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<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>percpu: make this_cpu_generic_read() atomic w.r.t. interrupts</title>
<updated>2017-09-26T14:37:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mark Rutland</name>
<email>mark.rutland@arm.com</email>
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<published>2017-09-26T11:41:52+00:00</published>
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As raw_cpu_generic_read() is a plain read from a raw_cpu_ptr() address,
it's possible (albeit unlikely) that the compiler will split the access
across multiple instructions.

In this_cpu_generic_read() we disable preemption but not interrupts
before calling raw_cpu_generic_read(). Thus, an interrupt could be taken
in the middle of the split load instructions. If a this_cpu_write() or
RMW this_cpu_*() op is made to the same variable in the interrupt
handling path, this_cpu_read() will return a torn value.

For native word types, we can avoid tearing using READ_ONCE(), but this
won't work in all cases (e.g. 64-bit types on most 32-bit platforms).
This patch reworks this_cpu_generic_read() to use READ_ONCE() where
possible, otherwise falling back to disabling interrupts.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Pranith Kumar &lt;bobby.prani@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
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As raw_cpu_generic_read() is a plain read from a raw_cpu_ptr() address,
it's possible (albeit unlikely) that the compiler will split the access
across multiple instructions.

In this_cpu_generic_read() we disable preemption but not interrupts
before calling raw_cpu_generic_read(). Thus, an interrupt could be taken
in the middle of the split load instructions. If a this_cpu_write() or
RMW this_cpu_*() op is made to the same variable in the interrupt
handling path, this_cpu_read() will return a torn value.

For native word types, we can avoid tearing using READ_ONCE(), but this
won't work in all cases (e.g. 64-bit types on most 32-bit platforms).
This patch reworks this_cpu_generic_read() to use READ_ONCE() where
possible, otherwise falling back to disabling interrupts.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Pranith Kumar &lt;bobby.prani@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'work.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs</title>
<updated>2017-09-15T03:01:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-09-15T03:01:41+00:00</published>
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Pull misc leftovers from Al Viro.

* 'work.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  fix the __user misannotations in asm-generic get_user/put_user
  fput: Don't reinvent the wheel but use existing llist API
  namespace.c: Don't reinvent the wheel but use existing llist API
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Pull misc leftovers from Al Viro.

* 'work.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  fix the __user misannotations in asm-generic get_user/put_user
  fput: Don't reinvent the wheel but use existing llist API
  namespace.c: Don't reinvent the wheel but use existing llist API
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'for-linus-20170904' of git://git.infradead.org/linux-mtd</title>
<updated>2017-09-09T21:48:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-09-09T21:48:21+00:00</published>
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Pull MTD updates from Boris Brezillon:
 "General updates:
   - Constify pci_device_id in various drivers
   - Constify device_type
   - Remove pad control code from the Gemini driver
   - Use %pOF to print OF node full_name
   - Various fixes in the physmap_of driver
   - Remove unused vars in mtdswap
   - Check devm_kzalloc() return value in the spear_smi driver
   - Check clk_prepare_enable() return code in the st_spi_fsm driver
   - Create per MTD device debugfs enties

  NAND updates, from Boris Brezillon:
   - Fix memory leaks in the core
   - Remove unused NAND locking support
   - Rename nand.h into rawnand.h (preparing support for spi NANDs)
   - Use NAND_MAX_ID_LEN where appropriate
   - Fix support for 20nm Hynix chips
   - Fix support for Samsung and Hynix SLC NANDs
   - Various cleanup, improvements and fixes in the qcom driver
   - Fixes for bugs detected by various static code analysis tools
   - Fix mxc ooblayout definition
   - Add a new part_parsers to tmio and sharpsl platform data in order
     to define a custom list of partition parsers
   - Request the reset line in exclusive mode in the sunxi driver
   - Fix a build error in the orion-nand driver when compiled for ARMv4
   - Allow 64-bit mvebu platforms to select the PXA3XX driver

  SPI NOR updates, from Cyrille Pitchen and Marek Vasut:
   - add support to the JEDEC JESD216B specification (SFDP tables).
   - add support to the Intel Denverton SPI flash controller.
   - fix error recovery for Spansion/Cypress SPI NOR memories.
   - fix 4-byte address management for the Aspeed SPI controller.
   - add support to some Microchip SST26 memory parts
   - remove unneeded pinctrl header Write a message for tag:"

* tag 'for-linus-20170904' of git://git.infradead.org/linux-mtd: (74 commits)
  mtd: nand: complain loudly when chip-&gt;bits_per_cell is not correctly initialized
  mtd: nand: make Samsung SLC NAND usable again
  mtd: nand: tmio: Register partitions using the parsers
  mfd: tmio: Add partition parsers platform data
  mtd: nand: sharpsl: Register partitions using the parsers
  mtd: nand: sharpsl: Add partition parsers platform data
  mtd: nand: qcom: Support for IPQ8074 QPIC NAND controller
  mtd: nand: qcom: support for IPQ4019 QPIC NAND controller
  dt-bindings: qcom_nandc: IPQ8074 QPIC NAND documentation
  dt-bindings: qcom_nandc: IPQ4019 QPIC NAND documentation
  dt-bindings: qcom_nandc: fix the ipq806x device tree example
  mtd: nand: qcom: support for different DEV_CMD register offsets
  mtd: nand: qcom: QPIC data descriptors handling
  mtd: nand: qcom: enable BAM or ADM mode
  mtd: nand: qcom: erased codeword detection configuration
  mtd: nand: qcom: support for read location registers
  mtd: nand: qcom: support for passing flags in DMA helper functions
  mtd: nand: qcom: add BAM DMA descriptor handling
  mtd: nand: qcom: allocate BAM transaction
  mtd: nand: qcom: DMA mapping support for register read buffer
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Pull MTD updates from Boris Brezillon:
 "General updates:
   - Constify pci_device_id in various drivers
   - Constify device_type
   - Remove pad control code from the Gemini driver
   - Use %pOF to print OF node full_name
   - Various fixes in the physmap_of driver
   - Remove unused vars in mtdswap
   - Check devm_kzalloc() return value in the spear_smi driver
   - Check clk_prepare_enable() return code in the st_spi_fsm driver
   - Create per MTD device debugfs enties

