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<title>tracing: Fix ftrace_event_call alignment for use with gcc 4.5</title>
<updated>2010-03-15T16:06:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jeff Mahoney</name>
<email>jeffm@suse.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-02-24T18:59:23+00:00</published>
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commit 86c38a31aa7f2dd6e74a262710bf8ebf7455acc5 upstream.

GCC 4.5 introduces behavior that forces the alignment of structures to
 use the largest possible value. The default value is 32 bytes, so if
 some structures are defined with a 4-byte alignment and others aren't
 declared with an alignment constraint at all - it will align at 32-bytes.

 For things like the ftrace events, this results in a non-standard array.
 When initializing the ftrace subsystem, we traverse the _ftrace_events
 section and call the initialization callback for each event. When the
 structures are misaligned, we could be treating another part of the
 structure (or the zeroed out space between them) as a function pointer.

 This patch forces the alignment for all the ftrace_event_call structures
 to 4 bytes.

 Without this patch, the kernel fails to boot very early when built with
 gcc 4.5.

 It's trivial to check the alignment of the members of the array, so it
 might be worthwhile to add something to the build system to do that
 automatically. Unfortunately, that only covers this case. I've asked one
 of the gcc developers about adding a warning when this condition is seen.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney &lt;jeffm@suse.com&gt;
LKML-Reference: &lt;4B85770B.6010901@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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commit 86c38a31aa7f2dd6e74a262710bf8ebf7455acc5 upstream.

GCC 4.5 introduces behavior that forces the alignment of structures to
 use the largest possible value. The default value is 32 bytes, so if
 some structures are defined with a 4-byte alignment and others aren't
 declared with an alignment constraint at all - it will align at 32-bytes.

 For things like the ftrace events, this results in a non-standard array.
 When initializing the ftrace subsystem, we traverse the _ftrace_events
 section and call the initialization callback for each event. When the
 structures are misaligned, we could be treating another part of the
 structure (or the zeroed out space between them) as a function pointer.

 This patch forces the alignment for all the ftrace_event_call structures
 to 4 bytes.

 Without this patch, the kernel fails to boot very early when built with
 gcc 4.5.

 It's trivial to check the alignment of the members of the array, so it
 might be worthwhile to add something to the build system to do that
 automatically. Unfortunately, that only covers this case. I've asked one
 of the gcc developers about adding a warning when this condition is seen.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney &lt;jeffm@suse.com&gt;
LKML-Reference: &lt;4B85770B.6010901@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip</title>
<updated>2009-12-16T20:02:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2009-12-16T20:02:25+00:00</published>
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* 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  tracing: Fix return of trace_dump_stack()
  ksym_tracer: Fix bad cast
  tracing/power: Remove two exports
  tracing: Change event-&gt;profile_count to be int type
  tracing: Simplify trace_option_write()
  tracing: Remove useless trace option
  tracing: Use seq file for trace_clock
  tracing: Use seq file for trace_options
  function-graph: Allow writing the same val to set_graph_function
  ftrace: Call trace_parser_clear() properly
  ftrace: Return EINVAL when writing invalid val to set_ftrace_filter
  tracing: Move a printk out of ftrace_raw_reg_event_foo()
  tracing: Pull up calls to trace_define_common_fields()
  tracing: Extract duplicate ftrace_raw_init_event_foo()
  ftrace.h: Use common pr_info fmt string
  tracing: Add stack trace to irqsoff tracer
  tracing: Add trace_dump_stack()
  ring-buffer: Move resize integrity check under reader lock
  ring-buffer: Use sync sched protection on ring buffer resizing
  tracing: Fix wrong usage of strstrip in trace_ksyms
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* 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  tracing: Fix return of trace_dump_stack()
  ksym_tracer: Fix bad cast
  tracing/power: Remove two exports
  tracing: Change event-&gt;profile_count to be int type
  tracing: Simplify trace_option_write()
  tracing: Remove useless trace option
  tracing: Use seq file for trace_clock
  tracing: Use seq file for trace_options
  function-graph: Allow writing the same val to set_graph_function
  ftrace: Call trace_parser_clear() properly
  ftrace: Return EINVAL when writing invalid val to set_ftrace_filter
  tracing: Move a printk out of ftrace_raw_reg_event_foo()
  tracing: Pull up calls to trace_define_common_fields()
  tracing: Extract duplicate ftrace_raw_init_event_foo()
  ftrace.h: Use common pr_info fmt string
  tracing: Add stack trace to irqsoff tracer
  tracing: Add trace_dump_stack()
  ring-buffer: Move resize integrity check under reader lock
  ring-buffer: Use sync sched protection on ring buffer resizing
  tracing: Fix wrong usage of strstrip in trace_ksyms
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu</title>
<updated>2009-12-14T17:58:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2009-12-14T17:58:24+00:00</published>
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* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu: (34 commits)
  m68k: rename global variable vmalloc_end to m68k_vmalloc_end
  percpu: add missing per_cpu_ptr_to_phys() definition for UP
  percpu: Fix kdump failure if booted with percpu_alloc=page
  percpu: make misc percpu symbols unique
  percpu: make percpu symbols in ia64 unique
  percpu: make percpu symbols in powerpc unique
  percpu: make percpu symbols in x86 unique
  percpu: make percpu symbols in xen unique
  percpu: make percpu symbols in cpufreq unique
  percpu: make percpu symbols in oprofile unique
  percpu: make percpu symbols in tracer unique
  percpu: make percpu symbols under kernel/ and mm/ unique
  percpu: remove some sparse warnings
  percpu: make alloc_percpu() handle array types
  vmalloc: fix use of non-existent percpu variable in put_cpu_var()
  this_cpu: Use this_cpu_xx in trace_functions_graph.c
  this_cpu: Use this_cpu_xx for ftrace
  this_cpu: Use this_cpu_xx in nmi handling
  this_cpu: Use this_cpu operations in RCU
  this_cpu: Use this_cpu ops for VM statistics
  ...

