linux/Documentation
Linus Torvalds e71c2c1eeb Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull perf updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "Main kernel side changes:

   - Big reorganization of the x86 perf support code.  The old code grew
     organically deep inside arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf* and its naming
     became somewhat messy.

     The new location is under arch/x86/events/, using the following
     cleaner hierarchy of source code files:

       perf/x86: Move perf_event.c .................. => x86/events/core.c
       perf/x86: Move perf_event_amd.c .............. => x86/events/amd/core.c
       perf/x86: Move perf_event_amd_ibs.c .......... => x86/events/amd/ibs.c
       perf/x86: Move perf_event_amd_iommu.[ch] ..... => x86/events/amd/iommu.[ch]
       perf/x86: Move perf_event_amd_uncore.c ....... => x86/events/amd/uncore.c
       perf/x86: Move perf_event_intel_bts.c ........ => x86/events/intel/bts.c
       perf/x86: Move perf_event_intel.c ............ => x86/events/intel/core.c
       perf/x86: Move perf_event_intel_cqm.c ........ => x86/events/intel/cqm.c
       perf/x86: Move perf_event_intel_cstate.c ..... => x86/events/intel/cstate.c
       perf/x86: Move perf_event_intel_ds.c ......... => x86/events/intel/ds.c
       perf/x86: Move perf_event_intel_lbr.c ........ => x86/events/intel/lbr.c
       perf/x86: Move perf_event_intel_pt.[ch] ...... => x86/events/intel/pt.[ch]
       perf/x86: Move perf_event_intel_rapl.c ....... => x86/events/intel/rapl.c
       perf/x86: Move perf_event_intel_uncore.[ch] .. => x86/events/intel/uncore.[ch]
       perf/x86: Move perf_event_intel_uncore_nhmex.c => x86/events/intel/uncore_nmhex.c
       perf/x86: Move perf_event_intel_uncore_snb.c   => x86/events/intel/uncore_snb.c
       perf/x86: Move perf_event_intel_uncore_snbep.c => x86/events/intel/uncore_snbep.c
       perf/x86: Move perf_event_knc.c .............. => x86/events/intel/knc.c
       perf/x86: Move perf_event_p4.c ............... => x86/events/intel/p4.c
       perf/x86: Move perf_event_p6.c ............... => x86/events/intel/p6.c
       perf/x86: Move perf_event_msr.c .............. => x86/events/msr.c

     (Borislav Petkov)

   - Update various x86 PMU constraint and hw support details (Stephane
     Eranian)

   - Optimize kprobes for BPF execution (Martin KaFai Lau)

   - Rewrite, refactor and fix the Intel uncore PMU driver code (Thomas
     Gleixner)

   - Rewrite, refactor and fix the Intel RAPL PMU code (Thomas Gleixner)

   - Various fixes and smaller cleanups.

  There are lots of perf tooling updates as well.  A few highlights:

  perf report/top:

     - Hierarchy histogram mode for 'perf top' and 'perf report',
       showing multiple levels, one per --sort entry: (Namhyung Kim)

       On a mostly idle system:

         # perf top --hierarchy -s comm,dso

       Then expand some levels and use 'P' to take a snapshot:

         # cat perf.hist.0
         -  92.32%         perf
               58.20%         perf
               22.29%         libc-2.22.so
                5.97%         [kernel]
                4.18%         libelf-0.165.so
                1.69%         [unknown]
         -   4.71%         qemu-system-x86
                3.10%         [kernel]
                1.60%         qemu-system-x86_64 (deleted)
         +   2.97%         swapper
         #

     - Add 'L' hotkey to dynamicly set the percent threshold for
       histogram entries and callchains, i.e.  dynamicly do what the
       --percent-limit command line option to 'top' and 'report' does.
       (Namhyung Kim)

  perf mem:

     - Allow specifying events via -e in 'perf mem record', also listing
       what events can be specified via 'perf mem record -e list' (Jiri
       Olsa)

  perf record:

