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<title>linux-toradex.git/kernel/trace, branch v4.1-rc2</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs</title>
<updated>2015-04-27T00:22:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-04-26T22:48:49+00:00</published>
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Pull fourth vfs update from Al Viro:
 "d_inode() annotations from David Howells (sat in for-next since before
  the beginning of merge window) + four assorted fixes"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  RCU pathwalk breakage when running into a symlink overmounting something
  fix I_DIO_WAKEUP definition
  direct-io: only inc/dec inode-&gt;i_dio_count for file systems
  fs/9p: fix readdir()
  VFS: assorted d_backing_inode() annotations
  VFS: fs/inode.c helpers: d_inode() annotations
  VFS: fs/cachefiles: d_backing_inode() annotations
  VFS: fs library helpers: d_inode() annotations
  VFS: assorted weird filesystems: d_inode() annotations
  VFS: normal filesystems (and lustre): d_inode() annotations
  VFS: security/: d_inode() annotations
  VFS: security/: d_backing_inode() annotations
  VFS: net/: d_inode() annotations
  VFS: net/unix: d_backing_inode() annotations
  VFS: kernel/: d_inode() annotations
  VFS: audit: d_backing_inode() annotations
  VFS: Fix up some -&gt;d_inode accesses in the chelsio driver
  VFS: Cachefiles should perform fs modifications on the top layer only
  VFS: AF_UNIX sockets should call mknod on the top layer only
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Pull fourth vfs update from Al Viro:
 "d_inode() annotations from David Howells (sat in for-next since before
  the beginning of merge window) + four assorted fixes"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  RCU pathwalk breakage when running into a symlink overmounting something
  fix I_DIO_WAKEUP definition
  direct-io: only inc/dec inode-&gt;i_dio_count for file systems
  fs/9p: fix readdir()
  VFS: assorted d_backing_inode() annotations
  VFS: fs/inode.c helpers: d_inode() annotations
  VFS: fs/cachefiles: d_backing_inode() annotations
  VFS: fs library helpers: d_inode() annotations
  VFS: assorted weird filesystems: d_inode() annotations
  VFS: normal filesystems (and lustre): d_inode() annotations
  VFS: security/: d_inode() annotations
  VFS: security/: d_backing_inode() annotations
  VFS: net/: d_inode() annotations
  VFS: net/unix: d_backing_inode() annotations
  VFS: kernel/: d_inode() annotations
  VFS: audit: d_backing_inode() annotations
  VFS: Fix up some -&gt;d_inode accesses in the chelsio driver
  VFS: Cachefiles should perform fs modifications on the top layer only
  VFS: AF_UNIX sockets should call mknod on the top layer only
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'trace-v4.1-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace</title>
<updated>2015-04-22T18:27:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-04-22T18:27:36+00:00</published>
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Pull tracing fixes from Steven Rostedt:
 "This adds three fixes for the tracing code.

  The first is a bug when ftrace_dump_on_oops is triggered in atomic
  context and function graph tracer is the tracer that is being
  reported.

  The second fix is bad parsing of the trace_events from the kernel
  command line, where it would ignore specific events if the system name
  is used with defining the event(it enables all events within the
  system).

  The last one is a fix to the TRACE_DEFINE_ENUM(), where a check was
  missing to see if the ptr was incremented to the end of the string,
  but the loop increments it again and can miss the nul delimiter to
  stop processing"

* tag 'trace-v4.1-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace:
  tracing: Fix possible out of bounds memory access when parsing enums
  tracing: Fix incorrect enabling of trace events by boot cmdline
  tracing: Handle ftrace_dump() atomic context in graph_trace_open()
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Pull tracing fixes from Steven Rostedt:
 "This adds three fixes for the tracing code.

  The first is a bug when ftrace_dump_on_oops is triggered in atomic
  context and function graph tracer is the tracer that is being
  reported.

  The second fix is bad parsing of the trace_events from the kernel
  command line, where it would ignore specific events if the system name
  is used with defining the event(it enables all events within the
  system).