  NAND updates, from Boris Brezillon:
   - Fix memory leaks in the core
   - Remove unused NAND locking support
   - Rename nand.h into rawnand.h (preparing support for spi NANDs)
   - Use NAND_MAX_ID_LEN where appropriate
   - Fix support for 20nm Hynix chips
   - Fix support for Samsung and Hynix SLC NANDs
   - Various cleanup, improvements and fixes in the qcom driver
   - Fixes for bugs detected by various static code analysis tools
   - Fix mxc ooblayout definition
   - Add a new part_parsers to tmio and sharpsl platform data in order
     to define a custom list of partition parsers
   - Request the reset line in exclusive mode in the sunxi driver
   - Fix a build error in the orion-nand driver when compiled for ARMv4
   - Allow 64-bit mvebu platforms to select the PXA3XX driver

  SPI NOR updates, from Cyrille Pitchen and Marek Vasut:
   - add support to the JEDEC JESD216B specification (SFDP tables).
   - add support to the Intel Denverton SPI flash controller.
   - fix error recovery for Spansion/Cypress SPI NOR memories.
   - fix 4-byte address management for the Aspeed SPI controller.
   - add support to some Microchip SST26 memory parts
   - remove unneeded pinctrl header Write a message for tag:"

* tag 'for-linus-20170904' of git://git.infradead.org/linux-mtd: (74 commits)
  mtd: nand: complain loudly when chip-&gt;bits_per_cell is not correctly initialized
  mtd: nand: make Samsung SLC NAND usable again
  mtd: nand: tmio: Register partitions using the parsers
  mfd: tmio: Add partition parsers platform data
  mtd: nand: sharpsl: Register partitions using the parsers
  mtd: nand: sharpsl: Add partition parsers platform data
  mtd: nand: qcom: Support for IPQ8074 QPIC NAND controller
  mtd: nand: qcom: support for IPQ4019 QPIC NAND controller
  dt-bindings: qcom_nandc: IPQ8074 QPIC NAND documentation
  dt-bindings: qcom_nandc: IPQ4019 QPIC NAND documentation
  dt-bindings: qcom_nandc: fix the ipq806x device tree example
  mtd: nand: qcom: support for different DEV_CMD register offsets
  mtd: nand: qcom: QPIC data descriptors handling
  mtd: nand: qcom: enable BAM or ADM mode
  mtd: nand: qcom: erased codeword detection configuration
  mtd: nand: qcom: support for read location registers
  mtd: nand: qcom: support for passing flags in DMA helper functions
  mtd: nand: qcom: add BAM DMA descriptor handling
  mtd: nand: qcom: allocate BAM transaction
  mtd: nand: qcom: DMA mapping support for register read buffer
  ...
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<entry>
<title>mm: soft-dirty: keep soft-dirty bits over thp migration</title>
<updated>2017-09-09T01:26:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Naoya Horiguchi</name>
<email>n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-09-08T23:11:04+00:00</published>
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Soft dirty bit is designed to keep tracked over page migration.  This
patch makes it work in the same manner for thp migration too.

Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi &lt;n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Zi Yan &lt;zi.yan@cs.rutgers.edu&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Anshuman Khandual &lt;khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@intel.com&gt;
Cc: David Nellans &lt;dnellans@nvidia.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@techsingularity.net&gt;
Cc: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Soft dirty bit is designed to keep tracked over page migration.  This
patch makes it work in the same manner for thp migration too.

Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi &lt;n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Zi Yan &lt;zi.yan@cs.rutgers.edu&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Anshuman Khandual &lt;khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@intel.com&gt;
Cc: David Nellans &lt;dnellans@nvidia.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@techsingularity.net&gt;
Cc: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>mm: thp: check pmd migration entry in common path</title>
<updated>2017-09-09T01:26:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Zi Yan</name>
<email>zi.yan@cs.rutgers.edu</email>
</author>
<published>2017-09-08T23:11:01+00:00</published>
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When THP migration is being used, memory management code needs to handle
pmd migration entries properly.  This patch uses !pmd_present() or
is_swap_pmd() (depending on whether pmd_none() needs separate code or
not) to check pmd migration entries at the places where a pmd entry is
present.

Since pmd-related code uses split_huge_page(), split_huge_pmd(),
pmd_trans_huge(), pmd_trans_unstable(), or
pmd_none_or_trans_huge_or_clear_bad(), this patch:

1. adds pmd migration entry split code in split_huge_pmd(),

2. takes care of pmd migration entries whenever pmd_trans_huge() is present,

3. makes pmd_none_or_trans_huge_or_clear_bad() pmd migration entry aware.

