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<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>perf/x86/cqm: Fix CQM handling of grouping events into a cache_group</title>
<updated>2016-09-15T06:27:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vikas Shivappa</name>
<email>vikas.shivappa@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-03-10T23:32:07+00:00</published>
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Currently CQM (cache quality of service monitoring) is grouping all
events belonging to same PID to use one RMID. However its not counting
all of these different events. Hence we end up with a count of zero
for all events other than the group leader.

The patch tries to address the issue by keeping a flag in the
perf_event.hw which has other CQM related fields. The field is updated
at event creation and during grouping.

Signed-off-by: Vikas Shivappa &lt;vikas.shivappa@linux.intel.com&gt;
[peterz: Changed hw_perf_event::is_group_event to an int]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Alexander Shishkin &lt;alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Brian Gerst &lt;brgerst@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Denys Vlasenko &lt;dvlasenk@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Matt Fleming &lt;matt@codeblueprint.co.uk&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Stephane Eranian &lt;eranian@google.com&gt;
Cc: Vince Weaver &lt;vincent.weaver@maine.edu&gt;
Cc: fenghua.yu@intel.com
Cc: h.peter.anvin@intel.com
Cc: ravi.v.shankar@intel.com
Cc: vikas.shivappa@intel.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1457652732-4499-2-git-send-email-vikas.shivappa@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;

Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@verizon.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit a223c1c7ab4cc64537dc4b911f760d851683768a ]

Currently CQM (cache quality of service monitoring) is grouping all
events belonging to same PID to use one RMID. However its not counting
all of these different events. Hence we end up with a count of zero
for all events other than the group leader.

The patch tries to address the issue by keeping a flag in the
perf_event.hw which has other CQM related fields. The field is updated
at event creation and during grouping.

Signed-off-by: Vikas Shivappa &lt;vikas.shivappa@linux.intel.com&gt;
[peterz: Changed hw_perf_event::is_group_event to an int]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Alexander Shishkin &lt;alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Brian Gerst &lt;brgerst@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Denys Vlasenko &lt;dvlasenk@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Matt Fleming &lt;matt@codeblueprint.co.uk&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Stephane Eranian &lt;eranian@google.com&gt;
Cc: Vince Weaver &lt;vincent.weaver@maine.edu&gt;
Cc: fenghua.yu@intel.com
Cc: h.peter.anvin@intel.com
Cc: ravi.v.shankar@intel.com
Cc: vikas.shivappa@intel.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1457652732-4499-2-git-send-email-vikas.shivappa@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;

Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@verizon.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>perf/core: Robustify the perf_cgroup_from_task() RCU checks</title>
<updated>2015-11-23T08:21:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stephane Eranian</name>
<email>eranian@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-11-12T10:00:04+00:00</published>
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This patch reinforces the lockdep checks performed by
perf_cgroup_from_tsk() by passing the perf_event_context
whenever possible. It is okay to not hold the RCU read lock
when we know we hold the ctx-&gt;lock. This patch makes sure this
property holds.

In some functions, such as perf_cgroup_sched_in(), we do not
pass the context because we are sure we are holding the RCU
read lock.

Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian &lt;eranian@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Vince Weaver &lt;vincent.weaver@maine.edu&gt;
Cc: edumazet@google.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1447322404-10920-3-git-send-email-eranian@google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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This patch reinforces the lockdep checks performed by
perf_cgroup_from_tsk() by passing the perf_event_context
whenever possible. It is okay to not hold the RCU read lock
when we know we hold the ctx-&gt;lock. This patch makes sure this
property holds.

In some functions, such as perf_cgroup_sched_in(), we do not
pass the context because we are sure we are holding the RCU
read lock.

Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian &lt;eranian@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Vince Weaver &lt;vincent.weaver@maine.edu&gt;
Cc: edumazet@google.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1447322404-10920-3-git-send-email-eranian@google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>perf/core: Drop PERF_EVENT_TXN</title>
<updated>2015-09-13T09:27:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sukadev Bhattiprolu</name>
<email>sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-09-04T03:07:53+00:00</published>
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We currently use PERF_EVENT_TXN flag to determine if we are in the middle
of a transaction. If in a transaction, we defer the schedulability checks
from pmu-&gt;add() operation to the pmu-&gt;commit() operation.

