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<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net</title>
<updated>2015-11-11T02:11:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2015-11-11T02:11:41+00:00</published>
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Pull networking fixes from David Miller:

 1) Fix null deref in xt_TEE netfilter module, from Eric Dumazet.

 2) Several spots need to get to the original listner for SYN-ACK
    packets, most spots got this ok but some were not.  Whilst covering
    the remaining cases, create a helper to do this.  From Eric Dumazet.

 3) Missiing check of return value from alloc_netdev() in CAIF SPI code,
    from Rasmus Villemoes.

 4) Don't sleep while != TASK_RUNNING in macvtap, from Vlad Yasevich.

 5) Use after free in mvneta driver, from Justin Maggard.

 6) Fix race on dst-&gt;flags access in dst_release(), from Eric Dumazet.

 7) Add missing ZLIB_INFLATE dependency for new qed driver.  From Arnd
    Bergmann.

 8) Fix multicast getsockopt deadlock, from WANG Cong.

 9) Fix deadlock in btusb, from Kuba Pawlak.

10) Some ipv6_add_dev() failure paths were not cleaning up the SNMP6
    counter state.  From Sabrina Dubroca.

11) Fix packet_bind() race, which can cause lost notifications, from
    Francesco Ruggeri.

12) Fix MAC restoration in qlcnic driver during bonding mode changes,
    from Jarod Wilson.

13) Revert bridging forward delay change which broke libvirt and other
    userspace things, from Vlad Yasevich.

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net: (65 commits)
  Revert "bridge: Allow forward delay to be cfgd when STP enabled"
  bpf_trace: Make dependent on PERF_EVENTS
  qed: select ZLIB_INFLATE
  net: fix a race in dst_release()
  net: mvneta: Fix memory use after free.
  net: Documentation: Fix default value tcp_limit_output_bytes
  macvtap: Resolve possible __might_sleep warning in macvtap_do_read()
  mvneta: add FIXED_PHY dependency
  net: caif: check return value of alloc_netdev
  net: hisilicon: NET_VENDOR_HISILICON should depend on HAS_DMA
  drivers: net: xgene: fix RGMII 10/100Mb mode
  netfilter: nft_meta: use skb_to_full_sk() helper
  net_sched: em_meta: use skb_to_full_sk() helper
  sched: cls_flow: use skb_to_full_sk() helper
  netfilter: xt_owner: use skb_to_full_sk() helper
  smack: use skb_to_full_sk() helper
  net: add skb_to_full_sk() helper and use it in selinux_netlbl_skbuff_setsid()
  bpf: doc: correct arch list for supported eBPF JIT
  dwc_eth_qos: Delete an unnecessary check before the function call "of_node_put"
  bonding: fix panic on non-ARPHRD_ETHER enslave failure
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Pull networking fixes from David Miller:

 1) Fix null deref in xt_TEE netfilter module, from Eric Dumazet.

 2) Several spots need to get to the original listner for SYN-ACK
    packets, most spots got this ok but some were not.  Whilst covering
    the remaining cases, create a helper to do this.  From Eric Dumazet.

 3) Missiing check of return value from alloc_netdev() in CAIF SPI code,
    from Rasmus Villemoes.

 4) Don't sleep while != TASK_RUNNING in macvtap, from Vlad Yasevich.

 5) Use after free in mvneta driver, from Justin Maggard.

 6) Fix race on dst-&gt;flags access in dst_release(), from Eric Dumazet.

 7) Add missing ZLIB_INFLATE dependency for new qed driver.  From Arnd
    Bergmann.

 8) Fix multicast getsockopt deadlock, from WANG Cong.

 9) Fix deadlock in btusb, from Kuba Pawlak.

10) Some ipv6_add_dev() failure paths were not cleaning up the SNMP6
    counter state.  From Sabrina Dubroca.

11) Fix packet_bind() race, which can cause lost notifications, from
    Francesco Ruggeri.

12) Fix MAC restoration in qlcnic driver during bonding mode changes,
    from Jarod Wilson.

13) Revert bridging forward delay change which broke libvirt and other
    userspace things, from Vlad Yasevich.