  The last one is a fix to the TRACE_DEFINE_ENUM(), where a check was
  missing to see if the ptr was incremented to the end of the string,
  but the loop increments it again and can miss the nul delimiter to
  stop processing"

* tag 'trace-v4.1-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace:
  tracing: Fix possible out of bounds memory access when parsing enums
  tracing: Fix incorrect enabling of trace events by boot cmdline
  tracing: Handle ftrace_dump() atomic context in graph_trace_open()
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>tracing: Fix possible out of bounds memory access when parsing enums</title>
<updated>2015-04-17T14:34:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-04-17T14:27:57+00:00</published>
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The code that replaces the enum names with the enum values in the
tracepoints' format files could possible miss the end of string nul
character. This was caused by processing things like backslashes, quotes
and other tokens. After processing the tokens, a check for the nul
character needed to be done before continuing the loop, because the loop
incremented the pointer before doing the check, which could bypass the nul
character.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/552E661D.5060502@oracle.com

Reported-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sasha.levin@oracle.com&gt; # via KASan
Tested-by: Andrey Ryabinin &lt;a.ryabinin@samsung.com&gt;
Fixes: 0c564a538aa9 "tracing: Add TRACE_DEFINE_ENUM() macro to map enums to their values"
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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The code that replaces the enum names with the enum values in the
tracepoints' format files could possible miss the end of string nul
character. This was caused by processing things like backslashes, quotes
and other tokens. After processing the tokens, a check for the nul
character needed to be done before continuing the loop, because the loop
incremented the pointer before doing the check, which could bypass the nul
character.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/552E661D.5060502@oracle.com

Reported-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sasha.levin@oracle.com&gt; # via KASan
Tested-by: Andrey Ryabinin &lt;a.ryabinin@samsung.com&gt;
Fixes: 0c564a538aa9 "tracing: Add TRACE_DEFINE_ENUM() macro to map enums to their values"
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>tracing: Fix incorrect enabling of trace events by boot cmdline</title>
<updated>2015-04-16T13:44:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Joonsoo Kim</name>
<email>iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-04-16T04:44:44+00:00</published>
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There is a problem that trace events are not properly enabled with
boot cmdline. The problem is that if we pass "trace_event=kmem:mm_page_alloc"
to the boot cmdline, it enables all kmem trace events, and not just
the page_alloc event.

This is caused by the parsing mechanism. When we parse the cmdline, the buffer
contents is modified due to tokenization. And, if we use this buffer
again, we will get the wrong result.

Unfortunately, this buffer is be accessed three times to set trace events
properly at boot time. So, we need to handle this situation.

There is already code handling ",", but we need another for ":".
This patch adds it.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1429159484-22977-1-git-send-email-iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.19+
Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim &lt;iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com&gt;
[ added missing return ret; ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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There is a problem that trace events are not properly enabled with
boot cmdline. The problem is that if we pass "trace_event=kmem:mm_page_alloc"
to the boot cmdline, it enables all kmem trace events, and not just
the page_alloc event.

This is caused by the parsing mechanism. When we parse the cmdline, the buffer
contents is modified due to tokenization. And, if we use this buffer
again, we will get the wrong result.

Unfortunately, this buffer is be accessed three times to set trace events
properly at boot time. So, we need to handle this situation.

There is already code handling ",", but we need another for ":".
This patch adds it.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1429159484-22977-1-git-send-email-iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.19+
Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim &lt;iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com&gt;
[ added missing return ret; ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>tracing: Handle ftrace_dump() atomic context in graph_trace_open()</title>
<updated>2015-04-16T13:32:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rabin Vincent</name>
<email>rabin@rab.in</email>
</author>
<published>2015-04-13T20:30:12+00:00</published>
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graph_trace_open() can be called in atomic context from ftrace_dump().
Use GFP_ATOMIC for the memory allocations when that's the case, in order
to avoid the following splat.

 BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at mm/slab.c:2849
 in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 128, pid: 0, name: swapper/0
 Backtrace:
 ..
 [&lt;8004dc94&gt;] (__might_sleep) from [&lt;801371f4&gt;] (kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x160/0x238)
  r7:87800040 r6:000080d0 r5:810d16e8 r4:000080d0
 [&lt;80137094&gt;] (kmem_cache_alloc_trace) from [&lt;800cbd60&gt;] (graph_trace_open+0x30/0xd0)
  r10:00000100 r9:809171a8 r8:00008e28 r7:810d16f0 r6:00000001 r5:810d16e8
  r4:810d16f0
 [&lt;800cbd30&gt;] (graph_trace_open) from [&lt;800c79c4&gt;] (trace_init_global_iter+0x50/0x9c)
  r8:00008e28 r7:808c853c r6:00000001 r5:810d16e8 r4:810d16f0 r3:800cbd30
 [&lt;800c7974&gt;] (trace_init_global_iter) from [&lt;800c7aa0&gt;] (ftrace_dump+0x90/0x2ec)
  r4:810d2580 r3:00000000
 [&lt;800c7a10&gt;] (ftrace_dump) from [&lt;80414b2c&gt;] (sysrq_ftrace_dump+0x1c/0x20)
  r10:00000100 r9:809171a8 r8:808f6e7c r7:00000001 r6:00000007 r5:0000007a
  r4:808d5394
 [&lt;80414b10&gt;] (sysrq_ftrace_dump) from [&lt;800169b8&gt;] (return_to_handler+0x0/0x18)
 [&lt;80415498&gt;] (__handle_sysrq) from [&lt;800169b8&gt;] (return_to_handler+0x0/0x18)
  r8:808c8100 r7:808c8444 r6:00000101 r5:00000010 r4:84eb3210
 [&lt;80415668&gt;] (handle_sysrq) from [&lt;800169b8&gt;] (return_to_handler+0x0/0x18)
 [&lt;8042a760&gt;] (pl011_int) from [&lt;800169b8&gt;] (return_to_handler+0x0/0x18)
  r10:809171bc r9:809171a8 r8:00000001 r7:00000026 r6:808c6000 r5:84f01e60
  r4:8454fe00
 [&lt;8007782c&gt;] (handle_irq_event_percpu) from [&lt;80077b44&gt;] (handle_irq_event+0x4c/0x6c)
  r10:808c7ef0 r9:87283e00 r8:00000001 r7:00000000 r6:8454fe00 r5:84f01e60
  r4:84f01e00
 [&lt;80077af8&gt;] (handle_irq_event) from [&lt;8007aa28&gt;] (handle_fasteoi_irq+0xf0/0x1ac)
  r6:808f52a4 r5:84f01e60 r4:84f01e00 r3:00000000
 [&lt;8007a938&gt;] (handle_fasteoi_irq) from [&lt;80076dc0&gt;] (generic_handle_irq+0x3c/0x4c)
  r6:00000026 r5:00000000 r4:00000026 r3:8007a938
 [&lt;80076d84&gt;] (generic_handle_irq) from [&lt;80077128&gt;] (__handle_domain_irq+0x8c/0xfc)
  r4:808c1e38 r3:0000002e
 [&lt;8007709c&gt;] (__handle_domain_irq) from [&lt;800087b8&gt;] (gic_handle_irq+0x34/0x6c)
  r10:80917748 r9:00000001 r8:88802100 r7:808c7ef0 r6:808c8fb0 r5:00000015
  r4:8880210c r3:808c7ef0
 [&lt;80008784&gt;] (gic_handle_irq) from [&lt;80014044&gt;] (__irq_svc+0x44/0x7c)

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1428953721-31349-1-git-send-email-rabin@rab.in
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1428957012-2319-1-git-send-email-rabin@rab.in

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.13+
Signed-off-by: Rabin Vincent &lt;rabin@rab.in&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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graph_trace_open() can be called in atomic context from ftrace_dump().
Use GFP_ATOMIC for the memory allocations when that's the case, in order
to avoid the following splat.

 BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at mm/slab.c:2849
 in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 128, pid: 0, name: swapper/0
 Backtrace:
 ..
 [&lt;8004dc94&gt;] (__might_sleep) from [&lt;801371f4&gt;] (kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x160/0x238)
  r7:87800040 r6:000080d0 r5:810d16e8 r4:000080d0
 [&lt;80137094&gt;] (kmem_cache_alloc_trace) from [&lt;800cbd60&gt;] (graph_trace_open+0x30/0xd0)
  r10:00000100 r9:809171a8 r8:00008e28 r7:810d16f0 r6:00000001 r5:810d16e8
  r4:810d16f0
 [&lt;800cbd30&gt;] (graph_trace_open) from [&lt;800c79c4&gt;] (trace_init_global_iter+0x50/0x9c)
  r8:00008e28 r7:808c853c r6:00000001 r5:810d16e8 r4:810d16f0 r3:800cbd30
 [&lt;800c7974&gt;] (trace_init_global_iter) from [&lt;800c7aa0&gt;] (ftrace_dump+0x90/0x2ec)
  r4:810d2580 r3:00000000
 [&lt;800c7a10&gt;] (ftrace_dump) from [&lt;80414b2c&gt;] (sysrq_ftrace_dump+0x1c/0x20)
  r10:00000100 r9:809171a8 r8:808f6e7c r7:00000001 r6:00000007 r5:0000007a
  r4:808d5394
 [&lt;80414b10&gt;] (sysrq_ftrace_dump) from [&lt;800169b8&gt;] (return_to_handler+0x0/0x18)
 [&lt;80415498&gt;] (__handle_sysrq) from [&lt;800169b8&gt;] (return_to_handler+0x0/0x18)
  r8:808c8100 r7:808c8444 r6:00000101 r5:00000010 r4:84eb3210
 [&lt;80415668&gt;] (handle_sysrq) from [&lt;800169b8&gt;] (return_to_handler+0x0/0x18)
 [&lt;8042a760&gt;] (pl011_int) from [&lt;800169b8&gt;] (return_to_handler+0x0/0x18)
  r10:809171bc r9:809171a8 r8:00000001 r7:00000026 r6:808c6000 r5:84f01e60
  r4:8454fe00
 [&lt;8007782c&gt;] (handle_irq_event_percpu) from [&lt;80077b44&gt;] (handle_irq_event+0x4c/0x6c)
  r10:808c7ef0 r9:87283e00 r8:00000001 r7:00000000 r6:8454fe00 r5:84f01e60
  r4:84f01e00
 [&lt;80077af8&gt;] (handle_irq_event) from [&lt;8007aa28&gt;] (handle_fasteoi_irq+0xf0/0x1ac)
  r6:808f52a4 r5:84f01e60 r4:84f01e00 r3:00000000
 [&lt;8007a938&gt;] (handle_fasteoi_irq) from [&lt;80076dc0&gt;] (generic_handle_irq+0x3c/0x4c)
  r6:00000026 r5:00000000 r4:00000026 r3:8007a938
 [&lt;80076d84&gt;] (generic_handle_irq) from [&lt;80077128&gt;] (__handle_domain_irq+0x8c/0xfc)
  r4:808c1e38 r3:0000002e
 [&lt;8007709c&gt;] (__handle_domain_irq) from [&lt;800087b8&gt;] (gic_handle_irq+0x34/0x6c)
  r10:80917748 r9:00000001 r8:88802100 r7:808c7ef0 r6:808c8fb0 r5:00000015
  r4:8880210c r3:808c7ef0
 [&lt;80008784&gt;] (gic_handle_irq) from [&lt;80014044&gt;] (__irq_svc+0x44/0x7c)

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1428953721-31349-1-git-send-email-rabin@rab.in
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1428957012-2319-1-git-send-email-rabin@rab.in

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.13+
Signed-off-by: Rabin Vincent &lt;rabin@rab.in&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>tracing: remove use of seq_printf return value</title>
<updated>2015-04-15T23:35:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Joe Perches</name>
<email>joe@perches.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-04-15T23:18:22+00:00</published>
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The seq_printf return value, because it's frequently misused,
will eventually be converted to void.

See: commit 1f33c41c03da ("seq_file: Rename seq_overflow() to
     seq_has_overflowed() and make public")

Miscellanea:

o Remove unused return value from trace_lookup_stack

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches &lt;joe@perches.com&gt;
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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The seq_printf return value, because it's frequently misused,
will eventually be converted to void.

See: commit 1f33c41c03da ("seq_file: Rename seq_overflow() to
     seq_has_overflowed() and make public")

Miscellanea:

o Remove unused return value from trace_lookup_stack

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches &lt;joe@perches.com&gt;
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>VFS: kernel/: d_inode() annotations</title>
<updated>2015-04-15T19:06:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-03-17T22:26:16+00:00</published>
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relayfs and tracefs are dealing with inodes of their own;
those two act as filesystem drivers

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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relayfs and tracefs are dealing with inodes of their own;
those two act as filesystem drivers

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<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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<title>Merge tag 'trace-v4.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace</title>
<updated>2015-04-14T17:49:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-04-14T17:49:03+00:00</published>
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Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
 "Some clean ups and small fixes, but the biggest change is the addition
  of the TRACE_DEFINE_ENUM() macro that can be used by tracepoints.

  Tracepoints have helper functions for the TP_printk() called
  __print_symbolic() and __print_flags() that lets a numeric number be
  displayed as a a human comprehensible text.  What is placed in the
  TP_printk() is also shown in the tracepoint format file such that user
  space tools like perf and trace-cmd can parse the binary data and
  express the values too.  Unfortunately, the way the TRACE_EVENT()
  macro works, anything placed in the TP_printk() will be shown pretty
  much exactly as is.  The problem arises when enums are used.  That's
  because unlike macros, enums will not be changed into their values by
  the C pre-processor.  Thus, the enum string is exported to the format
  file, and this makes it useless for user space tools.