Now that we have "transaction types" (PERF_PMU_TXN_ADD, PERF_PMU_TXN_READ)
we can use the type to determine if we are in a transaction and drop the
PERF_EVENT_TXN flag.

When PERF_EVENT_TXN is dropped, the cpuhw-&gt;group_flag on some architectures
becomes unused, so drop that field as well.

This is an extension of the Powerpc patch from Peter Zijlstra to s390,
Sparc and x86 architectures.

Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu &lt;sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Stephane Eranian &lt;eranian@google.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Vince Weaver &lt;vincent.weaver@maine.edu&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1441336073-22750-11-git-send-email-sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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We currently use PERF_EVENT_TXN flag to determine if we are in the middle
of a transaction. If in a transaction, we defer the schedulability checks
from pmu-&gt;add() operation to the pmu-&gt;commit() operation.

Now that we have "transaction types" (PERF_PMU_TXN_ADD, PERF_PMU_TXN_READ)
we can use the type to determine if we are in a transaction and drop the
PERF_EVENT_TXN flag.

When PERF_EVENT_TXN is dropped, the cpuhw-&gt;group_flag on some architectures
becomes unused, so drop that field as well.

This is an extension of the Powerpc patch from Peter Zijlstra to s390,
Sparc and x86 architectures.

Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu &lt;sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Stephane Eranian &lt;eranian@google.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Vince Weaver &lt;vincent.weaver@maine.edu&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1441336073-22750-11-git-send-email-sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>perf/core: Define PERF_PMU_TXN_READ interface</title>
<updated>2015-09-13T09:27:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sukadev Bhattiprolu</name>
<email>sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-09-04T03:07:51+00:00</published>
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Define a new PERF_PMU_TXN_READ interface to read a group of counters
at once.

        pmu-&gt;start_txn()                // Initialize before first event

        for each event in group
                pmu-&gt;read(event);       // Queue each event to be read

        rc = pmu-&gt;commit_txn()          // Read/update all queued counters

Note that we use this interface with all PMUs.  PMUs that implement this
interface use the -&gt;read() operation to _queue_ the counters to be read
and use -&gt;commit_txn() to actually read all the queued counters at once.

PMUs that don't implement PERF_PMU_TXN_READ ignore -&gt;start_txn() and
-&gt;commit_txn() and continue to read counters one at a time.

Thanks to input from Peter Zijlstra.

Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu &lt;sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Stephane Eranian &lt;eranian@google.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Vince Weaver &lt;vincent.weaver@maine.edu&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1441336073-22750-9-git-send-email-sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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Define a new PERF_PMU_TXN_READ interface to read a group of counters
at once.

        pmu-&gt;start_txn()                // Initialize before first event

        for each event in group
                pmu-&gt;read(event);       // Queue each event to be read

        rc = pmu-&gt;commit_txn()          // Read/update all queued counters

Note that we use this interface with all PMUs.  PMUs that implement this
interface use the -&gt;read() operation to _queue_ the counters to be read
and use -&gt;commit_txn() to actually read all the queued counters at once.

PMUs that don't implement PERF_PMU_TXN_READ ignore -&gt;start_txn() and
-&gt;commit_txn() and continue to read counters one at a time.

Thanks to input from Peter Zijlstra.

Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu &lt;sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Stephane Eranian &lt;eranian@google.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Vince Weaver &lt;vincent.weaver@maine.edu&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1441336073-22750-9-git-send-email-sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>perf/core: Add a 'flags' parameter to the PMU transactional interfaces</title>
<updated>2015-09-13T09:27:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sukadev Bhattiprolu</name>
<email>sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-09-04T03:07:45+00:00</published>
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Currently, the PMU interface allows reading only one counter at a time.
But some PMUs like the 24x7 counters in Power, support reading several
counters at once. To leveage this functionality, extend the transaction
interface to support a "transaction type".

The first type, PERF_PMU_TXN_ADD, refers to the existing transactions,
i.e. used to _schedule_ all the events on the PMU as a group. A second
transaction type, PERF_PMU_TXN_READ, will be used in a follow-on patch,
by the 24x7 counters to read several counters at once.

Extend the transaction interfaces to the PMU to accept a 'txn_flags'
parameter and use this parameter to ignore any transactions that are
not of type PERF_PMU_TXN_ADD.