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net: (65 commits)
  Revert "bridge: Allow forward delay to be cfgd when STP enabled"
  bpf_trace: Make dependent on PERF_EVENTS
  qed: select ZLIB_INFLATE
  net: fix a race in dst_release()
  net: mvneta: Fix memory use after free.
  net: Documentation: Fix default value tcp_limit_output_bytes
  macvtap: Resolve possible __might_sleep warning in macvtap_do_read()
  mvneta: add FIXED_PHY dependency
  net: caif: check return value of alloc_netdev
  net: hisilicon: NET_VENDOR_HISILICON should depend on HAS_DMA
  drivers: net: xgene: fix RGMII 10/100Mb mode
  netfilter: nft_meta: use skb_to_full_sk() helper
  net_sched: em_meta: use skb_to_full_sk() helper
  sched: cls_flow: use skb_to_full_sk() helper
  netfilter: xt_owner: use skb_to_full_sk() helper
  smack: use skb_to_full_sk() helper
  net: add skb_to_full_sk() helper and use it in selinux_netlbl_skbuff_setsid()
  bpf: doc: correct arch list for supported eBPF JIT
  dwc_eth_qos: Delete an unnecessary check before the function call "of_node_put"
  bonding: fix panic on non-ARPHRD_ETHER enslave failure
  ...
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<title>bpf_trace: Make dependent on PERF_EVENTS</title>
<updated>2015-11-10T20:40:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-11-10T20:28:17+00:00</published>
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Arnd Bergmann reported:

  In my ARM randconfig tests, I'm getting a build error for
  newly added code in bpf_perf_event_read and bpf_perf_event_output
  whenever CONFIG_PERF_EVENTS is disabled:

  kernel/trace/bpf_trace.c: In function 'bpf_perf_event_read':
  kernel/trace/bpf_trace.c:203:11: error: 'struct perf_event' has no member named 'oncpu'
  if (event-&gt;oncpu != smp_processor_id() ||
           ^
  kernel/trace/bpf_trace.c:204:11: error: 'struct perf_event' has no member named 'pmu'
        event-&gt;pmu-&gt;count)

  This can happen when UPROBE_EVENT is enabled but KPROBE_EVENT
  is disabled. I'm not sure if that is a configuration we care
  about, otherwise we could prevent this case from occuring by
  adding Kconfig dependencies.

Looking at this further, it's really that UPROBE_EVENT enables PERF_EVENTS.
By just having BPF_EVENTS depend on PERF_EVENTS, then all is fine.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4525348.Aq9YoXkChv@wuerfel
Reported-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Arnd Bergmann reported:

  In my ARM randconfig tests, I'm getting a build error for
  newly added code in bpf_perf_event_read and bpf_perf_event_output
  whenever CONFIG_PERF_EVENTS is disabled:

  kernel/trace/bpf_trace.c: In function 'bpf_perf_event_read':
  kernel/trace/bpf_trace.c:203:11: error: 'struct perf_event' has no member named 'oncpu'
  if (event-&gt;oncpu != smp_processor_id() ||
           ^
  kernel/trace/bpf_trace.c:204:11: error: 'struct perf_event' has no member named 'pmu'
        event-&gt;pmu-&gt;count)

  This can happen when UPROBE_EVENT is enabled but KPROBE_EVENT
  is disabled. I'm not sure if that is a configuration we care
  about, otherwise we could prevent this case from occuring by
  adding Kconfig dependencies.

Looking at this further, it's really that UPROBE_EVENT enables PERF_EVENTS.
By just having BPF_EVENTS depend on PERF_EVENTS, then all is fine.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4525348.Aq9YoXkChv@wuerfel
Reported-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>tracing: gpio: Add Kconfig option for enabling/disabling trace events</title>
<updated>2015-10-21T01:56:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tal Shorer</name>
<email>tal.shorer@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-08-01T12:27:58+00:00</published>
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Add a new options to trace Kconfig, CONFIG_TRACING_EVENTS_GPIO, that is
used for enabling/disabling compilation of gpio function trace events.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1438432079-11704-4-git-send-email-tal.shorer@gmail.com

Acked-by: Linus Walleij &lt;linus.walleij@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tal Shorer &lt;tal.shorer@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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Add a new options to trace Kconfig, CONFIG_TRACING_EVENTS_GPIO, that is
used for enabling/disabling compilation of gpio function trace events.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1438432079-11704-4-git-send-email-tal.shorer@gmail.com

Acked-by: Linus Walleij &lt;linus.walleij@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tal Shorer &lt;tal.shorer@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>tracing, perf: Implement BPF programs attached to uprobes</title>
<updated>2015-08-06T18:29:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Wang Nan</name>
<email>wangnan0@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-07-01T02:13:50+00:00</published>
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By copying BPF related operation to uprobe processing path, this patch
allow users attach BPF programs to uprobes like what they are already
doing on kprobes.

