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Ingo Molnar 531c221df1 perf/urgent fixes:
- Fix probing of precise_ip level for default cycles event, that
   got broken recently on x86_64 when its arch code started
   considering invalid requesting precise samples when not sampling
   (i.e. when attr.sample_period == 0).
 
   This also fixes another problem in s/390 where the precision
   probing with sample_period == 0 returned precise_ip > 0, that
   then, when setting up the real cycles event (not probing) would
   return EOPNOTSUPP for precise_ip > 0 (as determined previously
   by probing) and sample_period > 0.
 
   These problems resulted in attr_precise not being set to the
   highest precision available on x86.64 when no event was specified,
   i.e. the canonical:
 
 	perf record ./workload
 
   would end up using attr.precise_ip = 0. As a workaround this would
   need to be done:
 
 	perf record -e cycles:P ./workload
 
   And on s/390 it would plain not work, requiring using:
 
         perf record -e cycles ./workload
 
   as a workaround.  (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
 
 - Fix perf build with ARCH=x86_64, when ARCH should be transformed
   into ARCH=x86, just like with the main kernel Makefile and
   tools/objtool's, i.e. use SRCARCH. (Jiada Wang)
 
 - Avoid accessing uninitialized data structures when unwinding with
   elfutils's libdw, making it more closely mimic libunwind's unwinder.
   (Milian Wolff)
 
 Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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Merge tag 'perf-urgent-for-mingo-4.12-20170616' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux into perf/urgent

Pull perf/urgent fixes from Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo:

- Fix probing of precise_ip level for default cycles event, that
  got broken recently on x86_64 when its arch code started
  considering invalid requesting precise samples when not sampling
  (i.e. when attr.sample_period == 0).

  This also fixes another problem in s/390 where the precision
  probing with sample_period == 0 returned precise_ip > 0, that
  then, when setting up the real cycles event (not probing) would
  return EOPNOTSUPP for precise_ip > 0 (as determined previously
  by probing) and sample_period > 0.

  These problems resulted in attr_precise not being set to the
  highest precision available on x86.64 when no event was specified,
  i.e. the canonical:

	perf record ./workload

  would end up using attr.precise_ip = 0. As a workaround this would
  need to be done:

	perf record -e cycles:P ./workload

  And on s/390 it would plain not work, requiring using:

        perf record -e cycles ./workload

  as a workaround.  (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)

- Fix perf build with ARCH=x86_64, when ARCH should be transformed
  into ARCH=x86, just like with the main kernel Makefile and
  tools/objtool's, i.e. use SRCARCH. (Jiada Wang)

- Avoid accessing uninitialized data structures when unwinding with
  elfutils's libdw, making it more closely mimic libunwind's unwinder.
  (Milian Wolff)

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-06-16 21:33:48 +02:00
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crypto crypto : asymmetric_keys : verify_pefile:zero memory content before freeing 2017-06-09 13:29:50 +10:00
Documentation USB fixes for 4.12-rc5 2017-06-11 11:23:10 -07:00
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kernel Merge branch 'smp-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-06-10 10:49:42 -07:00
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tools perf unwind: Report module before querying isactivation in dwfl unwind 2017-06-16 14:37:30 -03:00
usr initramfs: fix disabling of initramfs (and its compression) 2017-06-02 15:07:37 -07:00
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Linux kernel
============

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Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
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See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.