Since split_huge_page() uses split_huge_pmd() and pmd_trans_unstable()
is equivalent to pmd_none_or_trans_huge_or_clear_bad(), we do not change
them.

Until this commit, a pmd entry should be:
1. pointing to a pte page,
2. is_swap_pmd(),
3. pmd_trans_huge(),
4. pmd_devmap(), or
5. pmd_none().

Signed-off-by: Zi Yan &lt;zi.yan@cs.rutgers.edu&gt;
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Anshuman Khandual &lt;khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@intel.com&gt;
Cc: David Nellans &lt;dnellans@nvidia.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@techsingularity.net&gt;
Cc: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi &lt;n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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When THP migration is being used, memory management code needs to handle
pmd migration entries properly.  This patch uses !pmd_present() or
is_swap_pmd() (depending on whether pmd_none() needs separate code or
not) to check pmd migration entries at the places where a pmd entry is
present.

Since pmd-related code uses split_huge_page(), split_huge_pmd(),
pmd_trans_huge(), pmd_trans_unstable(), or
pmd_none_or_trans_huge_or_clear_bad(), this patch:

1. adds pmd migration entry split code in split_huge_pmd(),

2. takes care of pmd migration entries whenever pmd_trans_huge() is present,

3. makes pmd_none_or_trans_huge_or_clear_bad() pmd migration entry aware.

Since split_huge_page() uses split_huge_pmd() and pmd_trans_unstable()
is equivalent to pmd_none_or_trans_huge_or_clear_bad(), we do not change
them.

Until this commit, a pmd entry should be:
1. pointing to a pte page,
2. is_swap_pmd(),
3. pmd_trans_huge(),
4. pmd_devmap(), or
5. pmd_none().

Signed-off-by: Zi Yan &lt;zi.yan@cs.rutgers.edu&gt;
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Anshuman Khandual &lt;khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@intel.com&gt;
Cc: David Nellans &lt;dnellans@nvidia.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@techsingularity.net&gt;
Cc: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi &lt;n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'x86-mm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2017-09-04T19:21:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-09-04T19:21:28+00:00</published>
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Pull x86 mm changes from Ingo Molnar:
 "PCID support, 5-level paging support, Secure Memory Encryption support

  The main changes in this cycle are support for three new, complex
  hardware features of x86 CPUs:

   - Add 5-level paging support, which is a new hardware feature on
     upcoming Intel CPUs allowing up to 128 PB of virtual address space
     and 4 PB of physical RAM space - a 512-fold increase over the old
     limits. (Supercomputers of the future forecasting hurricanes on an
     ever warming planet can certainly make good use of more RAM.)

     Many of the necessary changes went upstream in previous cycles,
     v4.14 is the first kernel that can enable 5-level paging.

     This feature is activated via CONFIG_X86_5LEVEL=y - disabled by
     default.

     (By Kirill A. Shutemov)

   - Add 'encrypted memory' support, which is a new hardware feature on
     upcoming AMD CPUs ('Secure Memory Encryption', SME) allowing system
     RAM to be encrypted and decrypted (mostly) transparently by the
     CPU, with a little help from the kernel to transition to/from
     encrypted RAM. Such RAM should be more secure against various
     attacks like RAM access via the memory bus and should make the
     radio signature of memory bus traffic harder to intercept (and
     decrypt) as well.

     This feature is activated via CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT=y - disabled
     by default.

     (By Tom Lendacky)

   - Enable PCID optimized TLB flushing on newer Intel CPUs: PCID is a
     hardware feature that attaches an address space tag to TLB entries
     and thus allows to skip TLB flushing in many cases, even if we
     switch mm's.

     (By Andy Lutomirski)

  All three of these features were in the works for a long time, and
  it's coincidence of the three independent development paths that they
  are all enabled in v4.14 at once"

* 'x86-mm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (65 commits)
  x86/mm: Enable RCU based page table freeing (CONFIG_HAVE_RCU_TABLE_FREE=y)
  x86/mm: Use pr_cont() in dump_pagetable()
  x86/mm: Fix SME encryption stack ptr handling
  kvm/x86: Avoid clearing the C-bit in rsvd_bits()
  x86/CPU: Align CR3 defines
  x86/mm, mm/hwpoison: Clear PRESENT bit for kernel 1:1 mappings of poison pages
  acpi, x86/mm: Remove encryption mask from ACPI page protection type
  x86/mm, kexec: Fix memory corruption with SME on successive kexecs
  x86/mm/pkeys: Fix typo in Documentation/x86/protection-keys.txt
  x86/mm/dump_pagetables: Speed up page tables dump for CONFIG_KASAN=y
  x86/mm: Implement PCID based optimization: try to preserve old TLB entries using PCID
  x86: Enable 5-level paging support via CONFIG_X86_5LEVEL=y
  x86/mm: Allow userspace have mappings above 47-bit
  x86/mm: Prepare to expose larger address space to userspace
  x86/mpx: Do not allow MPX if we have mappings above 47-bit
  x86/mm: Rename tasksize_32bit/64bit to task_size_32bit/64bit()
  x86/xen: Redefine XEN_ELFNOTE_INIT_P2M using PUD_SIZE * PTRS_PER_PUD
  x86/mm/dump_pagetables: Fix printout of p4d level
  x86/mm/dump_pagetables: Generalize address normalization
  x86/boot: Fix memremap() related build failure
  ...
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Pull x86 mm changes from Ingo Molnar:
 "PCID support, 5-level paging support, Secure Memory Encryption support

  The main changes in this cycle are support for three new, complex
  hardware features of x86 CPUs:

   - Add 5-level paging support, which is a new hardware feature on
     upcoming Intel CPUs allowing up to 128 PB of virtual address space
     and 4 PB of physical RAM space - a 512-fold increase over the old
     limits. (Supercomputers of the future forecasting hurricanes on an
     ever warming planet can certainly make good use of more RAM.)