After this patch, users are allowed to use PERF_EVENT_IOC_SET_BPF on a
uprobe perf event. Which make it possible to profile user space programs
and kernel events together using BPF.

Because of this patch, CONFIG_BPF_EVENTS should be selected by
CONFIG_UPROBE_EVENT to ensure trace_call_bpf() is compiled even if
KPROBE_EVENT is not set.

Signed-off-by: Wang Nan &lt;wangnan0@huawei.com&gt;
Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@plumgrid.com&gt;
Cc: Brendan Gregg &lt;brendan.d.gregg@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Cc: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: He Kuang &lt;hekuang@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Kaixu Xia &lt;xiakaixu@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Cc: Zefan Li &lt;lizefan@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: pi3orama@163.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1435716878-189507-3-git-send-email-wangnan0@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
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By copying BPF related operation to uprobe processing path, this patch
allow users attach BPF programs to uprobes like what they are already
doing on kprobes.

After this patch, users are allowed to use PERF_EVENT_IOC_SET_BPF on a
uprobe perf event. Which make it possible to profile user space programs
and kernel events together using BPF.

Because of this patch, CONFIG_BPF_EVENTS should be selected by
CONFIG_UPROBE_EVENT to ensure trace_call_bpf() is compiled even if
KPROBE_EVENT is not set.

Signed-off-by: Wang Nan &lt;wangnan0@huawei.com&gt;
Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@plumgrid.com&gt;
Cc: Brendan Gregg &lt;brendan.d.gregg@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Cc: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: He Kuang &lt;hekuang@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Kaixu Xia &lt;xiakaixu@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Cc: Zefan Li &lt;lizefan@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: pi3orama@163.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1435716878-189507-3-git-send-email-wangnan0@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
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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>tracing: Add enum_map file to show enums that have been mapped</title>
<updated>2015-04-08T14:58:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-03-31T21:23:45+00:00</published>
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Add a enum_map file in the tracing directory to see what enums have been
saved to convert in the print fmt files.

As this requires the enum mapping to be persistent in memory, it is only
created if the new config option CONFIG_TRACE_ENUM_MAP_FILE is enabled.
This is for debugging and will increase the persistent memory footprint
of the kernel.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150403013802.220157513@goodmis.org

Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com&gt;
Tested-by: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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Add a enum_map file in the tracing directory to see what enums have been
saved to convert in the print fmt files.

As this requires the enum mapping to be persistent in memory, it is only
created if the new config option CONFIG_TRACE_ENUM_MAP_FILE is enabled.
This is for debugging and will increase the persistent memory footprint
of the kernel.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150403013802.220157513@goodmis.org

Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com&gt;
Tested-by: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>bpf: Fix the build on BPF_SYSCALL=y &amp;&amp; !CONFIG_TRACING kernels, make it more configurable</title>
<updated>2015-04-02T14:28:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ingo Molnar</name>
<email>mingo@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-04-02T13:51:39+00:00</published>
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So bpf_tracing.o depends on CONFIG_BPF_SYSCALL - but that's not its only
dependency, it also depends on the tracing infrastructure and on kprobes,
without which it will fail to build with:

  In file included from kernel/trace/bpf_trace.c:14:0:
  kernel/trace/trace.h: In function ‘trace_test_and_set_recursion’:
  kernel/trace/trace.h:491:28: error: ‘struct task_struct’ has no member named ‘trace_recursion’
    unsigned int val = current-&gt;trace_recursion;
  [...]

It took quite some time to trigger this build failure, because right now
BPF_SYSCALL is very obscure, depends on CONFIG_EXPERT. So also make BPF_SYSCALL
more configurable, not just under CONFIG_EXPERT.

If BPF_SYSCALL, tracing and kprobes are enabled then enable the bpf_tracing
gateway as well.

We might want to make this an interactive option later on, although
I'd not complicate it unnecessarily: enabling BPF_SYSCALL is enough of
an indicator that the user wants BPF support.

Cc: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@plumgrid.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Cc: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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So bpf_tracing.o depends on CONFIG_BPF_SYSCALL - but that's not its only
dependency, it also depends on the tracing infrastructure and on kprobes,
without which it will fail to build with:

  In file included from kernel/trace/bpf_trace.c:14:0:
  kernel/trace/trace.h: In function ‘trace_test_and_set_recursion’:
  kernel/trace/trace.h:491:28: error: ‘struct task_struct’ has no member named ‘trace_recursion’
    unsigned int val = current-&gt;trace_recursion;
  [...]

