merge perf generated
     events with external events that were measured with different
     clocks:

       - cluster wide profiling

       - for system wide tracing with user-space events,

       - JIT profiling events

     etc.  Matching perf tooling support is added as well, available via
     the -k, --clockid &lt;clockid&gt; parameter to perf record et al.

     (Peter Zijlstra)

  Hardware enablement kernel changes:

   - x86 Intel Processor Trace (PT) support: which is a hardware tracer
     on steroids, available on Broadwell CPUs.

     The hardware trace stream is directly output into the user-space
     ring-buffer, using the 'AUX' data format extension that was added
     to the perf core to support hardware constraints such as the
     necessity to have the tracing buffer physically contiguous.

     This patch-set was developed for two years and this is the result.
     A simple way to make use of this is to use BTS tracing, the PT
     driver emulates BTS output - available via the 'intel_bts' PMU.
     More explicit PT specific tooling support is in the works as well -
     will probably be ready by 4.2.

     (Alexander Shishkin, Peter Zijlstra)

   - x86 Intel Cache QoS Monitoring (CQM) support: this is a hardware
     feature of Intel Xeon CPUs that allows the measurement and
     allocation/partitioning of caches to individual workloads.

     These kernel changes expose the measurement side as a new PMU
     driver, which exposes various QoS related PMU events.  (The
     partitioning change is work in progress and is planned to be merged
     as a cgroup extension.)

     (Matt Fleming, Peter Zijlstra; CPU feature detection by Peter P
     Waskiewicz Jr)

   - x86 Intel Haswell LBR call stack support: this is a new Haswell
     feature that allows the hardware recording of call chains, plus
     tooling support.  To activate this feature you have to enable it
     via the new 'lbr' call-graph recording option:

        perf record --call-graph lbr
        perf report

     or:

        perf top --call-graph lbr

     This hardware feature is a lot faster than stack walk or dwarf
     based unwinding, but has some limitations:

       - It reuses the current LBR facility, so LBR call stack and
         branch record can not be enabled at the same time.

       - It is only available for user-space callchains.

     (Yan, Zheng)

   - x86 Intel Broadwell CPU support and various event constraints and
     event table fixes for earlier models.

     (Andi Kleen)

   - x86 Intel HT CPUs event scheduling workarounds.  This is a complex
     CPU bug affecting the SNB,IVB,HSW families that results in counter
     value corruption.  The mitigation code is automatically enabled and
     is transparent.

     (Maria Dimakopoulou, Stephane Eranian)

  The perf tooling side had a ton of changes in this cycle as well, so
  I'm only able to list the user visible changes here, in addition to
  the tooling changes outlined above:

  User visible changes affecting all tools:

      - Improve support of compressed kernel modules (Jiri Olsa)
      - Save DSO loading errno to better report errors (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
      - Bash completion for subcommands (Yunlong Song)
      - Add 'I' event modifier for perf_event_attr.exclude_idle bit (Jiri Olsa)
      - Support missing -f to override perf.data file ownership. (Yunlong Song)
      - Show the first event with an invalid filter (David Ahern, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)

  User visible changes in individual tools:

    'perf data':

        New tool for converting perf.data to other formats, initially
        for the CTF (Common Trace Format) from LTTng (Jiri Olsa,
        Sebastian Siewior)

    'perf diff':

        Add --kallsyms option (David Ahern)

    'perf list':

        Allow listing events with 'tracepoint' prefix (Yunlong Song)

        Sort the output of the command (Yunlong Song)

    'perf kmem':

        Respect -i option (Jiri Olsa)

        Print big numbers using thousands' group (Namhyung Kim)

        Allow -v option (Namhyung Kim)

        Fix alignment of slab result table (Namhyung Kim)

    'perf probe':

        Support multiple probes on different binaries on the same command line (Masami Hiramatsu)

        Support unnamed union/structure members data collection. (Masami Hiramatsu)

        Check kprobes blacklist when adding new events. (Masami Hiramatsu)

    'perf record':

        Teach 'perf record' about perf_event_attr.clockid (Peter Zijlstra)

        Support recording running/enabled time (Andi Kleen)

    'perf sched':

        Improve the performance of 'perf sched replay' on high CPU core count machines (Yunlong Song)

    'perf report' and 'perf top':

        Allow annotating entries in callchains in the hists browser (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)

        Indicate which callchain entries are annotated in the
        TUI hists browser (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)

        Add pid/tid filtering to 'report' and 'script' commands (David Ahern)

        Consider PERF_RECORD_ events with cpumode == 0 in 'perf top', removing one
        cause of long term memory usage buildup, i.e. not processing PERF_RECORD_EXIT
        events (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)

    'perf stat':