  The TRACE_DEFINE_ENUM() solves this by converting the enum strings in
  the TP_printk() format into their number, and that is what is shown to
  user space.  For example, the tracepoint tlb_flush currently has this
  in its format file:

     __print_symbolic(REC-&gt;reason,
        { TLB_FLUSH_ON_TASK_SWITCH, "flush on task switch" },
        { TLB_REMOTE_SHOOTDOWN, "remote shootdown" },
        { TLB_LOCAL_SHOOTDOWN, "local shootdown" },
        { TLB_LOCAL_MM_SHOOTDOWN, "local mm shootdown" })

  After adding:

     TRACE_DEFINE_ENUM(TLB_FLUSH_ON_TASK_SWITCH);
     TRACE_DEFINE_ENUM(TLB_REMOTE_SHOOTDOWN);
     TRACE_DEFINE_ENUM(TLB_LOCAL_SHOOTDOWN);
     TRACE_DEFINE_ENUM(TLB_LOCAL_MM_SHOOTDOWN);

  Its format file will contain this:

     __print_symbolic(REC-&gt;reason,
        { 0, "flush on task switch" },
        { 1, "remote shootdown" },
        { 2, "local shootdown" },
        { 3, "local mm shootdown" })"

* tag 'trace-v4.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (27 commits)
  tracing: Add enum_map file to show enums that have been mapped
  writeback: Export enums used by tracepoint to user space
  v4l: Export enums used by tracepoints to user space
  SUNRPC: Export enums in tracepoints to user space
  mm: tracing: Export enums in tracepoints to user space
  irq/tracing: Export enums in tracepoints to user space
  f2fs: Export the enums in the tracepoints to userspace
  net/9p/tracing: Export enums in tracepoints to userspace
  x86/tlb/trace: Export enums in used by tlb_flush tracepoint
  tracing/samples: Update the trace-event-sample.h with TRACE_DEFINE_ENUM()
  tracing: Allow for modules to convert their enums to values
  tracing: Add TRACE_DEFINE_ENUM() macro to map enums to their values
  tracing: Update trace-event-sample with TRACE_SYSTEM_VAR documentation
  tracing: Give system name a pointer
  brcmsmac: Move each system tracepoints to their own header
  iwlwifi: Move each system tracepoints to their own header
  mac80211: Move message tracepoints to their own header
  tracing: Add TRACE_SYSTEM_VAR to xhci-hcd
  tracing: Add TRACE_SYSTEM_VAR to kvm-s390
  tracing: Add TRACE_SYSTEM_VAR to intel-sst
  ...
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Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
 "Some clean ups and small fixes, but the biggest change is the addition
  of the TRACE_DEFINE_ENUM() macro that can be used by tracepoints.

  Tracepoints have helper functions for the TP_printk() called
  __print_symbolic() and __print_flags() that lets a numeric number be
  displayed as a a human comprehensible text.  What is placed in the
  TP_printk() is also shown in the tracepoint format file such that user
  space tools like perf and trace-cmd can parse the binary data and
  express the values too.  Unfortunately, the way the TRACE_EVENT()
  macro works, anything placed in the TP_printk() will be shown pretty
  much exactly as is.  The problem arises when enums are used.  That's
  because unlike macros, enums will not be changed into their values by
  the C pre-processor.  Thus, the enum string is exported to the format
  file, and this makes it useless for user space tools.

  The TRACE_DEFINE_ENUM() solves this by converting the enum strings in
  the TP_printk() format into their number, and that is what is shown to
  user space.  For example, the tracepoint tlb_flush currently has this
  in its format file:

     __print_symbolic(REC-&gt;reason,
        { TLB_FLUSH_ON_TASK_SWITCH, "flush on task switch" },
        { TLB_REMOTE_SHOOTDOWN, "remote shootdown" },
        { TLB_LOCAL_SHOOTDOWN, "local shootdown" },
        { TLB_LOCAL_MM_SHOOTDOWN, "local mm shootdown" })

  After adding:

     TRACE_DEFINE_ENUM(TLB_FLUSH_ON_TASK_SWITCH);
     TRACE_DEFINE_ENUM(TLB_REMOTE_SHOOTDOWN);
     TRACE_DEFINE_ENUM(TLB_LOCAL_SHOOTDOWN);
     TRACE_DEFINE_ENUM(TLB_LOCAL_MM_SHOOTDOWN);