It took quite some time to trigger this build failure, because right now
BPF_SYSCALL is very obscure, depends on CONFIG_EXPERT. So also make BPF_SYSCALL
more configurable, not just under CONFIG_EXPERT.

If BPF_SYSCALL, tracing and kprobes are enabled then enable the bpf_tracing
gateway as well.

We might want to make this an interactive option later on, although
I'd not complicate it unnecessarily: enabling BPF_SYSCALL is enough of
an indicator that the user wants BPF support.

Cc: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@plumgrid.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Cc: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>tracing: Remove function_trace_stop and HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACE_MCOUNT_TEST</title>
<updated>2014-07-18T17:58:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-06-26T15:24:52+00:00</published>
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All users of function_trace_stop and HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACE_MCOUNT_TEST have
been removed. We can safely remove them from the kernel.

Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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All users of function_trace_stop and HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACE_MCOUNT_TEST have
been removed. We can safely remove them from the kernel.

Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>tracing: Add tracepoint benchmark tracepoint</title>
<updated>2014-05-30T02:49:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-05-30T02:49:07+00:00</published>
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In order to help benchmark the time tracepoints take, a new config
option is added called CONFIG_TRACEPOINT_BENCHMARK. When this option
is set a tracepoint is created called "benchmark:benchmark_event".
When the tracepoint is enabled, it kicks off a kernel thread that
goes into an infinite loop (calling cond_sched() to let other tasks
run), and calls the tracepoint. Each iteration will record the time
it took to write to the tracepoint and the next iteration that
data will be passed to the tracepoint itself. That is, the tracepoint
will report the time it took to do the previous tracepoint.
The string written to the tracepoint is a static string of 128 bytes
to keep the time the same. The initial string is simply a write of
"START". The second string records the cold cache time of the first
write which is not added to the rest of the calculations.

As it is a tight loop, it benchmarks as hot cache. That's fine because
we care most about hot paths that are probably in cache already.

An example of the output:

     START
     first=3672 [COLD CACHED]
     last=632 first=3672 max=632 min=632 avg=316 std=446 std^2=199712
     last=278 first=3672 max=632 min=278 avg=303 std=316 std^2=100337
     last=277 first=3672 max=632 min=277 avg=296 std=258 std^2=67064
     last=273 first=3672 max=632 min=273 avg=292 std=224 std^2=50411
     last=273 first=3672 max=632 min=273 avg=288 std=200 std^2=40389
     last=281 first=3672 max=632 min=273 avg=287 std=183 std^2=33666

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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In order to help benchmark the time tracepoints take, a new config
option is added called CONFIG_TRACEPOINT_BENCHMARK. When this option
is set a tracepoint is created called "benchmark:benchmark_event".
When the tracepoint is enabled, it kicks off a kernel thread that
goes into an infinite loop (calling cond_sched() to let other tasks
run), and calls the tracepoint. Each iteration will record the time
it took to write to the tracepoint and the next iteration that
data will be passed to the tracepoint itself. That is, the tracepoint
will report the time it took to do the previous tracepoint.
The string written to the tracepoint is a static string of 128 bytes
to keep the time the same. The initial string is simply a write of
"START". The second string records the cold cache time of the first
write which is not added to the rest of the calculations.

As it is a tight loop, it benchmarks as hot cache. That's fine because
we care most about hot paths that are probably in cache already.

An example of the output:

     START
     first=3672 [COLD CACHED]
     last=632 first=3672 max=632 min=632 avg=316 std=446 std^2=199712
     last=278 first=3672 max=632 min=278 avg=303 std=316 std^2=100337
     last=277 first=3672 max=632 min=277 avg=296 std=258 std^2=67064
     last=273 first=3672 max=632 min=273 avg=292 std=224 std^2=50411
     last=273 first=3672 max=632 min=273 avg=288 std=200 std^2=40389
     last=281 first=3672 max=632 min=273 avg=287 std=183 std^2=33666

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>uprobes: Kconfig dependency fix</title>
<updated>2014-03-18T20:39:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David A. Long</name>
<email>dave.long@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-03-07T15:32:22+00:00</published>
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Suggested change from Oleg Nesterov. Fixes incomplete dependencies
for uprobes feature.

Signed-off-by: David A. Long &lt;dave.long@linaro.org&gt;
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
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Suggested change from Oleg Nesterov. Fixes incomplete dependencies
for uprobes feature.

Signed-off-by: David A. Long &lt;dave.long@linaro.org&gt;
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
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