Thanks to Peter Zijlstra for his input.

Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu &lt;sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
[peterz: s390 compile fix]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Stephane Eranian &lt;eranian@google.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Vince Weaver &lt;vincent.weaver@maine.edu&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1441336073-22750-3-git-send-email-sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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Currently, the PMU interface allows reading only one counter at a time.
But some PMUs like the 24x7 counters in Power, support reading several
counters at once. To leveage this functionality, extend the transaction
interface to support a "transaction type".

The first type, PERF_PMU_TXN_ADD, refers to the existing transactions,
i.e. used to _schedule_ all the events on the PMU as a group. A second
transaction type, PERF_PMU_TXN_READ, will be used in a follow-on patch,
by the 24x7 counters to read several counters at once.

Extend the transaction interfaces to the PMU to accept a 'txn_flags'
parameter and use this parameter to ignore any transactions that are
not of type PERF_PMU_TXN_ADD.

Thanks to Peter Zijlstra for his input.

Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu &lt;sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
[peterz: s390 compile fix]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Stephane Eranian &lt;eranian@google.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Vince Weaver &lt;vincent.weaver@maine.edu&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1441336073-22750-3-git-send-email-sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>perf/abi: Document some more aspects of the perf ABI</title>
<updated>2015-09-13T09:27:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>peterz@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-08-28T12:06:07+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Stephane Eranian &lt;eranian@google.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Vince Weaver &lt;vincent.weaver@maine.edu&gt;
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Stephane Eranian &lt;eranian@google.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Vince Weaver &lt;vincent.weaver@maine.edu&gt;
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>perf: add the necessary core perf APIs when accessing events counters in eBPF programs</title>
<updated>2015-08-10T05:50:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kaixu Xia</name>
<email>xiakaixu@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-08-06T07:02:32+00:00</published>
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This patch add three core perf APIs:
 - perf_event_attrs(): export the struct perf_event_attr from struct
   perf_event;
 - perf_event_get(): get the struct perf_event from the given fd;
 - perf_event_read_local(): read the events counters active on the
   current CPU;
These APIs are needed when accessing events counters in eBPF programs.

The API perf_event_read_local() comes from Peter and I add the
corresponding SOB.

Signed-off-by: Kaixu Xia &lt;xiakaixu@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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This patch add three core perf APIs:
 - perf_event_attrs(): export the struct perf_event_attr from struct
   perf_event;
 - perf_event_get(): get the struct perf_event from the given fd;
 - perf_event_read_local(): read the events counters active on the
   current CPU;
These APIs are needed when accessing events counters in eBPF programs.

The API perf_event_read_local() comes from Peter and I add the
corresponding SOB.

Signed-off-by: Kaixu Xia &lt;xiakaixu@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'trace-v4.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace</title>
<updated>2015-06-26T21:02:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-06-26T21:02:43+00:00</published>
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Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
 "This patch series contains several clean ups and even a new trace
  clock "monitonic raw".  Also some enhancements to make the ring buffer
  even faster.  But the biggest and most noticeable change is the
  renaming of the ftrace* files, structures and variables that have to
  deal with trace events.

  Over the years I've had several developers tell me about their
  confusion with what ftrace is compared to events.  Technically,
  "ftrace" is the infrastructure to do the function hooks, which include
  tracing and also helps with live kernel patching.  But the trace
  events are a separate entity altogether, and the files that affect the
  trace events should not be named "ftrace".  These include:

    include/trace/ftrace.h         -&gt;    include/trace/trace_events.h
    include/linux/ftrace_event.h   -&gt;    include/linux/trace_events.h

  Also, functions that are specific for trace events have also been renamed:

    ftrace_print_*()               -&gt;    trace_print_*()
    (un)register_ftrace_event()    -&gt;    (un)register_trace_event()
    ftrace_event_name()            -&gt;    trace_event_name()
    ftrace_trigger_soft_disabled() -&gt;    trace_trigger_soft_disabled()
    ftrace_define_fields_##call()  -&gt;    trace_define_fields_##call()
    ftrace_get_offsets_##call()    -&gt;    trace_get_offsets_##call()

  Structures have been renamed:

    ftrace_event_file              -&gt;    trace_event_file
    ftrace_event_{call,class}      -&gt;    trace_event_{call,class}
    ftrace_event_buffer            -&gt;    trace_event_buffer
    ftrace_subsystem_dir           -&gt;    trace_subsystem_dir
    ftrace_event_raw_##call        -&gt;    trace_event_raw_##call
    ftrace_event_data_offset_##call-&gt;    trace_event_data_offset_##call
    ftrace_event_type_funcs_##call -&gt;    trace_event_type_funcs_##call

  And a few various variables and flags have also been updated.