     - Add 'perf record' --all-user/--all-kernel options, so that one
       can tell that all the events in the command line should be
       restricted to the user or kernel levels (Jiri Olsa), i.e.:

         perf record -e cycles:u,instructions:u

       is equivalent to:

         perf record --all-user -e cycles,instructions

     - Make 'perf record' collect CPU cache info in the perf.data file header:

         $ perf record usleep 1
         [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
         [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.017 MB perf.data (7 samples) ]
         $ perf report --header-only -I | tail -10 | head -8
         # CPU cache info:
         #  L1 Data                 32K [0-1]
         #  L1 Instruction          32K [0-1]
         #  L1 Data                 32K [2-3]
         #  L1 Instruction          32K [2-3]
         #  L2 Unified             256K [0-1]
         #  L2 Unified             256K [2-3]
         #  L3 Unified            4096K [0-3]

       Will be used in 'perf c2c' and eventually in 'perf diff' to
       allow, for instance running the same workload in multiple
       machines and then when using 'diff' show the hardware difference.
       (Jiri Olsa)

     - Improved support for Java, using the JVMTI agent library to do
       jitdumps that then will be inserted in synthesized
       PERF_RECORD_MMAP2 events via 'perf inject' pointed to synthesized
       ELF files stored in ~/.debug and keyed with build-ids, to allow
       symbol resolution and even annotation with source line info, see
       the changeset comments to see how to use it (Stephane Eranian)

  perf script/trace:

     - Decode data_src values (e.g.  perf.data files generated by 'perf
       mem record') in 'perf script': (Jiri Olsa)

         # perf script
           perf 693 [1] 4.088652: 1 cpu/mem-loads,ldlat=30/P: ffff88007d0b0f40 68100142 L1 hit|SNP None|TLB L1 or L2 hit|LCK No <SNIP>
                                                                              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
     - Improve support to 'data_src', 'weight' and 'addr' fields in
       'perf script' (Jiri Olsa)

     - Handle empty print fmts in 'perf script -s' i.e. when running
       python or perl scripts (Taeung Song)

  perf stat:

     - 'perf stat' now shows shadow metrics (insn per cycle, etc) in
       interval mode too.  E.g:

         # perf stat -I 1000 -e instructions,cycles sleep 1
         #         time   counts unit events
            1.000215928  519,620      instructions     #  0.69 insn per cycle
            1.000215928  752,003      cycles
         <SNIP>

     - Port 'perf kvm stat' to PowerPC (Hemant Kumar)

     - Implement CSV metrics output in 'perf stat' (Andi Kleen)

  perf BPF support:

     - Support converting data from bpf events in 'perf data' (Wang Nan)

     - Print bpf-output events in 'perf script': (Wang Nan).

         # perf record -e bpf-output/no-inherit,name=evt/ -e ./test_bpf_output_3.c/map:channel.event=evt/ usleep 1000
         # perf script
            usleep  4882 21384.532523:   evt:  ffffffff810e97d1 sys_nanosleep ([kernel.kallsyms])
             BPF output: 0000: 52 61 69 73 65 20 61 20  Raise a
                         0008: 42 50 46 20 65 76 65 6e  BPF even
                         0010: 74 21 00 00              t!..
             BPF string: "Raise a BPF event!"
         #

     - Add API to set values of map entries in a BPF object, be it
       individual map slots or ranges (Wang Nan)

     - Introduce support for the 'bpf-output' event (Wang Nan)

     - Add glue to read perf events in a BPF program (Wang Nan)

     - Improve support for bpf-output events in 'perf trace' (Wang Nan)

  ... and tons of other changes as well - see the shortlog and git log
  for details!"

* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (342 commits)
  perf stat: Add --metric-only support for -A
  perf stat: Implement --metric-only mode
  perf stat: Document CSV format in manpage
  perf hists browser: Check sort keys before hot key actions
  perf hists browser: Allow thread filtering for comm sort key
  perf tools: Add sort__has_comm variable
  perf tools: Recalc total periods using top-level entries in hierarchy
  perf tools: Remove nr_sort_keys field
  perf hists browser: Cleanup hist_browser__fprintf_hierarchy_entry()
  perf tools: Remove hist_entry->fmt field
  perf tools: Fix command line filters in hierarchy mode
  perf tools: Add more sort entry check functions
  perf tools: Fix hist_entry__filter() for hierarchy
  perf jitdump: Build only on supported archs
  tools lib traceevent: Add '~' operation within arg_num_eval()
  perf tools: Omit unnecessary cast in perf_pmu__parse_scale
  perf tools: Pass perf_hpp_list all the way through setup_sort_list
  perf tools: Fix perf script python database export crash
  perf jitdump: DWARF is also needed
  perf bench mem: Prepare the x86-64 build for upstream memcpy_mcsafe() changes
  ...
2016-03-14 17:58:53 -07:00
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ABI Initial roundup of 4.5 merge window patches 2016-01-23 18:45:06 -08:00
accounting Documentation-getdelays: Apply a recommendation from "checkpatch.pl" in main() 2015-12-24 07:22:32 -07:00
acpi mfd: core: redo ACPI matching of the children devices 2015-10-26 15:25:53 +01:00
aoe
arm ARM: SoC multiplatform code changes for v4.5 2016-01-20 18:03:56 -08:00
arm64 arm64: Documentation: add list of software workarounds for errata 2015-12-11 17:33:21 +00:00
auxdisplay
backlight
blackfin
block A relatively boring cycle in the docs tree. There's a few kernel-doc 2016-01-17 11:55:07 -08:00
blockdev zram: update documentation 2015-09-24 15:39:42 -06:00
bus-devices
cdrom
cgroup-v1 cgroup: rename cgroup documentations 2016-01-11 23:14:51 -05:00
cma
connector
console
cpu-freq Documentation: cpufreq: intel_pstate: enhance documentation 2016-01-05 13:47:37 +01:00
cpuidle
cris
crypto KEYS: Merge the type-specific data with the payload data 2015-10-21 15:18:36 +01:00
development-process
device-mapper dm verity: add ignore_zero_blocks feature 2015-12-10 10:39:03 -05:00
devicetree ARM: OMAP2+: critical DRA7xx fix for v4.5-rc 2016-03-09 14:15:31 -08:00
dmaengine Merge branch 'topic/async' into for-linus 2016-01-06 15:17:47 +05:30
DocBook [media] media.h: get rid of MEDIA_ENT_F_CONN_TEST 2016-02-16 09:15:23 -02:00
driver-model driver-core: platform: Provide helpers for multi-driver modules 2015-10-05 05:02:40 +01:00
dvb [media] use https://linuxtv.org for LinuxTV URLs 2015-12-04 10:38:59 -02:00
early-userspace
EDID
extcon
fault-injection net: Add support for CHANGEUPPER notifier error injection 2015-12-03 11:49:23 -05:00
fb Documentation/fb: add documentation for sm712fb 2015-08-07 15:05:01 -07:00
features dma-mapping: always provide the dma_map_ops based implementation 2016-01-20 17:09:18 -08:00
filesystems efi: Make efivarfs entries immutable by default 2016-02-10 16:25:52 +00:00
firmware_class
fmc