        Report unsupported events properly (Suzuki K. Poulose)

        Output running time and run/enabled ratio in CSV mode (Andi Kleen)

    'perf trace':

        Handle legacy syscalls tracepoints (David Ahern, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)

        Only insert blank duration bracket when tracing syscalls (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)

        Filter out the trace pid when no threads are specified (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)

        Dump stack on segfaults (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)

        No need to explicitely enable evsels for workload started from perf, let it
        be enabled via perf_event_attr.enable_on_exec, removing some events that take
        place in the 'perf trace' before a workload is really started by it.
        (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)

        Allow mixing with tracepoints and suppressing plain syscalls. (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)

  There's also been a ton of infrastructure work done, such as the
  split-out of perf's build system into tools/build/ and other changes -
  see the shortlog and changelog for details"

* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (358 commits)
  perf/x86/intel/pt: Clean up the control flow in pt_pmu_hw_init()
  perf evlist: Fix type for references to data_head/tail
  perf probe: Check the orphaned -x option
  perf probe: Support multiple probes on different binaries
  perf buildid-list: Fix segfault when show DSOs with hits
  perf tools: Fix cross-endian analysis
  perf tools: Fix error path to do closedir() when synthesizing threads
  perf tools: Fix synthesizing fork_event.ppid for non-main thread
  perf tools: Add 'I' event modifier for exclude_idle bit
  perf report: Don't call map__kmap if map is NULL.
  perf tests: Fix attr tests
  perf probe: Fix ARM 32 building error
  perf tools: Merge all perf_event_attr print functions
  perf record: Add clockid parameter
  perf sched replay: Use replay_repeat to calculate the runavg of cpu usage instead of the default value 10
  perf sched replay: Support using -f to override perf.data file ownership
  perf sched replay: Fix the EMFILE error caused by the limitation of the maximum open files
  perf sched replay: Handle the dead halt of sem_wait when create_tasks() fails for any task
  perf sched replay: Fix the segmentation fault problem caused by pr_err in threads
  perf sched replay: Realloc the memory of pid_to_task stepwise to adapt to the different pid_max configurations
  ...
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Pull perf changes from Ingo Molnar:
 "Core kernel changes:

   - One of the more interesting features in this cycle is the ability
     to attach eBPF programs (user-defined, sandboxed bytecode executed
     by the kernel) to kprobes.

     This allows user-defined instrumentation on a live kernel image
     that can never crash, hang or interfere with the kernel negatively.
     (Right now it's limited to root-only, but in the future we might
     allow unprivileged use as well.)

     (Alexei Starovoitov)

   - Another non-trivial feature is per event clockid support: this
     allows, amongst other things, the selection of different clock
     sources for event timestamps traced via perf.

     This feature is sought by people who'd like to merge perf generated
     events with external events that were measured with different
     clocks:

       - cluster wide profiling

       - for system wide tracing with user-space events,

       - JIT profiling events

     etc.  Matching perf tooling support is added as well, available via
     the -k, --clockid &lt;clockid&gt; parameter to perf record et al.

     (Peter Zijlstra)

  Hardware enablement kernel changes:

   - x86 Intel Processor Trace (PT) support: which is a hardware tracer
     on steroids, available on Broadwell CPUs.

     The hardware trace stream is directly output into the user-space
     ring-buffer, using the 'AUX' data format extension that was added
     to the perf core to support hardware constraints such as the
     necessity to have the tracing buffer physically contiguous.

     This patch-set was developed for two years and this is the result.
     A simple way to make use of this is to use BTS tracing, the PT
     driver emulates BTS output - available via the 'intel_bts' PMU.
     More explicit PT specific tooling support is in the works as well -
     will probably be ready by 4.2.

     (Alexander Shishkin, Peter Zijlstra)

   - x86 Intel Cache QoS Monitoring (CQM) support: this is a hardware
     feature of Intel Xeon CPUs that allows the measurement and
     allocation/partitioning of caches to individual workloads.

     These kernel changes expose the measurement side as a new PMU
     driver, which exposes various QoS related PMU events.  (The
     partitioning change is work in progress and is planned to be merged
     as a cgroup extension.)

     (Matt Fleming, Peter Zijlstra; CPU feature detection by Peter P
     Waskiewicz Jr)

   - x86 Intel Haswell LBR call stack support: this is a new Haswell
     feature that allows the hardware recording of call chains, plus
     tooling support.  To activate this feature you have to enable it
     via the new 'lbr' call-graph recording option:

        perf record --call-graph lbr
        perf report

     or:

        perf top --call-graph lbr

     This hardware feature is a lot faster than stack walk or dwarf
     based unwinding, but has some limitations:

       - It reuses the current LBR facility, so LBR call stack and
         branch record can not be enabled at the same time.