     Many of the necessary changes went upstream in previous cycles,
     v4.14 is the first kernel that can enable 5-level paging.

     This feature is activated via CONFIG_X86_5LEVEL=y - disabled by
     default.

     (By Kirill A. Shutemov)

   - Add 'encrypted memory' support, which is a new hardware feature on
     upcoming AMD CPUs ('Secure Memory Encryption', SME) allowing system
     RAM to be encrypted and decrypted (mostly) transparently by the
     CPU, with a little help from the kernel to transition to/from
     encrypted RAM. Such RAM should be more secure against various
     attacks like RAM access via the memory bus and should make the
     radio signature of memory bus traffic harder to intercept (and
     decrypt) as well.

     This feature is activated via CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT=y - disabled
     by default.

     (By Tom Lendacky)

   - Enable PCID optimized TLB flushing on newer Intel CPUs: PCID is a
     hardware feature that attaches an address space tag to TLB entries
     and thus allows to skip TLB flushing in many cases, even if we
     switch mm's.

     (By Andy Lutomirski)

  All three of these features were in the works for a long time, and
  it's coincidence of the three independent development paths that they
  are all enabled in v4.14 at once"

* 'x86-mm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (65 commits)
  x86/mm: Enable RCU based page table freeing (CONFIG_HAVE_RCU_TABLE_FREE=y)
  x86/mm: Use pr_cont() in dump_pagetable()
  x86/mm: Fix SME encryption stack ptr handling
  kvm/x86: Avoid clearing the C-bit in rsvd_bits()
  x86/CPU: Align CR3 defines
  x86/mm, mm/hwpoison: Clear PRESENT bit for kernel 1:1 mappings of poison pages
  acpi, x86/mm: Remove encryption mask from ACPI page protection type
  x86/mm, kexec: Fix memory corruption with SME on successive kexecs
  x86/mm/pkeys: Fix typo in Documentation/x86/protection-keys.txt
  x86/mm/dump_pagetables: Speed up page tables dump for CONFIG_KASAN=y
  x86/mm: Implement PCID based optimization: try to preserve old TLB entries using PCID
  x86: Enable 5-level paging support via CONFIG_X86_5LEVEL=y
  x86/mm: Allow userspace have mappings above 47-bit
  x86/mm: Prepare to expose larger address space to userspace
  x86/mpx: Do not allow MPX if we have mappings above 47-bit
  x86/mm: Rename tasksize_32bit/64bit to task_size_32bit/64bit()
  x86/xen: Redefine XEN_ELFNOTE_INIT_P2M using PUD_SIZE * PTRS_PER_PUD
  x86/mm/dump_pagetables: Fix printout of p4d level
  x86/mm/dump_pagetables: Generalize address normalization
  x86/boot: Fix memremap() related build failure
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2017-09-04T18:52:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-09-04T18:52:29+00:00</published>
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Pull locking updates from Ingo Molnar:

 - Add 'cross-release' support to lockdep, which allows APIs like
   completions, where it's not the 'owner' who releases the lock, to be
   tracked. It's all activated automatically under
   CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING=y.

 - Clean up (restructure) the x86 atomics op implementation to be more
   readable, in preparation of KASAN annotations. (Dmitry Vyukov)

 - Fix static keys (Paolo Bonzini)

 - Add killable versions of down_read() et al (Kirill Tkhai)

 - Rework and fix jump_label locking (Marc Zyngier, Paolo Bonzini)

 - Rework (and fix) tlb_flush_pending() barriers (Peter Zijlstra)

 - Remove smp_mb__before_spinlock() and convert its usages, introduce
   smp_mb__after_spinlock() (Peter Zijlstra)

* 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (56 commits)
  locking/lockdep/selftests: Fix mixed read-write ABBA tests
  sched/completion: Avoid unnecessary stack allocation for COMPLETION_INITIALIZER_ONSTACK()
  acpi/nfit: Fix COMPLETION_INITIALIZER_ONSTACK() abuse
  locking/pvqspinlock: Relax cmpxchg's to improve performance on some architectures
  smp: Avoid using two cache lines for struct call_single_data
  locking/lockdep: Untangle xhlock history save/restore from task independence
  locking/refcounts, x86/asm: Disable CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_REFCOUNT for the time being
  futex: Remove duplicated code and fix undefined behaviour
  Documentation/locking/atomic: Finish the document...
  locking/lockdep: Fix workqueue crossrelease annotation
  workqueue/lockdep: 'Fix' flush_work() annotation
  locking/lockdep/selftests: Add mixed read-write ABBA tests
  mm, locking/barriers: Clarify tlb_flush_pending() barriers
  locking/lockdep: Make CONFIG_LOCKDEP_CROSSRELEASE and CONFIG_LOCKDEP_COMPLETIONS truly non-interactive
  locking/lockdep: Explicitly initialize wq_barrier::done::map
  locking/lockdep: Rename CONFIG_LOCKDEP_COMPLETE to CONFIG_LOCKDEP_COMPLETIONS
  locking/lockdep: Reword title of LOCKDEP_CROSSRELEASE config
  locking/lockdep: Make CONFIG_LOCKDEP_CROSSRELEASE part of CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING
  locking/refcounts, x86/asm: Implement fast refcount overflow protection
  locking/lockdep: Fix the rollback and overwrite detection logic in crossrelease
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Pull locking updates from Ingo Molnar:

 - Add 'cross-release' support to lockdep, which allows APIs like
   completions, where it's not the 'owner' who releases the lock, to be
   tracked. It's all activated automatically under
   CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING=y.