fpga usage documentation for FPGA manager core 2015-10-07 18:07:20 +01:00
frv
gpio Doc: gpio: Fix typos in Documentation/gpio 2015-11-20 16:51:16 -07:00
hid
hwmon hwmon: (pmbus) Add client driver for LTC3815 2015-12-18 08:20:59 -08:00
i2c i2c: i801: add Intel Lewisburg device IDs 2015-11-20 16:22:21 +01:00
ia64
ide
iio iio: Documentation: Add IIO configfs documentation 2015-12-03 18:19:28 +00:00
infiniband IB: remove in-kernel support for memory windows 2015-12-23 14:29:04 -05:00
input Input: add userio module 2015-10-27 18:55:31 -07:00
ioctl Doc: ioctl: Fix typos in Documentation/ioctl 2015-11-20 16:52:50 -07:00
isdn
ja_JP Documentation: translations: update linux cross reference link 2016-01-11 18:26:58 -07:00
kbuild kbuild: document recursive dependency limitation / resolution 2015-10-08 15:36:16 +02:00
kdump
ko_KR Documentation: translations: update linux cross reference link 2016-01-11 18:26:58 -07:00
laptops
leds Documentation: leds: Add description of brightness setting API 2016-01-04 09:57:31 +01:00
locking Merge branch 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2015-11-03 16:10:43 -08:00
m68k
memory-devices
metag
mic misc: mic: Update MIC host daemon with COSM changes 2015-10-04 12:54:54 +01:00
mips
misc-devices Doc:misc-devices: Fix typo in Documentation/misc-devices 2015-09-18 10:04:24 -06:00
mmc mmc: core: Remove MMC_CLKGATE 2015-10-26 16:00:09 +01:00
mn10300
mtd Documentation: mtd: improve nand_ecc.txt for readability and correctness 2015-11-17 17:05:14 -08:00
namespaces
netlabel
networking net: change tcp_syn_retries documentation 2016-01-20 18:55:08 -08:00
nfc
nios2
nvdimm libnvdimm: documentation clarifications 2015-11-12 09:55:23 -08:00
nvmem Documentation: nvmem: add nvmem api level and how-to doc 2015-08-05 13:43:45 -07:00
parisc
PCI
pcmcia pcmcia: Fix typo in locking documentation 2015-08-07 14:34:58 +02:00
phy
platform
power Merge branches 'pm-pci' and 'pm-core' 2016-01-12 01:10:52 +01:00
powerpc SCSI misc on 20150901 2015-09-02 12:22:54 -07:00
pps Doc: pps: Fix file name in pps.txt 2015-07-14 12:35:42 -06:00
prctl Documentation/prctl: don't build tsc tests when cross compiling 2015-06-22 16:05:04 -06:00
pti
ptp testptp: Silence compiler warnings on ppc64 2015-09-29 21:16:56 -07:00
rapidio
RCU documentation: Update RCU requirements based on expedited changes 2015-12-05 12:34:32 -08:00
s390 s390/zcore: remove /sys/kernel/debug/zcore/mem 2015-11-27 09:24:12 +01:00
scheduler
scsi st: allow debug output to be enabled or disabled via sysfs 2015-11-09 17:17:27 -08:00
security keys, trusted: seal with a TPM2 authorization policy 2015-12-20 15:27:13 +02:00
serial Documentation: improve line discipline method descriptions 2015-10-05 04:53:26 +01:00
sh
sound ASoC: img: Add documentation for SPDIF in controls 2015-11-16 10:06:58 +00:00
spi spi: tools: move spidev_test metadata 2015-11-30 12:14:12 +00:00
sysctl perf/core improvements and fixes: 2016-02-03 10:58:46 +01:00
target target: use per-attribute show and store methods 2015-10-13 22:17:49 -07:00
thermal thermal: add description for integral_cutoff unit 2016-01-14 13:29:08 -07:00
timers hpet: Drop stale URLs 2016-02-17 09:39:56 +01:00
tpm