       - It is only available for user-space callchains.

     (Yan, Zheng)

   - x86 Intel Broadwell CPU support and various event constraints and
     event table fixes for earlier models.

     (Andi Kleen)

   - x86 Intel HT CPUs event scheduling workarounds.  This is a complex
     CPU bug affecting the SNB,IVB,HSW families that results in counter
     value corruption.  The mitigation code is automatically enabled and
     is transparent.

     (Maria Dimakopoulou, Stephane Eranian)

  The perf tooling side had a ton of changes in this cycle as well, so
  I'm only able to list the user visible changes here, in addition to
  the tooling changes outlined above:

  User visible changes affecting all tools:

      - Improve support of compressed kernel modules (Jiri Olsa)
      - Save DSO loading errno to better report errors (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
      - Bash completion for subcommands (Yunlong Song)
      - Add 'I' event modifier for perf_event_attr.exclude_idle bit (Jiri Olsa)
      - Support missing -f to override perf.data file ownership. (Yunlong Song)
      - Show the first event with an invalid filter (David Ahern, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)

  User visible changes in individual tools:

    'perf data':

        New tool for converting perf.data to other formats, initially
        for the CTF (Common Trace Format) from LTTng (Jiri Olsa,
        Sebastian Siewior)

    'perf diff':

        Add --kallsyms option (David Ahern)

    'perf list':

        Allow listing events with 'tracepoint' prefix (Yunlong Song)

        Sort the output of the command (Yunlong Song)

    'perf kmem':

        Respect -i option (Jiri Olsa)

        Print big numbers using thousands' group (Namhyung Kim)

        Allow -v option (Namhyung Kim)

        Fix alignment of slab result table (Namhyung Kim)

    'perf probe':

        Support multiple probes on different binaries on the same command line (Masami Hiramatsu)

        Support unnamed union/structure members data collection. (Masami Hiramatsu)

        Check kprobes blacklist when adding new events. (Masami Hiramatsu)

    'perf record':

        Teach 'perf record' about perf_event_attr.clockid (Peter Zijlstra)

        Support recording running/enabled time (Andi Kleen)

    'perf sched':

        Improve the performance of 'perf sched replay' on high CPU core count machines (Yunlong Song)

    'perf report' and 'perf top':

        Allow annotating entries in callchains in the hists browser (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)

        Indicate which callchain entries are annotated in the
        TUI hists browser (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)

        Add pid/tid filtering to 'report' and 'script' commands (David Ahern)

        Consider PERF_RECORD_ events with cpumode == 0 in 'perf top', removing one
        cause of long term memory usage buildup, i.e. not processing PERF_RECORD_EXIT
        events (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)

    'perf stat':

        Report unsupported events properly (Suzuki K. Poulose)

        Output running time and run/enabled ratio in CSV mode (Andi Kleen)

    'perf trace':

        Handle legacy syscalls tracepoints (David Ahern, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)

        Only insert blank duration bracket when tracing syscalls (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)

        Filter out the trace pid when no threads are specified (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)

        Dump stack on segfaults (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)

        No need to explicitely enable evsels for workload started from perf, let it
        be enabled via perf_event_attr.enable_on_exec, removing some events that take
        place in the 'perf trace' before a workload is really started by it.
        (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)

        Allow mixing with tracepoints and suppressing plain syscalls. (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)

  There's also been a ton of infrastructure work done, such as the
  split-out of perf's build system into tools/build/ and other changes -
  see the shortlog and changelog for details"

* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (358 commits)
  perf/x86/intel/pt: Clean up the control flow in pt_pmu_hw_init()
  perf evlist: Fix type for references to data_head/tail
  perf probe: Check the orphaned -x option
  perf probe: Support multiple probes on different binaries
  perf buildid-list: Fix segfault when show DSOs with hits
  perf tools: Fix cross-endian analysis
  perf tools: Fix error path to do closedir() when synthesizing threads
  perf tools: Fix synthesizing fork_event.ppid for non-main thread
  perf tools: Add 'I' event modifier for exclude_idle bit
  perf report: Don't call map__kmap if map is NULL.
  perf tests: Fix attr tests
  perf probe: Fix ARM 32 building error
  perf tools: Merge all perf_event_attr print functions
  perf record: Add clockid parameter
  perf sched replay: Use replay_repeat to calculate the runavg of cpu usage instead of the default value 10
  perf sched replay: Support using -f to override perf.data file ownership
  perf sched replay: Fix the EMFILE error caused by the limitation of the maximum open files
  perf sched replay: Handle the dead halt of sem_wait when create_tasks() fails for any task
  perf sched replay: Fix the segmentation fault problem caused by pr_err in threads
  perf sched replay: Realloc the memory of pid_to_task stepwise to adapt to the different pid_max configurations
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial</title>
<updated>2015-04-14T16:50:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-04-14T16:50:27+00:00</published>
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Pull trivial tree from Jiri Kosina:
 "Usual trivial tree updates.  Nothing outstanding -- mostly printk()
  and comment fixes and unused identifier removals"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial:
  goldfish: goldfish_tty_probe() is not using 'i' any more
  powerpc: Fix comment in smu.h
  qla2xxx: Fix printks in ql_log message
  lib: correct link to the original source for div64_u64
  si2168, tda10071, m88ds3103: Fix firmware wording
  usb: storage: Fix printk in isd200_log_config()
  qla2xxx: Fix printk in qla25xx_setup_mode
  init/main: fix reset_device comment
  ipwireless: missing assignment
  goldfish: remove unreachable line of code
  coredump: Fix do_coredump() comment
  stacktrace.h: remove duplicate declaration task_struct
  smpboot.h: Remove unused function prototype
  treewide: Fix typo in printk messages
  treewide: Fix typo in printk messages
  mod_devicetable: fix comment for match_flags
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Pull trivial tree from Jiri Kosina:
 "Usual trivial tree updates.  Nothing outstanding -- mostly printk()
  and comment fixes and unused identifier removals"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial:
  goldfish: goldfish_tty_probe() is not using 'i' any more
  powerpc: Fix comment in smu.h
  qla2xxx: Fix printks in ql_log message
  lib: correct link to the original source for div64_u64
  si2168, tda10071, m88ds3103: Fix firmware wording
  usb: storage: Fix printk in isd200_log_config()
  qla2xxx: Fix printk in qla25xx_setup_mode
  init/main: fix reset_device comment
  ipwireless: missing assignment
  goldfish: remove unreachable line of code
  coredump: Fix do_coredump() comment
  stacktrace.h: remove duplicate declaration task_struct
  smpboot.h: Remove unused function prototype
  treewide: Fix typo in printk messages
  treewide: Fix typo in printk messages
  mod_devicetable: fix comment for match_flags
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<title>powerpc/perf: Cap 64bit userspace backtraces to PERF_MAX_STACK_DEPTH</title>
<updated>2015-04-14T06:21:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Anton Blanchard</name>
<email>anton@samba.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-04-13T21:51:03+00:00</published>
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We cap 32bit userspace backtraces to PERF_MAX_STACK_DEPTH
(currently 127), but we forgot to do the same for 64bit backtraces.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard &lt;anton@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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We cap 32bit userspace backtraces to PERF_MAX_STACK_DEPTH
(currently 127), but we forgot to do the same for 64bit backtraces.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard &lt;anton@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc/perf/hv-24x7: Fail 24x7 initcall if create_events_from_catalog() fails</title>
<updated>2015-04-14T03:19:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Li Zhong</name>
<email>zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-04-13T07:48:37+00:00</published>
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As Michael pointed out, create_events_from_catalog() fails when we
either have:
 - a kernel bug
 - some sort of hypervisor misconfiguration
 - ENOMEM

In all the above cases, we can also fail 24x7 initcall.

For hypervisor errors, EIO is used so there is something reported
in dmesg.

Signed-off-by: Li Zhong &lt;zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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As Michael pointed out, create_events_from_catalog() fails when we
either have:
 - a kernel bug
 - some sort of hypervisor misconfiguration
 - ENOMEM

In all the above cases, we can also fail 24x7 initcall.

For hypervisor errors, EIO is used so there is something reported
in dmesg.

Signed-off-by: Li Zhong &lt;zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc/perf/hv-24x7: Add missing put_cpu_var()</title>
<updated>2015-04-11T10:49:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sukadev Bhattiprolu</name>
<email>sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-02-17T19:14:36+00:00</published>
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Add missing put_cpu_var() for 24x7 requests. This went missing in
commit f34b6c7 (3.18-rc3).

Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu &lt;sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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Add missing put_cpu_var() for 24x7 requests. This went missing in
commit f34b6c7 (3.18-rc3).

Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu &lt;sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/perf/hv-24x7: Break up single_24x7_request</title>
<updated>2015-04-11T10:49:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sukadev Bhattiprolu</name>
<email>sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-03-31T01:53:47+00:00</published>
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Break up the function single_24x7_request() into smaller functions.
This would later enable us to "prepare" a multi-event request
buffer and then submit a single hcall for several events.

Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu &lt;sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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Break up the function single_24x7_request() into smaller functions.
This would later enable us to "prepare" a multi-event request
buffer and then submit a single hcall for several events.

Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu &lt;sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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