  Its format file will contain this:

     __print_symbolic(REC-&gt;reason,
        { 0, "flush on task switch" },
        { 1, "remote shootdown" },
        { 2, "local shootdown" },
        { 3, "local mm shootdown" })"

* tag 'trace-v4.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (27 commits)
  tracing: Add enum_map file to show enums that have been mapped
  writeback: Export enums used by tracepoint to user space
  v4l: Export enums used by tracepoints to user space
  SUNRPC: Export enums in tracepoints to user space
  mm: tracing: Export enums in tracepoints to user space
  irq/tracing: Export enums in tracepoints to user space
  f2fs: Export the enums in the tracepoints to userspace
  net/9p/tracing: Export enums in tracepoints to userspace
  x86/tlb/trace: Export enums in used by tlb_flush tracepoint
  tracing/samples: Update the trace-event-sample.h with TRACE_DEFINE_ENUM()
  tracing: Allow for modules to convert their enums to values
  tracing: Add TRACE_DEFINE_ENUM() macro to map enums to their values
  tracing: Update trace-event-sample with TRACE_SYSTEM_VAR documentation
  tracing: Give system name a pointer
  brcmsmac: Move each system tracepoints to their own header
  iwlwifi: Move each system tracepoints to their own header
  mac80211: Move message tracepoints to their own header
  tracing: Add TRACE_SYSTEM_VAR to xhci-hcd
  tracing: Add TRACE_SYSTEM_VAR to kvm-s390
  tracing: Add TRACE_SYSTEM_VAR to intel-sst
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'trace-4.1-tracefs' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace</title>
<updated>2015-04-14T17:22:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-04-14T17:22:29+00:00</published>
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Pull tracefs from Steven Rostedt:
 "This adds the new tracefs file system.

  This has been in linux-next for more than one release, as I had it
  ready for the 4.0 merge window, but a last minute thing that needed to
  go into Linux first had to be done.  That was that perf hard coded the
  file system number when reading /sys/kernel/debugfs/tracing directory
  making sure that the path had the debugfs mount # before it would
  parse the tracing file.  This broke other use cases of perf, and the
  check is removed.

  Now when mounting /sys/kernel/debug, tracefs is automatically mounted
  in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing such that old tools will still see that
  path as expected.  But now system admins can mount tracefs directly
  and not need to mount debugfs, which can expose security issues.  A
  new directory is created when tracefs is configured such that system
  admins can now mount it separately (/sys/kernel/tracing)"

* tag 'trace-4.1-tracefs' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace:
  tracing: Have mkdir and rmdir be part of tracefs
  tracefs: Add directory /sys/kernel/tracing
  tracing: Automatically mount tracefs on debugfs/tracing
  tracing: Convert the tracing facility over to use tracefs
  tracefs: Add new tracefs file system
  tracing: Create cmdline tracer options on tracing fs init
  tracing: Only create tracer options files if directory exists
  debugfs: Provide a file creation function that also takes an initial size
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Pull tracefs from Steven Rostedt:
 "This adds the new tracefs file system.

  This has been in linux-next for more than one release, as I had it
  ready for the 4.0 merge window, but a last minute thing that needed to
  go into Linux first had to be done.  That was that perf hard coded the
  file system number when reading /sys/kernel/debugfs/tracing directory
  making sure that the path had the debugfs mount # before it would
  parse the tracing file.  This broke other use cases of perf, and the
  check is removed.

  Now when mounting /sys/kernel/debug, tracefs is automatically mounted
  in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing such that old tools will still see that
  path as expected.  But now system admins can mount tracefs directly
  and not need to mount debugfs, which can expose security issues.  A
  new directory is created when tracefs is configured such that system
  admins can now mount it separately (/sys/kernel/tracing)"

* tag 'trace-4.1-tracefs' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace:
  tracing: Have mkdir and rmdir be part of tracefs
  tracefs: Add directory /sys/kernel/tracing
  tracing: Automatically mount tracefs on debugfs/tracing
  tracing: Convert the tracing facility over to use tracefs
  tracefs: Add new tracefs file system
  tracing: Create cmdline tracer options on tracing fs init
  tracing: Only create tracer options files if directory exists
  debugfs: Provide a file creation function that also takes an initial size
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