trace x86, tracing, perf: Add trace point for MSR accesses 2015-12-06 12:56:10 +01:00
usb The chipidea changes for v4.5-rc1 2015-12-26 16:59:14 -08:00
vDSO Documentation/vDSO: don't build tests when cross compiling 2015-06-22 16:04:57 -06:00
video4linux [media] media framework: rename pads init function to media_entity_pads_init() 2016-01-11 12:19:03 -02:00
virtual KVM: MMU: fix ept=0/pte.u=1/pte.w=0/CR0.WP=0/CR4.SMEP=1/EFER.NX=0 combo 2016-03-10 11:26:07 +01:00
vm Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2016-01-17 12:58:52 -08:00
w1 w1: masters: omap_hdq: add support for 1-wire mode 2015-10-05 04:47:09 +01:00
watchdog Add sun4v_wdt watchdog driver 2016-01-31 11:06:24 -08:00
wimax
x86 Merge branch 'x86-mm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2015-09-01 10:07:40 -07:00
xtensa
zh_CN [media] media framework: rename pads init function to media_entity_pads_init() 2016-01-11 12:19:03 -02:00
00-INDEX
adding-syscalls.txt Documentation: describe how to add a system call 2015-08-13 17:54:06 -06:00
applying-patches.txt
assoc_array.txt
atomic_ops.txt locking/atomics, cmpxchg: Privatize the inclusion of asm/cmpxchg.h 2015-09-13 10:35:46 +02:00
bad_memory.txt
basic_profiling.txt
bcache.txt
binfmt_misc.txt
braille-console.txt
bt8xxgpio.txt
btmrvl.txt
BUG-HUNTING
bus-virt-phys-mapping.txt
cachetlb.txt
cgroup-v2.txt Merge branch 'for-4.5-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup 2016-02-10 11:36:19 -08:00
Changes There is a nice new document from Neil on how pathname lookups work and 2015-11-05 15:59:24 -08:00
circular-buffers.txt
clk.txt clk: change clk_ops' ->determine_rate() prototype 2015-07-27 18:12:01 -07:00
coccinelle.txt
CodeOfConflict
CodingStyle Documentation: fix typo in CodingStyle 2016-01-11 18:18:16 -07:00
cpu-hotplug.txt Documentation: cpu-hotplug: Fix sysfs mount instructions 2015-12-10 11:35:30 -07:00
cpu-load.txt
cputopology.txt
crc32.txt
dcdbas.txt
debugging-modules.txt
debugging-via-ohci1394.txt Doc: Change wikipedia's URL from http to https 2015-06-22 10:14:05 -06:00
dell_rbu.txt
devices.txt
digsig.txt
DMA-API-HOWTO.txt dma-mapping: always provide the dma_map_ops based implementation 2016-01-20 17:09:18 -08:00
DMA-API.txt DMA-API: fix confusing sentence in Documentation/DMA-API.txt 2016-01-11 18:29:00 -07:00
DMA-attributes.txt
dma-buf-sharing.txt
DMA-ISA-LPC.txt
dontdiff Documentation: dontdiff: remove media from dontdiff 2015-11-11 10:08:07 -07:00
dynamic-debug-howto.txt
edac.txt EDAC: Remove references to bluesmoke.sourceforge.net 2015-11-26 14:46:06 +01:00
efi-stub.txt
eisa.txt
email-clients.txt A few more documentation patches that wandered in and have no reason to 2015-11-13 09:19:05 -08:00
flexible-arrays.txt
futex-requeue-pi.txt
gcov.txt
gdb-kernel-debugging.txt
highuid.txt
HOWTO Documentation: HOWTO: update code cross reference link 2015-12-10 11:19:35 -07:00
hsi.txt
hw_random.txt hwrng: doc - Fix device node name reference /dev/hw_random => /dev/hwrng 2015-09-21 22:00:41 +08:00
hwspinlock.txt
init.txt
initrd.txt
intel_txt.txt
Intel-IOMMU.txt iommu/vt-d: Fix link to Intel IOMMU Specification 2016-01-29 12:32:12 +01:00
io_ordering.txt
io-mapping.txt
iostats.txt