  This has been sitting in linux-next for some time, and I have not
  heard a single complaint about this rename breaking anything.  Mostly
  because these functions, variables and structures are mostly internal
  to the tracing system and are seldom (if ever) used by anything
  external to that"

* tag 'trace-v4.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (33 commits)
  ring_buffer: Allow to exit the ring buffer benchmark immediately
  ring-buffer-benchmark: Fix the wrong type
  ring-buffer-benchmark: Fix the wrong param in module_param
  ring-buffer: Add enum names for the context levels
  ring-buffer: Remove useless unused tracing_off_permanent()
  ring-buffer: Give NMIs a chance to lock the reader_lock
  ring-buffer: Add trace_recursive checks to ring_buffer_write()
  ring-buffer: Allways do the trace_recursive checks
  ring-buffer: Move recursive check to per_cpu descriptor
  ring-buffer: Add unlikelys to make fast path the default
  tracing: Rename ftrace_get_offsets_##call() to trace_event_get_offsets_##call()
  tracing: Rename ftrace_define_fields_##call() to trace_event_define_fields_##call()
  tracing: Rename ftrace_event_type_funcs_##call to trace_event_type_funcs_##call
  tracing: Rename ftrace_data_offset_##call to trace_event_data_offset_##call
  tracing: Rename ftrace_raw_##call event structures to trace_event_raw_##call
  tracing: Rename ftrace_trigger_soft_disabled() to trace_trigger_soft_disabled()
  tracing: Rename FTRACE_EVENT_FL_* flags to EVENT_FILE_FL_*
  tracing: Rename struct ftrace_subsystem_dir to trace_subsystem_dir
  tracing: Rename ftrace_event_name() to trace_event_name()
  tracing: Rename FTRACE_MAX_EVENT to TRACE_EVENT_TYPE_MAX
  ...
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<pre>
Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
 "This patch series contains several clean ups and even a new trace
  clock "monitonic raw".  Also some enhancements to make the ring buffer
  even faster.  But the biggest and most noticeable change is the
  renaming of the ftrace* files, structures and variables that have to
  deal with trace events.

  Over the years I've had several developers tell me about their
  confusion with what ftrace is compared to events.  Technically,
  "ftrace" is the infrastructure to do the function hooks, which include
  tracing and also helps with live kernel patching.  But the trace
  events are a separate entity altogether, and the files that affect the
  trace events should not be named "ftrace".  These include:

    include/trace/ftrace.h         -&gt;    include/trace/trace_events.h
    include/linux/ftrace_event.h   -&gt;    include/linux/trace_events.h

  Also, functions that are specific for trace events have also been renamed:

    ftrace_print_*()               -&gt;    trace_print_*()
    (un)register_ftrace_event()    -&gt;    (un)register_trace_event()
    ftrace_event_name()            -&gt;    trace_event_name()
    ftrace_trigger_soft_disabled() -&gt;    trace_trigger_soft_disabled()
    ftrace_define_fields_##call()  -&gt;    trace_define_fields_##call()
    ftrace_get_offsets_##call()    -&gt;    trace_get_offsets_##call()

  Structures have been renamed:

    ftrace_event_file              -&gt;    trace_event_file
    ftrace_event_{call,class}      -&gt;    trace_event_{call,class}
    ftrace_event_buffer            -&gt;    trace_event_buffer
    ftrace_subsystem_dir           -&gt;    trace_subsystem_dir
    ftrace_event_raw_##call        -&gt;    trace_event_raw_##call
    ftrace_event_data_offset_##call-&gt;    trace_event_data_offset_##call
    ftrace_event_type_funcs_##call -&gt;    trace_event_type_funcs_##call

  And a few various variables and flags have also been updated.