Fix up trivial (famous last words) global per-cpu naming conflicts in
	arch/x86/kvm/svm.c
	mm/slab.c
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* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu: (34 commits)
  m68k: rename global variable vmalloc_end to m68k_vmalloc_end
  percpu: add missing per_cpu_ptr_to_phys() definition for UP
  percpu: Fix kdump failure if booted with percpu_alloc=page
  percpu: make misc percpu symbols unique
  percpu: make percpu symbols in ia64 unique
  percpu: make percpu symbols in powerpc unique
  percpu: make percpu symbols in x86 unique
  percpu: make percpu symbols in xen unique
  percpu: make percpu symbols in cpufreq unique
  percpu: make percpu symbols in oprofile unique
  percpu: make percpu symbols in tracer unique
  percpu: make percpu symbols under kernel/ and mm/ unique
  percpu: remove some sparse warnings
  percpu: make alloc_percpu() handle array types
  vmalloc: fix use of non-existent percpu variable in put_cpu_var()
  this_cpu: Use this_cpu_xx in trace_functions_graph.c
  this_cpu: Use this_cpu_xx for ftrace
  this_cpu: Use this_cpu_xx in nmi handling
  this_cpu: Use this_cpu operations in RCU
  this_cpu: Use this_cpu ops for VM statistics
  ...

Fix up trivial (famous last words) global per-cpu naming conflicts in
	arch/x86/kvm/svm.c
	mm/slab.c
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>tracing: Remove useless trace option</title>
<updated>2009-12-13T17:37:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Li Zefan</name>
<email>lizf@cn.fujitsu.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-12-08T03:16:26+00:00</published>
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Since commit 4d9493c90f8e6e1b164aede3814010a290161abb
("ftrace: remove add-hoc code"), option "sched-tree"
has become useless.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan &lt;lizf@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
LKML-Reference: &lt;4B1DC50A.7040402@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
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Since commit 4d9493c90f8e6e1b164aede3814010a290161abb
("ftrace: remove add-hoc code"), option "sched-tree"
has become useless.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan &lt;lizf@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
LKML-Reference: &lt;4B1DC50A.7040402@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>tracing: Add pipe_close interface</title>
<updated>2009-12-07T17:01:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt</name>
<email>srostedt@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-12-07T14:06:24+00:00</published>
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An ftrace plugin can add a pipe_open interface when the user opens
trace_pipe. But if the plugin allocates something within the pipe_open
it can not free it because there exists no pipe_close. The hook to
the trace file open has a corresponding close. The closing of the
trace_pipe file should also have a corresponding close.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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An ftrace plugin can add a pipe_open interface when the user opens
trace_pipe. But if the plugin allocates something within the pipe_open
it can not free it because there exists no pipe_close. The hook to
the trace file open has a corresponding close. The closing of the
trace_pipe file should also have a corresponding close.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>trace/syscalls: Change ret param in struct syscall_trace_exit to long</title>
<updated>2009-11-25T08:06:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tom Zanussi</name>
<email>tzanussi@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-11-25T07:14:59+00:00</published>
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Commit ee949a86b3aef15845ea677aa60231008de62672 ("tracing/syscalls:
Use long for syscall ret format and field definitions") changed the
syscall exit return type to long, but forgot to change it in the
struct.

Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi &lt;tzanussi@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Cc: Mike Galbraith &lt;efault@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
LKML-Reference: &lt;1259133299-23594-3-git-send-email-tzanussi@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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Commit ee949a86b3aef15845ea677aa60231008de62672 ("tracing/syscalls:
Use long for syscall ret format and field definitions") changed the
syscall exit return type to long, but forgot to change it in the
struct.

Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi &lt;tzanussi@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Cc: Mike Galbraith &lt;efault@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
LKML-Reference: &lt;1259133299-23594-3-git-send-email-tzanussi@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'tracing/hw-breakpoints' into perf/core</title>
<updated>2009-11-21T13:07:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ingo Molnar</name>
<email>mingo@elte.hu</email>
</author>
<published>2009-11-21T13:07:23+00:00</published>
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Conflicts:
	arch/x86/kernel/kprobes.c
	kernel/trace/Makefile

Merge reason: hw-breakpoints perf integration is looking
              good in testing and in reviews, plus conflicts
              are mounting up - so merge &amp; resolve.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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Conflicts:
	arch/x86/kernel/kprobes.c
	kernel/trace/Makefile

Merge reason: hw-breakpoints perf integration is looking
              good in testing and in reviews, plus conflicts
              are mounting up - so merge &amp; resolve.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ksym_tracer: Remove KSYM_SELFTEST_ENTRY</title>
<updated>2009-11-08T15:21:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Li Zefan</name>
<email>lizf@cn.fujitsu.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-09-10T01:35:20+00:00</published>
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The macro used to be used in both trace_selftest.c and
trace_ksym.c, but no longer, so remove it from header file.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan &lt;lizf@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: Prasad &lt;prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
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The macro used to be used in both trace_selftest.c and
trace_ksym.c, but no longer, so remove it from header file.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan &lt;lizf@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: Prasad &lt;prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>hw-breakpoints: Rewrite the hw-breakpoints layer on top of perf events</title>
<updated>2009-11-08T14:34:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Frederic Weisbecker</name>
<email>fweisbec@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-09-09T17:22:48+00:00</published>
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This patch rebase the implementation of the breakpoints API on top of
perf events instances.

Each breakpoints are now perf events that handle the
register scheduling, thread/cpu attachment, etc..

The new layering is now made as follows:

       ptrace       kgdb      ftrace   perf syscall
          \          |          /         /
           \         |         /         /
                                        /
            Core breakpoint API        /
                                      /
                     |               /
                     |              /

              Breakpoints perf events

                     |
                     |

               Breakpoints PMU ---- Debug Register constraints handling
                                    (Part of core breakpoint API)
                     |
                     |

             Hardware debug registers

Reasons of this rewrite:

- Use the centralized/optimized pmu registers scheduling,
  implying an easier arch integration
- More powerful register handling: perf attributes (pinned/flexible
  events, exclusive/non-exclusive, tunable period, etc...)

Impact:

- New perf ABI: the hardware breakpoints counters
- Ptrace breakpoints setting remains tricky and still needs some per
  thread breakpoints references.

Todo (in the order):

- Support breakpoints perf counter events for perf tools (ie: implement
  perf_bpcounter_event())
- Support from perf tools

Changes in v2:

- Follow the perf "event " rename
- The ptrace regression have been fixed (ptrace breakpoint perf events
  weren't released when a task ended)
- Drop the struct hw_breakpoint and store generic fields in
  perf_event_attr.
- Separate core and arch specific headers, drop
  asm-generic/hw_breakpoint.h and create linux/hw_breakpoint.h
- Use new generic len/type for breakpoint
- Handle off case: when breakpoints api is not supported by an arch

Changes in v3:

- Fix broken CONFIG_KVM, we need to propagate the breakpoint api
  changes to kvm when we exit the guest and restore the bp registers
  to the host.