 - Clean up (restructure) the x86 atomics op implementation to be more
   readable, in preparation of KASAN annotations. (Dmitry Vyukov)

 - Fix static keys (Paolo Bonzini)

 - Add killable versions of down_read() et al (Kirill Tkhai)

 - Rework and fix jump_label locking (Marc Zyngier, Paolo Bonzini)

 - Rework (and fix) tlb_flush_pending() barriers (Peter Zijlstra)

 - Remove smp_mb__before_spinlock() and convert its usages, introduce
   smp_mb__after_spinlock() (Peter Zijlstra)

* 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (56 commits)
  locking/lockdep/selftests: Fix mixed read-write ABBA tests
  sched/completion: Avoid unnecessary stack allocation for COMPLETION_INITIALIZER_ONSTACK()
  acpi/nfit: Fix COMPLETION_INITIALIZER_ONSTACK() abuse
  locking/pvqspinlock: Relax cmpxchg's to improve performance on some architectures
  smp: Avoid using two cache lines for struct call_single_data
  locking/lockdep: Untangle xhlock history save/restore from task independence
  locking/refcounts, x86/asm: Disable CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_REFCOUNT for the time being
  futex: Remove duplicated code and fix undefined behaviour
  Documentation/locking/atomic: Finish the document...
  locking/lockdep: Fix workqueue crossrelease annotation
  workqueue/lockdep: 'Fix' flush_work() annotation
  locking/lockdep/selftests: Add mixed read-write ABBA tests
  mm, locking/barriers: Clarify tlb_flush_pending() barriers
  locking/lockdep: Make CONFIG_LOCKDEP_CROSSRELEASE and CONFIG_LOCKDEP_COMPLETIONS truly non-interactive
  locking/lockdep: Explicitly initialize wq_barrier::done::map
  locking/lockdep: Rename CONFIG_LOCKDEP_COMPLETE to CONFIG_LOCKDEP_COMPLETIONS
  locking/lockdep: Reword title of LOCKDEP_CROSSRELEASE config
  locking/lockdep: Make CONFIG_LOCKDEP_CROSSRELEASE part of CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING
  locking/refcounts, x86/asm: Implement fast refcount overflow protection
  locking/lockdep: Fix the rollback and overwrite detection logic in crossrelease
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2017-09-04T16:52:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-09-04T16:52:57+00:00</published>
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Pull x86 asm updates from Ingo Molnar:

 - Introduce the ORC unwinder, which can be enabled via
   CONFIG_ORC_UNWINDER=y.

   The ORC unwinder is a lightweight, Linux kernel specific debuginfo
   implementation, which aims to be DWARF done right for unwinding.
   Objtool is used to generate the ORC unwinder tables during build, so
   the data format is flexible and kernel internal: there's no
   dependency on debuginfo created by an external toolchain.

   The ORC unwinder is almost two orders of magnitude faster than the
   (out of tree) DWARF unwinder - which is important for perf call graph
   profiling. It is also significantly simpler and is coded defensively:
   there has not been a single ORC related kernel crash so far, even
   with early versions. (knock on wood!)

   But the main advantage is that enabling the ORC unwinder allows
   CONFIG_FRAME_POINTERS to be turned off - which speeds up the kernel
   measurably:

   With frame pointers disabled, GCC does not have to add frame pointer
   instrumentation code to every function in the kernel. The kernel's
   .text size decreases by about 3.2%, resulting in better cache
   utilization and fewer instructions executed, resulting in a broad
   kernel-wide speedup. Average speedup of system calls should be
   roughly in the 1-3% range - measurements by Mel Gorman [1] have shown
   a speedup of 5-10% for some function execution intense workloads.

   The main cost of the unwinder is that the unwinder data has to be
   stored in RAM: the memory cost is 2-4MB of RAM, depending on kernel
   config - which is a modest cost on modern x86 systems.

   Given how young the ORC unwinder code is it's not enabled by default
   - but given the performance advantages the plan is to eventually make
   it the default unwinder on x86.

   See Documentation/x86/orc-unwinder.txt for more details.