  This has been sitting in linux-next for some time, and I have not
  heard a single complaint about this rename breaking anything.  Mostly
  because these functions, variables and structures are mostly internal
  to the tracing system and are seldom (if ever) used by anything
  external to that"

* tag 'trace-v4.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (33 commits)
  ring_buffer: Allow to exit the ring buffer benchmark immediately
  ring-buffer-benchmark: Fix the wrong type
  ring-buffer-benchmark: Fix the wrong param in module_param
  ring-buffer: Add enum names for the context levels
  ring-buffer: Remove useless unused tracing_off_permanent()
  ring-buffer: Give NMIs a chance to lock the reader_lock
  ring-buffer: Add trace_recursive checks to ring_buffer_write()
  ring-buffer: Allways do the trace_recursive checks
  ring-buffer: Move recursive check to per_cpu descriptor
  ring-buffer: Add unlikelys to make fast path the default
  tracing: Rename ftrace_get_offsets_##call() to trace_event_get_offsets_##call()
  tracing: Rename ftrace_define_fields_##call() to trace_event_define_fields_##call()
  tracing: Rename ftrace_event_type_funcs_##call to trace_event_type_funcs_##call
  tracing: Rename ftrace_data_offset_##call to trace_event_data_offset_##call
  tracing: Rename ftrace_raw_##call event structures to trace_event_raw_##call
  tracing: Rename ftrace_trigger_soft_disabled() to trace_trigger_soft_disabled()
  tracing: Rename FTRACE_EVENT_FL_* flags to EVENT_FILE_FL_*
  tracing: Rename struct ftrace_subsystem_dir to trace_subsystem_dir
  tracing: Rename ftrace_event_name() to trace_event_name()
  tracing: Rename FTRACE_MAX_EVENT to TRACE_EVENT_TYPE_MAX
  ...
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://ftp.arm.linux.org.uk/~rmk/linux-arm</title>
<updated>2015-06-26T19:20:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-06-26T19:20:00+00:00</published>
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Pull ARM updates from Russell King:
 "Bigger items included in this update are:

   - A series of updates from Arnd for ARM randconfig build failures
   - Updates from Dmitry for StrongARM SA-1100 to move IRQ handling to
     drivers/irqchip/
   - Move ARMs SP804 timer to drivers/clocksource/
   - Perf updates from Mark Rutland in preparation to move the ARM perf
     code into drivers/ so it can be shared with ARM64.
   - MCPM updates from Nicolas
   - Add support for taking platform serial number from DT
   - Re-implement Keystone2 physical address space switch to conform to
     architecture requirements
   - Clean up ARMv7 LPAE code, which goes in hand with the Keystone2
     changes.
   - L2C cleanups to avoid unlocking caches if we're prevented by the
     secure support to unlock.
   - Avoid cleaning a potentially dirty cache containing stale data on
     CPU initialisation
   - Add ARM-only entry point for secondary startup (for machines that
     can only call into a Thumb kernel in ARM mode).  Same thing is also
     done for the resume entry point.
   - Provide arch_irqs_disabled via asm-generic
   - Enlarge ARMv7M vector table
   - Always use BFD linker for VDSO, as gold doesn't accept some of the
     options we need.
   - Fix an incorrect BSYM (for Thumb symbols) usage, and convert all
     BSYM compiler macros to a "badr" (for branch address).
   - Shut up compiler warnings provoked by our cmpxchg() implementation.
   - Ensure bad xchg sizes fail to link"

* 'for-linus' of git://ftp.arm.linux.org.uk/~rmk/linux-arm: (75 commits)
  ARM: Fix build if CLKDEV_LOOKUP is not configured
  ARM: fix new BSYM() usage introduced via for-arm-soc branch
  ARM: 8383/1: nommu: avoid deprecated source register on mov
  ARM: 8391/1: l2c: add options to overwrite prefetching behavior
  ARM: 8390/1: irqflags: Get arch_irqs_disabled from asm-generic
  ARM: 8387/1: arm/mm/dma-mapping.c: Add arm_coherent_dma_mmap
  ARM: 8388/1: tcm: Don't crash when TCM banks are protected by TrustZone
  ARM: 8384/1: VDSO: force use of BFD linker
  ARM: 8385/1: VDSO: group link options
  ARM: cmpxchg: avoid warnings from macro-ized cmpxchg() implementations
  ARM: remove __bad_xchg definition
  ARM: 8369/1: ARMv7M: define size of vector table for Vybrid
  ARM: 8382/1: clocksource: make ARM_TIMER_SP804 depend on GENERIC_SCHED_CLOCK
  ARM: 8366/1: move Dual-Timer SP804 driver to drivers/clocksource
  ARM: 8365/1: introduce sp804_timer_disable and remove arm_timer.h inclusion
  ARM: 8364/1: fix BE32 module loading
  ARM: 8360/1: add secondary_startup_arm prototype in header file
  ARM: 8359/1: correct secondary_startup_arm mode
  ARM: proc-v7: sanitise and document registers around errata
  ARM: proc-v7: clean up MIDR access
  ...
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<pre>
Pull ARM updates from Russell King:
 "Bigger items included in this update are:

   - A series of updates from Arnd for ARM randconfig build failures
   - Updates from Dmitry for StrongARM SA-1100 to move IRQ handling to
     drivers/irqchip/
   - Move ARMs SP804 timer to drivers/clocksource/
   - Perf updates from Mark Rutland in preparation to move the ARM perf
     code into drivers/ so it can be shared with ARM64.
   - MCPM updates from Nicolas
   - Add support for taking platform serial number from DT
   - Re-implement Keystone2 physical address space switch to conform to
     architecture requirements
   - Clean up ARMv7 LPAE code, which goes in hand with the Keystone2
     changes.
   - L2C cleanups to avoid unlocking caches if we're prevented by the
     secure support to unlock.
   - Avoid cleaning a potentially dirty cache containing stale data on
     CPU initialisation
   - Add ARM-only entry point for secondary startup (for machines that
     can only call into a Thumb kernel in ARM mode).  Same thing is also
     done for the resume entry point.
   - Provide arch_irqs_disabled via asm-generic
   - Enlarge ARMv7M vector table
   - Always use BFD linker for VDSO, as gold doesn't accept some of the
     options we need.
   - Fix an incorrect BSYM (for Thumb symbols) usage, and convert all
     BSYM compiler macros to a "badr" (for branch address).
   - Shut up compiler warnings provoked by our cmpxchg() implementation.
   - Ensure bad xchg sizes fail to link"

* 'for-linus' of git://ftp.arm.linux.org.uk/~rmk/linux-arm: (75 commits)
  ARM: Fix build if CLKDEV_LOOKUP is not configured
  ARM: fix new BSYM() usage introduced via for-arm-soc branch
  ARM: 8383/1: nommu: avoid deprecated source register on mov
  ARM: 8391/1: l2c: add options to overwrite prefetching behavior
  ARM: 8390/1: irqflags: Get arch_irqs_disabled from asm-generic
  ARM: 8387/1: arm/mm/dma-mapping.c: Add arm_coherent_dma_mmap
  ARM: 8388/1: tcm: Don't crash when TCM banks are protected by TrustZone
  ARM: 8384/1: VDSO: force use of BFD linker
  ARM: 8385/1: VDSO: group link options
  ARM: cmpxchg: avoid warnings from macro-ized cmpxchg() implementations
  ARM: remove __bad_xchg definition
  ARM: 8369/1: ARMv7M: define size of vector table for Vybrid
  ARM: 8382/1: clocksource: make ARM_TIMER_SP804 depend on GENERIC_SCHED_CLOCK
  ARM: 8366/1: move Dual-Timer SP804 driver to drivers/clocksource
  ARM: 8365/1: introduce sp804_timer_disable and remove arm_timer.h inclusion
  ARM: 8364/1: fix BE32 module loading
  ARM: 8360/1: add secondary_startup_arm prototype in header file
  ARM: 8359/1: correct secondary_startup_arm mode
  ARM: proc-v7: sanitise and document registers around errata
  ARM: proc-v7: clean up MIDR access
  ...
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2015-06-23T01:57:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-06-23T01:57:44+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=43224b96af3154cedd7220f7b90094905f07ac78'/>
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Pull timer updates from Thomas Gleixner:
 "A rather largish update for everything time and timer related:

   - Cache footprint optimizations for both hrtimers and timer wheel

   - Lower the NOHZ impact on systems which have NOHZ or timer migration
     disabled at runtime.