Changes in v4:

- Drop the hw_breakpoint_restore() stub as it is only used by KVM
- EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL hw_breakpoint_restore() as KVM can be built as a
  module
- Restore the breakpoints unconditionally on kvm guest exit:
  TIF_DEBUG_THREAD doesn't anymore cover every cases of running
  breakpoints and vcpu-&gt;arch.switch_db_regs might not always be
  set when the guest used debug registers.
  (Waiting for a reliable optimization)

Changes in v5:

- Split-up the asm-generic/hw-breakpoint.h moving to
  linux/hw_breakpoint.h into a separate patch
- Optimize the breakpoints restoring while switching from kvm guest
  to host. We only want to restore the state if we have active
  breakpoints to the host, otherwise we don't care about messed-up
  address registers.
- Add asm/hw_breakpoint.h to Kbuild
- Fix bad breakpoint type in trace_selftest.c

Changes in v6:

- Fix wrong header inclusion in trace.h (triggered a build
  error with CONFIG_FTRACE_SELFTEST

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Prasad &lt;prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Alan Stern &lt;stern@rowland.harvard.edu&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Cc: Jan Kiszka &lt;jan.kiszka@web.de&gt;
Cc: Jiri Slaby &lt;jirislaby@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Li Zefan &lt;lizf@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: Avi Kivity &lt;avi@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Mike Galbraith &lt;efault@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Mundt &lt;lethal@linux-sh.org&gt;
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This patch rebase the implementation of the breakpoints API on top of
perf events instances.

Each breakpoints are now perf events that handle the
register scheduling, thread/cpu attachment, etc..

The new layering is now made as follows:

       ptrace       kgdb      ftrace   perf syscall
          \          |          /         /
           \         |         /         /
                                        /
            Core breakpoint API        /
                                      /
                     |               /
                     |              /

              Breakpoints perf events

                     |
                     |

               Breakpoints PMU ---- Debug Register constraints handling
                                    (Part of core breakpoint API)
                     |
                     |

             Hardware debug registers

Reasons of this rewrite:

- Use the centralized/optimized pmu registers scheduling,
  implying an easier arch integration
- More powerful register handling: perf attributes (pinned/flexible
  events, exclusive/non-exclusive, tunable period, etc...)

Impact:

- New perf ABI: the hardware breakpoints counters
- Ptrace breakpoints setting remains tricky and still needs some per
  thread breakpoints references.

Todo (in the order):

- Support breakpoints perf counter events for perf tools (ie: implement
  perf_bpcounter_event())
- Support from perf tools

Changes in v2:

- Follow the perf "event " rename
- The ptrace regression have been fixed (ptrace breakpoint perf events
  weren't released when a task ended)
- Drop the struct hw_breakpoint and store generic fields in
  perf_event_attr.
- Separate core and arch specific headers, drop
  asm-generic/hw_breakpoint.h and create linux/hw_breakpoint.h
- Use new generic len/type for breakpoint
- Handle off case: when breakpoints api is not supported by an arch

Changes in v3:

- Fix broken CONFIG_KVM, we need to propagate the breakpoint api
  changes to kvm when we exit the guest and restore the bp registers
  to the host.

Changes in v4:

- Drop the hw_breakpoint_restore() stub as it is only used by KVM
- EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL hw_breakpoint_restore() as KVM can be built as a
  module
- Restore the breakpoints unconditionally on kvm guest exit:
  TIF_DEBUG_THREAD doesn't anymore cover every cases of running
  breakpoints and vcpu-&gt;arch.switch_db_regs might not always be
  set when the guest used debug registers.
  (Waiting for a reliable optimization)

Changes in v5:

- Split-up the asm-generic/hw-breakpoint.h moving to
  linux/hw_breakpoint.h into a separate patch
- Optimize the breakpoints restoring while switching from kvm guest
  to host. We only want to restore the state if we have active
  breakpoints to the host, otherwise we don't care about messed-up
  address registers.
- Add asm/hw_breakpoint.h to Kbuild
- Fix bad breakpoint type in trace_selftest.c

Changes in v6:

- Fix wrong header inclusion in trace.h (triggered a build
  error with CONFIG_FTRACE_SELFTEST

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Prasad &lt;prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Alan Stern &lt;stern@rowland.harvard.edu&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Cc: Jan Kiszka &lt;jan.kiszka@web.de&gt;
Cc: Jiri Slaby &lt;jirislaby@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Li Zefan &lt;lizf@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: Avi Kivity &lt;avi@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Mike Galbraith &lt;efault@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Mundt &lt;lethal@linux-sh.org&gt;
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<title>Merge branch 'perf/core' into perf/probes</title>
<updated>2009-10-23T06:23:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ingo Molnar</name>
<email>mingo@elte.hu</email>
</author>
<published>2009-10-23T06:23:20+00:00</published>
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Conflicts:
	tools/perf/Makefile

Merge reason:

 - fix the conflict
 - pick up the pr_*() infrastructure to queue up dependent patch

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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Conflicts:
	tools/perf/Makefile

Merge reason:

 - fix the conflict
 - pick up the pr_*() infrastructure to queue up dependent patch

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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