 - Remove lguest support: its intended role was that of a temporary
   proof of concept for virtualization, plus its removal will enable the
   reduction (removal) of the paravirt API as well, so Rusty agreed to
   its removal. (Juergen Gross)

 - Clean up and fix FSGS related functionality (Andy Lutomirski)

 - Clean up IO access APIs (Andy Shevchenko)

 - Enhance the symbol namespace (Jiri Slaby)

* 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (47 commits)
  objtool: Handle GCC stack pointer adjustment bug
  x86/entry/64: Use ENTRY() instead of ALIGN+GLOBAL for stub32_clone()
  x86/fpu/math-emu: Add ENDPROC to functions
  x86/boot/64: Extract efi_pe_entry() from startup_64()
  x86/boot/32: Extract efi_pe_entry() from startup_32()
  x86/lguest: Remove lguest support
  x86/paravirt/xen: Remove xen_patch()
  objtool: Fix objtool fallthrough detection with function padding
  x86/xen/64: Fix the reported SS and CS in SYSCALL
  objtool: Track DRAP separately from callee-saved registers
  objtool: Fix validate_branch() return codes
  x86: Clarify/fix no-op barriers for text_poke_bp()
  x86/switch_to/64: Rewrite FS/GS switching yet again to fix AMD CPUs
  selftests/x86/fsgsbase: Test selectors 1, 2, and 3
  x86/fsgsbase/64: Report FSBASE and GSBASE correctly in core dumps
  x86/fsgsbase/64: Fully initialize FS and GS state in start_thread_common
  x86/asm: Fix UNWIND_HINT_REGS macro for older binutils
  x86/asm/32: Fix regs_get_register() on segment registers
  x86/xen/64: Rearrange the SYSCALL entries
  x86/asm/32: Remove a bunch of '&amp; 0xffff' from pt_regs segment reads
  ...
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Pull x86 asm updates from Ingo Molnar:

 - Introduce the ORC unwinder, which can be enabled via
   CONFIG_ORC_UNWINDER=y.

   The ORC unwinder is a lightweight, Linux kernel specific debuginfo
   implementation, which aims to be DWARF done right for unwinding.
   Objtool is used to generate the ORC unwinder tables during build, so
   the data format is flexible and kernel internal: there's no
   dependency on debuginfo created by an external toolchain.

   The ORC unwinder is almost two orders of magnitude faster than the
   (out of tree) DWARF unwinder - which is important for perf call graph
   profiling. It is also significantly simpler and is coded defensively:
   there has not been a single ORC related kernel crash so far, even
   with early versions. (knock on wood!)

   But the main advantage is that enabling the ORC unwinder allows
   CONFIG_FRAME_POINTERS to be turned off - which speeds up the kernel
   measurably:

   With frame pointers disabled, GCC does not have to add frame pointer
   instrumentation code to every function in the kernel. The kernel's
   .text size decreases by about 3.2%, resulting in better cache
   utilization and fewer instructions executed, resulting in a broad
   kernel-wide speedup. Average speedup of system calls should be
   roughly in the 1-3% range - measurements by Mel Gorman [1] have shown
   a speedup of 5-10% for some function execution intense workloads.

   The main cost of the unwinder is that the unwinder data has to be
   stored in RAM: the memory cost is 2-4MB of RAM, depending on kernel
   config - which is a modest cost on modern x86 systems.

   Given how young the ORC unwinder code is it's not enabled by default
   - but given the performance advantages the plan is to eventually make
   it the default unwinder on x86.

   See Documentation/x86/orc-unwinder.txt for more details.

 - Remove lguest support: its intended role was that of a temporary
   proof of concept for virtualization, plus its removal will enable the
   reduction (removal) of the paravirt API as well, so Rusty agreed to
   its removal. (Juergen Gross)

 - Clean up and fix FSGS related functionality (Andy Lutomirski)

 - Clean up IO access APIs (Andy Shevchenko)

 - Enhance the symbol namespace (Jiri Slaby)

* 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (47 commits)
  objtool: Handle GCC stack pointer adjustment bug
  x86/entry/64: Use ENTRY() instead of ALIGN+GLOBAL for stub32_clone()
  x86/fpu/math-emu: Add ENDPROC to functions
  x86/boot/64: Extract efi_pe_entry() from startup_64()
  x86/boot/32: Extract efi_pe_entry() from startup_32()
  x86/lguest: Remove lguest support
  x86/paravirt/xen: Remove xen_patch()
  objtool: Fix objtool fallthrough detection with function padding
  x86/xen/64: Fix the reported SS and CS in SYSCALL
  objtool: Track DRAP separately from callee-saved registers
  objtool: Fix validate_branch() return codes
  x86: Clarify/fix no-op barriers for text_poke_bp()
  x86/switch_to/64: Rewrite FS/GS switching yet again to fix AMD CPUs
  selftests/x86/fsgsbase: Test selectors 1, 2, and 3
  x86/fsgsbase/64: Report FSBASE and GSBASE correctly in core dumps
  x86/fsgsbase/64: Fully initialize FS and GS state in start_thread_common
  x86/asm: Fix UNWIND_HINT_REGS macro for older binutils
  x86/asm/32: Fix regs_get_register() on segment registers
  x86/xen/64: Rearrange the SYSCALL entries
  x86/asm/32: Remove a bunch of '&amp; 0xffff' from pt_regs segment reads
  ...
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<entry>
<title>fix the __user misannotations in asm-generic get_user/put_user</title>
<updated>2017-09-04T16:07:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2017-09-04T16:07:24+00:00</published>
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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>2017-09-04T15:39:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-09-04T15:39:02+00:00</published>
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Pull perf updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "Kernel side changes:

   - Add branch type profiling/tracing support. (Jin Yao)

   - Add the PERF_SAMPLE_PHYS_ADDR ABI to allow the tracing/profiling of
     physical memory addresses, where the PMU supports it. (Kan Liang)

   - Export some PMU capability details in the new
     /sys/bus/event_source/devices/cpu/caps/ sysfs directory. (Andi
     Kleen)

   - Aux data fixes and updates (Will Deacon)

   - kprobes fixes and updates (Masami Hiramatsu)