   - Optimize run time overhead of hrtimer interrupt by making the clock
     offset updates smarter

   - hrtimer cleanups and removal of restrictions to tackle some
     problems in sched/perf

   - Some more leap second tweaks

   - Another round of changes addressing the 2038 problem

   - First step to change the internals of clock event devices by
     introducing the necessary infrastructure

   - Allow constant folding for usecs/msecs_to_jiffies()

   - The usual pile of clockevent/clocksource driver updates

  The hrtimer changes contain updates to sched, perf and x86 as they
  depend on them plus changes all over the tree to cleanup API changes
  and redundant code, which got copied all over the place.  The y2038
  changes touch s390 to remove the last non 2038 safe code related to
  boot/persistant clock"

* 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (114 commits)
  clocksource: Increase dependencies of timer-stm32 to limit build wreckage
  timer: Minimize nohz off overhead
  timer: Reduce timer migration overhead if disabled
  timer: Stats: Simplify the flags handling
  timer: Replace timer base by a cpu index
  timer: Use hlist for the timer wheel hash buckets
  timer: Remove FIFO "guarantee"
  timers: Sanitize catchup_timer_jiffies() usage
  hrtimer: Allow hrtimer::function() to free the timer
  seqcount: Introduce raw_write_seqcount_barrier()
  seqcount: Rename write_seqcount_barrier()
  hrtimer: Fix hrtimer_is_queued() hole
  hrtimer: Remove HRTIMER_STATE_MIGRATE
  selftest: Timers: Avoid signal deadlock in leap-a-day
  timekeeping: Copy the shadow-timekeeper over the real timekeeper last
  clockevents: Check state instead of mode in suspend/resume path
  selftests: timers: Add leap-second timer edge testing to leap-a-day.c
  ntp: Do leapsecond adjustment in adjtimex read path
  time: Prevent early expiry of hrtimers[CLOCK_REALTIME] at the leap second edge
  ntp: Introduce and use SECS_PER_DAY macro instead of 86400
  ...
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<pre>
Pull timer updates from Thomas Gleixner:
 "A rather largish update for everything time and timer related:

   - Cache footprint optimizations for both hrtimers and timer wheel

   - Lower the NOHZ impact on systems which have NOHZ or timer migration
     disabled at runtime.

   - Optimize run time overhead of hrtimer interrupt by making the clock
     offset updates smarter

   - hrtimer cleanups and removal of restrictions to tackle some
     problems in sched/perf

   - Some more leap second tweaks

   - Another round of changes addressing the 2038 problem

   - First step to change the internals of clock event devices by
     introducing the necessary infrastructure

   - Allow constant folding for usecs/msecs_to_jiffies()

   - The usual pile of clockevent/clocksource driver updates

  The hrtimer changes contain updates to sched, perf and x86 as they
  depend on them plus changes all over the tree to cleanup API changes
  and redundant code, which got copied all over the place.  The y2038
  changes touch s390 to remove the last non 2038 safe code related to
  boot/persistant clock"

* 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (114 commits)
  clocksource: Increase dependencies of timer-stm32 to limit build wreckage
  timer: Minimize nohz off overhead
  timer: Reduce timer migration overhead if disabled
  timer: Stats: Simplify the flags handling
  timer: Replace timer base by a cpu index
  timer: Use hlist for the timer wheel hash buckets
  timer: Remove FIFO "guarantee"
  timers: Sanitize catchup_timer_jiffies() usage
  hrtimer: Allow hrtimer::function() to free the timer
  seqcount: Introduce raw_write_seqcount_barrier()
  seqcount: Rename write_seqcount_barrier()
  hrtimer: Fix hrtimer_is_queued() hole
  hrtimer: Remove HRTIMER_STATE_MIGRATE
  selftest: Timers: Avoid signal deadlock in leap-a-day
  timekeeping: Copy the shadow-timekeeper over the real timekeeper last
  clockevents: Check state instead of mode in suspend/resume path
  selftests: timers: Add leap-second timer edge testing to leap-a-day.c
  ntp: Do leapsecond adjustment in adjtimex read path
  time: Prevent early expiry of hrtimers[CLOCK_REALTIME] at the leap second edge
  ntp: Introduce and use SECS_PER_DAY macro instead of 86400
  ...
</pre>
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</content>
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