IPMI.txt ipmi watchdog : add panic_wdt_timeout parameter 2015-11-16 06:28:43 -06:00
IRQ-affinity.txt
IRQ-domain.txt irqdomain: Documentation updates 2015-10-13 19:01:25 +02:00
IRQ.txt
irqflags-tracing.txt
isapnp.txt
java.txt
kasan.txt mm, slub, kasan: enable user tracking by default with KASAN=y 2015-11-05 19:34:48 -08:00
kernel-doc-nano-HOWTO.txt Documenation: Update location of docproc.c 2015-07-14 12:36:39 -06:00
kernel-docs.txt Documentation: translations: update linux cross reference link 2016-01-11 18:26:58 -07:00
kernel-parameters.txt mm/init: Add 'rodata=off' boot cmdline parameter to disable read-only kernel mappings 2016-02-22 08:51:37 +01:00
kernel-per-CPU-kthreads.txt irq_poll: make blk-iopoll available outside the block layer 2015-12-11 11:52:24 -08:00
kmemcheck.txt
kmemleak.txt Doc: Change wikipedia's URL from http to https 2015-06-22 10:14:05 -06:00
kobject.txt
kprobes.txt
kref.txt
kselftest.txt Documentation: Update kselftest.txt 2015-09-24 15:51:53 -06:00
ldm.txt
local_ops.txt
lockup-watchdogs.txt kernel/watchdog.c: add sysctl knob hardlockup_panic 2015-11-05 19:34:48 -08:00
logo.gif
logo.txt
lzo.txt
magic-number.txt
mailbox.txt Documentation: minor typo fix in mailbox.txt 2015-08-13 18:03:18 -06:00
Makefile spi: Move spi code from Documentation to tools 2015-11-23 14:54:01 +00:00
ManagementStyle
md-cluster.txt md-cluster: update the documentation 2016-01-06 11:39:06 +11:00
md.txt doc:md: fix typo in md.txt. 2015-06-23 06:49:44 -06:00
memory-barriers.txt virtio: barrier rework+fixes 2016-01-18 16:44:24 -08:00
memory-hotplug.txt
men-chameleon-bus.txt Documentation: Minor changes to men-chameleon-bus.txt 2015-07-24 15:15:17 +02:00
module-signing.txt Move certificate handling to its own directory 2015-08-14 16:06:13 +01:00
mono.txt
nommu-mmap.txt
ntb.txt NTB: Rename Intel code names to platform names 2015-07-04 14:09:25 -04:00
numastat.txt
oops-tracing.txt
padata.txt
parport-lowlevel.txt
parport.txt
percpu-rw-semaphore.txt
phy.txt
pi-futex.txt
pinctrl.txt
pnp.txt
preempt-locking.txt
printk-formats.txt printk-formats.txt: remove unimplemented %pT 2016-01-16 11:17:30 -08:00
pwm.txt
ramoops.txt
rbtree.txt documentation: fix small typo in rbtree.txt 2015-09-13 14:38:50 -06:00
remoteproc.txt
rfkill.txt
robust-futex-ABI.txt
robust-futexes.txt
rpmsg.txt
rtc.txt
SAK.txt
SecurityBugs
serial-console.txt
sgi-ioc4.txt
SM501.txt
smsc_ece1099.txt
sparse.txt
stable_api_nonsense.txt
stable_kernel_rules.txt stable_kernel_rules.txt: Remove extra space after Cc: 2015-11-20 16:54:57 -07:00
static-keys.txt locking/static_keys: Fix up the static keys documentation 2015-09-15 07:12:06 +02:00
SubmitChecklist
SubmittingDrivers
SubmittingPatches A few more documentation patches that wandered in and have no reason to 2015-11-13 09:19:05 -08:00
svga.txt
sysfs-rules.txt
sysrq.txt mm, oom: do not panic for oom kills triggered from sysrq 2015-09-08 15:35:28 -07:00
this_cpu_ops.txt
ubsan.txt UBSAN: run-time undefined behavior sanity checker 2016-01-20 17:09:18 -08:00
unaligned-memory-access.txt
unicode.txt
unshare.txt
vfio.txt
VGA-softcursor.txt
vgaarbiter.txt
video-output.txt
vme_api.txt
volatile-considered-harmful.txt
workqueue.txt
xillybus.txt
xz.txt
zorro.txt