   - AMD uncore PMU driver fixes and updates (Janakarajan Natarajan)

  On the tooling side, here's a (limited!) list of highlights - there
  were many other changes that I could not list, see the shortlog and
  git history for details:

  UI improvements:

   - Implement a visual marker for fused x86 instructions in the
     annotate TUI browser, available now in 'perf report', more work
     needed to have it available as well in 'perf top' (Jin Yao)

     Further explanation from one of Jin's patches:

             │   ┌──cmpl   $0x0,argp_program_version_hook
       81.93 │   ├──je     20
             │   │  lock   cmpxchg %esi,0x38a9a4(%rip)
             │   │↓ jne    29
             │   │↓ jmp    43
       11.47 │20:└─→cmpxch %esi,0x38a999(%rip)

     That means the cmpl+je is a fused instruction pair and they should
     be considered together.

   - Record the branch type and then show statistics and info about in
     callchain entries (Jin Yao)

     Example from one of Jin's patches:

        # perf record -g -j any,save_type
        # perf report --branch-history --stdio --no-children

        38.50%  div.c:45                [.] main                    div
                |
                ---main div.c:42 (RET CROSS_2M cycles:2)
                   compute_flag div.c:28 (cycles:2)
                   compute_flag div.c:27 (RET CROSS_2M cycles:1)
                   rand rand.c:28 (cycles:1)
                   rand rand.c:28 (RET CROSS_2M cycles:1)
                   __random random.c:298 (cycles:1)
                   __random random.c:297 (COND_BWD CROSS_2M cycles:1)
                   __random random.c:295 (cycles:1)
                   __random random.c:295 (COND_BWD CROSS_2M cycles:1)
                   __random random.c:295 (cycles:1)
                   __random random.c:295 (RET CROSS_2M cycles:9)

  namespaces support:

   - Add initial support for namespaces, using setns to access files in
     namespaces, grabbing their build-ids, etc. (Krister Johansen)

  perf trace enhancements:

   - Beautify pkey_{alloc,free,mprotect} arguments in 'perf trace'
     (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)

   - Add initial 'clone' syscall args beautifier in 'perf trace'
     (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)

   - Ignore 'fd' and 'offset' args for MAP_ANONYMOUS in 'perf trace'
     (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)

   - Beautifiers for the 'cmd' arg of several ioctl types, including:
     sound, DRM, KVM, vhost virtio and perf_events. (Arnaldo Carvalho de
     Melo)

   - Add PERF_SAMPLE_CALLCHAIN and PERF_RECORD_MMAP[2] to 'perf data'
     CTF conversion, allowing CTF trace visualization tools to show
     callchains and to resolve symbols (Geneviève Bastien)

   - Beautify the fcntl syscall, which is an interesting one in the
     sense that infrastructure had to be put in place to change the
     formatters of some arguments according to the value in a previous
     one, i.e. cmd dictates how arg and the syscall return will be
     formatted. (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

  perf stat enhancements:

   - Use group read for event groups in 'perf stat', reducing overhead
     when groups are defined in the event specification, i.e. when using
     {} to enclose a list of events, asking them to be read at the same
     time, e.g.: "perf stat -e '{cycles,instructions}'" (Jiri Olsa)

  pipe mode improvements:

   - Process tracing data in 'perf annotate' pipe mode (David
     Carrillo-Cisneros)

   - Add header record types to pipe-mode, now this command:

        $ perf record -o - -e cycles sleep 1 | perf report --stdio --header

     Will show the same as in non-pipe mode, i.e. involving a perf.data
     file (David Carrillo-Cisneros)

  Vendor specific hardware event support updates/enhancements:

   - Update POWER9 vendor events tables (Sukadev Bhattiprolu)

   - Add POWER9 PMU events Sukadev (Bhattiprolu)

   - Support additional POWER8+ PVR in PMU mapfile (Shriya)

   - Add Skylake server uncore JSON vendor events (Andi Kleen)

   - Support exporting Intel PT data to sqlite3 with python perf
     scripts, this is in addition to the postgresql support that was
     already there (Adrian Hunter)"

* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (253 commits)
  perf symbols: Fix plt entry calculation for ARM and AARCH64
  perf probe: Fix kprobe blacklist checking condition
  perf/x86: Fix caps/ for !Intel
  perf/core, x86: Add PERF_SAMPLE_PHYS_ADDR
  perf/core, pt, bts: Get rid of itrace_started
  perf trace beauty: Beautify pkey_{alloc,free,mprotect} arguments
  tools headers: Sync cpu features kernel ABI headers with tooling headers
  perf tools: Pass full path of FEATURES_DUMP
  perf tools: Robustify detection of clang binary
  tools lib: Allow external definition of CC, AR and LD
  perf tools: Allow external definition of flex and bison binary names
  tools build tests: Don't hardcode gcc name
  perf report: Group stat values on global event id
  perf values: Zero value buffers
  perf values: Fix allocation check
  perf values: Fix thread index bug
  perf report: Add dump_read function
  perf record: Set read_format for inherit_stat
  perf c2c: Fix remote HITM detection for Skylake
  perf tools: Fix static build with newer toolchains
  ...
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Pull perf updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "Kernel side changes:

   - Add branch type profiling/tracing support. (Jin Yao)

   - Add the PERF_SAMPLE_PHYS_ADDR ABI to allow the tracing/profiling of
     physical memory addresses, where the PMU supports it. (Kan Liang)

   - Export some PMU capability details in the new
     /sys/bus/event_source/devices/cpu/caps/ sysfs directory. (Andi
     Kleen)

   - Aux data fixes and updates (Will Deacon)

   - kprobes fixes and updates (Masami Hiramatsu)

   - AMD uncore PMU driver fixes and updates (Janakarajan Natarajan)

  On the tooling side, here's a (limited!) list of highlights - there
  were many other changes that I could not list, see the shortlog and
  git history for details:

  UI improvements:

   - Implement a visual marker for fused x86 instructions in the
     annotate TUI browser, available now in 'perf report', more work
     needed to have it available as well in 'perf top' (Jin Yao)

     Further explanation from one of Jin's patches:

             │   ┌──cmpl   $0x0,argp_program_version_hook
       81.93 │   ├──je     20
             │   │  lock   cmpxchg %esi,0x38a9a4(%rip)
             │   │↓ jne    29
             │   │↓ jmp    43
       11.47 │20:└─→cmpxch %esi,0x38a999(%rip)

     That means the cmpl+je is a fused instruction pair and they should
     be considered together.

   - Record the branch type and then show statistics and info about in
     callchain entries (Jin Yao)

     Example from one of Jin's patches:

        # perf record -g -j any,save_type
        # perf report --branch-history --stdio --no-children

        38.50%  div.c:45                [.] main                    div
                |
                ---main div.c:42 (RET CROSS_2M cycles:2)
                   compute_flag div.c:28 (cycles:2)
                   compute_flag div.c:27 (RET CROSS_2M cycles:1)
                   rand rand.c:28 (cycles:1)
                   rand rand.c:28 (RET CROSS_2M cycles:1)
                   __random random.c:298 (cycles:1)
                   __random random.c:297 (COND_BWD CROSS_2M cycles:1)
                   __random random.c:295 (cycles:1)
                   __random random.c:295 (COND_BWD CROSS_2M cycles:1)
                   __random random.c:295 (cycles:1)
                   __random random.c:295 (RET CROSS_2M cycles:9)

  namespaces support:

   - Add initial support for namespaces, using setns to access files in
     namespaces, grabbing their build-ids, etc. (Krister Johansen)

  perf trace enhancements:

   - Beautify pkey_{alloc,free,mprotect} arguments in 'perf trace'
     (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)

   - Add initial 'clone' syscall args beautifier in 'perf trace'
     (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)

   - Ignore 'fd' and 'offset' args for MAP_ANONYMOUS in 'perf trace'
     (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)

   - Beautifiers for the 'cmd' arg of several ioctl types, including:
     sound, DRM, KVM, vhost virtio and perf_events. (Arnaldo Carvalho de
     Melo)

   - Add PERF_SAMPLE_CALLCHAIN and PERF_RECORD_MMAP[2] to 'perf data'
     CTF conversion, allowing CTF trace visualization tools to show
     callchains and to resolve symbols (Geneviève Bastien)

   - Beautify the fcntl syscall, which is an interesting one in the
     sense that infrastructure had to be put in place to change the
     formatters of some arguments according to the value in a previous
     one, i.e. cmd dictates how arg and the syscall return will be
     formatted. (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

  perf stat enhancements:

   - Use group read for event groups in 'perf stat', reducing overhead
     when groups are defined in the event specification, i.e. when using
     {} to enclose a list of events, asking them to be read at the same
     time, e.g.: "perf stat -e '{cycles,instructions}'" (Jiri Olsa)

  pipe mode improvements:

   - Process tracing data in 'perf annotate' pipe mode (David
     Carrillo-Cisneros)

   - Add header record types to pipe-mode, now this command:

        $ perf record -o - -e cycles sleep 1 | perf report --stdio --header

     Will show the same as in non-pipe mode, i.e. involving a perf.data
     file (David Carrillo-Cisneros)

  Vendor specific hardware event support updates/enhancements:

   - Update POWER9 vendor events tables (Sukadev Bhattiprolu)

   - Add POWER9 PMU events Sukadev (Bhattiprolu)

   - Support additional POWER8+ PVR in PMU mapfile (Shriya)

   - Add Skylake server uncore JSON vendor events (Andi Kleen)

   - Support exporting Intel PT data to sqlite3 with python perf
     scripts, this is in addition to the postgresql support that was
     already there (Adrian Hunter)"

* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (253 commits)
  perf symbols: Fix plt entry calculation for ARM and AARCH64
  perf probe: Fix kprobe blacklist checking condition
  perf/x86: Fix caps/ for !Intel
  perf/core, x86: Add PERF_SAMPLE_PHYS_ADDR
  perf/core, pt, bts: Get rid of itrace_started
  perf trace beauty: Beautify pkey_{alloc,free,mprotect} arguments
  tools headers: Sync cpu features kernel ABI headers with tooling headers
  perf tools: Pass full path of FEATURES_DUMP
  perf tools: Robustify detection of clang binary
  tools lib: Allow external definition of CC, AR and LD
  perf tools: Allow external definition of flex and bison binary names
  tools build tests: Don't hardcode gcc name
  perf report: Group stat values on global event id
  perf values: Zero value buffers
  perf values: Fix allocation check
  perf values: Fix thread index bug
  perf report: Add dump_read function
  perf record: Set read_format for inherit_stat
  perf c2c: Fix remote HITM detection for Skylake
  perf tools: Fix static build with newer toolchains
  ...
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