linux/fs
Linus Torvalds 9c2b957db1 Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull perf events changes for v3.4 from Ingo Molnar:

 - New "hardware based branch profiling" feature both on the kernel and
   the tooling side, on CPUs that support it.  (modern x86 Intel CPUs
   with the 'LBR' hardware feature currently.)

   This new feature is basically a sophisticated 'magnifying glass' for
   branch execution - something that is pretty difficult to extract from
   regular, function histogram centric profiles.

   The simplest mode is activated via 'perf record -b', and the result
   looks like this in perf report:

	$ perf record -b any_call,u -e cycles:u branchy

	$ perf report -b --sort=symbol
	    52.34%  [.] main                   [.] f1
	    24.04%  [.] f1                     [.] f3
	    23.60%  [.] f1                     [.] f2
	     0.01%  [k] _IO_new_file_xsputn    [k] _IO_file_overflow
	     0.01%  [k] _IO_vfprintf_internal  [k] _IO_new_file_xsputn
	     0.01%  [k] _IO_vfprintf_internal  [k] strchrnul
	     0.01%  [k] __printf               [k] _IO_vfprintf_internal
	     0.01%  [k] main                   [k] __printf

   This output shows from/to branch columns and shows the highest
   percentage (from,to) jump combinations - i.e.  the most likely taken
   branches in the system.  "branches" can also include function calls
   and any other synchronous and asynchronous transitions of the
   instruction pointer that are not 'next instruction' - such as system
   calls, traps, interrupts, etc.

   This feature comes with (hopefully intuitive) flat ascii and TUI
   support in perf report.

 - Various 'perf annotate' visual improvements for us assembly junkies.
   It will now recognize function calls in the TUI and by hitting enter
   you can follow the call (recursively) and back, amongst other
   improvements.

 - Multiple threads/processes recording support in perf record, perf
   stat, perf top - which is activated via a comma-list of PIDs:

	perf top -p 21483,21485
	perf stat -p 21483,21485 -ddd
	perf record -p 21483,21485

 - Support for per UID views, via the --uid paramter to perf top, perf
   report, etc.  For example 'perf top --uid mingo' will only show the
   tasks that I am running, excluding other users, root, etc.

 - Jump label restructurings and improvements - this includes the
   factoring out of the (hopefully much clearer) include/linux/static_key.h
   generic facility:

	struct static_key key = STATIC_KEY_INIT_FALSE;

	...

	if (static_key_false(&key))
	        do unlikely code
	else
	        do likely code

	...
	static_key_slow_inc();
	...
	static_key_slow_inc();
	...

   The static_key_false() branch will be generated into the code with as
   little impact to the likely code path as possible.  the
   static_key_slow_*() APIs flip the branch via live kernel code patching.

   This facility can now be used more widely within the kernel to
   micro-optimize hot branches whose likelihood matches the static-key
   usage and fast/slow cost patterns.

 - SW function tracer improvements: perf support and filtering support.

 - Various hardenings of the perf.data ABI, to make older perf.data's
   smoother on newer tool versions, to make new features integrate more
   smoothly, to support cross-endian recording/analyzing workflows
   better, etc.

 - Restructuring of the kprobes code, the splitting out of 'optprobes',
   and a corner case bugfix.

 - Allow the tracing of kernel console output (printk).

 - Improvements/fixes to user-space RDPMC support, allowing user-space
   self-profiling code to extract PMU counts without performing any
   system calls, while playing nice with the kernel side.

 - 'perf bench' improvements

 - ... and lots of internal restructurings, cleanups and fixes that made
   these features possible.  And, as usual this list is incomplete as
   there were also lots of other improvements

* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (120 commits)
  perf report: Fix annotate double quit issue in branch view mode
  perf report: Remove duplicate annotate choice in branch view mode
  perf/x86: Prettify pmu config literals
  perf report: Enable TUI in branch view mode
  perf report: Auto-detect branch stack sampling mode
  perf record: Add HEADER_BRANCH_STACK tag
  perf record: Provide default branch stack sampling mode option
  perf tools: Make perf able to read files from older ABIs
  perf tools: Fix ABI compatibility bug in print_event_desc()
  perf tools: Enable reading of perf.data files from different ABI rev
  perf: Add ABI reference sizes
  perf report: Add support for taken branch sampling
  perf record: Add support for sampling taken branch
  perf tools: Add code to support PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_STACK
  x86/kprobes: Split out optprobe related code to kprobes-opt.c
  x86/kprobes: Fix a bug which can modify kernel code permanently
  x86/kprobes: Fix instruction recovery on optimized path
  perf: Add callback to flush branch_stack on context switch
  perf: Disable PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_* when not supported
  perf/x86: Add LBR software filter support for Intel CPUs
  ...
2012-03-20 10:29:15 -07:00
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9p Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ericvh/v9fs 2012-01-10 15:09:01 -08:00
adfs vfs: switch ->show_options() to struct dentry * 2012-01-06 23:19:54 -05:00
affs affs: propagate umode_t 2012-01-03 22:55:04 -05:00
afs afs: Remote abort can cause BUG in rxrpc code 2012-03-16 17:01:41 -07:00
autofs4 autofs: work around unhappy compat problem on x86-64 2012-02-25 12:10:27 -08:00
befs vfs: fix the stupidity with i_dentry in inode destructors 2012-01-03 22:52:40 -05:00
bfs switch ->create() to umode_t 2012-01-03 22:54:53 -05:00
btrfs Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mason/linux-btrfs 2012-03-09 18:09:18 -08:00
cachefiles fs: move code out of buffer.c 2012-01-03 22:54:07 -05:00
ceph Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sage/ceph-client 2012-02-02 15:47:33 -08:00
cifs CIFS: Do not kmalloc under the flocks spinlock 2012-03-06 21:50:15 -06:00
coda coda: switch coda_cnode_make() to sane API as well, clean coda_lookup() 2012-01-10 11:13:16 -05:00
configfs configfs: convert to umode_t 2012-01-03 22:54:57 -05:00
cramfs Merge branches 'vfsmount-guts', 'umode_t' and 'partitions' into Z 2012-01-06 23:15:54 -05:00
debugfs kernel-doc: fix new warnings in debugfs 2012-01-24 10:47:41 -08:00
devpts devpts: fix double-free on mount failure 2012-01-08 20:19:03 -05:00
dlm Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/teigland/linux-dlm 2012-01-10 14:55:55 -08:00
ecryptfs ecryptfs: fix printk format warning for size_t 2012-02-28 16:55:30 -08:00
efs vfs: fix the stupidity with i_dentry in inode destructors 2012-01-03 22:52:40 -05:00
exofs Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.open-osd.org/linux-open-osd 2012-01-09 12:51:01 -08:00
exportfs
ext2 ext2: protect inode changes in the SETVERSION and SETFLAGS ioctls 2012-01-11 13:39:02 +01:00
ext3 Merge branch 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs 2012-01-09 12:51:21 -08:00
ext4 Merge branch 'for_linus' into for_linus_merged 2012-01-10 11:54:07 -05:00
fat Merge branch 'usb-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb 2012-01-09 12:09:47 -08:00
freevxfs fs: propagate umode_t, misc bits 2012-01-03 22:55:10 -05:00
fscache
fuse Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/fuse 2012-01-12 12:39:21 -08:00
gfs2 GFS2: Read resource groups on mount 2012-02-28 09:52:39 +00:00
hfs vfs: switch ->show_options() to struct dentry * 2012-01-06 23:19:54 -05:00
hfsplus hfsplus: creation of hidden dir on mount can fail 2012-01-10 17:48:52 -05:00
hostfs vfs: switch ->show_options() to struct dentry * 2012-01-06 23:19:54 -05:00
hpfs switch ->mknod() to umode_t 2012-01-03 22:54:54 -05:00
hppfs vfs: for usbfs, etc. internal vfsmounts ->mnt_sb->s_root == ->mnt_root 2012-01-03 22:52:41 -05:00
hugetlbfs mm: compaction: introduce sync-light migration for use by compaction 2012-01-12 20:13:09 -08:00
isofs isofs: inode leak on mount failure 2012-01-09 10:48:11 -05:00
jbd jbd: Issue cache flush after checkpointing 2012-01-11 13:36:57 +01:00
jbd2 Merge branch 'for_linus' into for_linus_merged 2012-01-10 11:54:07 -05:00
jffs2 jffs2: do not initialize variable unnecessarily 2012-01-11 09:53:51 +00:00
jfs Merge branch 'pm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm 2012-01-08 13:10:57 -08:00
lockd module_param: make bool parameters really bool (drivers & misc) 2012-01-13 09:32:20 +10:30
logfs mtd: fix merge conflict resolution breakage 2012-02-01 11:10:24 -08:00
minix Merge branch 'for-linus2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2012-01-08 12:19:57 -08:00
ncpfs vfs: switch ->show_options() to struct dentry * 2012-01-06 23:19:54 -05:00
nfs NFSv4: fix server_scope memory leak 2012-02-17 17:34:03 -05:00
nfs_common
nfsd Merge branch 'for-3.3' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linux 2012-01-14 12:26:41 -08:00
nilfs2 nilfs2: fix NULL pointer dereference in nilfs_load_super_block() 2012-03-16 17:14:44 -07:00
nls NLS: raname "maxlen" to "maxout" in UTF conversion routines 2011-11-26 19:58:47 -08:00
notify fsnotify: don't BUG in fsnotify_destroy_mark() 2012-01-14 18:01:42 -08:00
ntfs NTFS: Correct two spelling errors "dealocate" to "deallocate" in mft.c. 2012-02-24 09:17:09 +00:00
ocfs2 ocfs2: deal with wraparounds of i_nlink in ocfs2_rename() 2012-02-13 20:45:39 -05:00
omfs omfs: propagate umode_t 2012-01-03 22:55:01 -05:00
openpromfs vfs: fix the stupidity with i_dentry in inode destructors 2012-01-03 22:52:40 -05:00
proc Fix race in process_vm_rw_core 2012-02-02 12:55:17 -08:00
pstore pstore: gracefully handle NULL pstore_info functions 2011-11-18 13:49:00 -08:00
qnx4 qnx4: don't leak ->BitMap on late failure exits 2012-01-19 13:54:36 -05:00
quota quota: Fix deadlock with suspend and quotas 2012-02-13 20:45:39 -05:00
ramfs pohmelfs: propagate umode_t 2012-01-03 22:55:07 -05:00
reiserfs reiserfs: don't lock root inode searching 2012-01-10 16:30:54 -08:00
romfs MTD pull for 3.3 2012-01-10 13:45:22 -08:00
squashfs Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pkl/squashfs-next 2012-01-13 10:34:57 -08:00
sysfs sysfs: Complain bitterly about attempts to remove files from nonexistent directories. 2012-01-24 12:12:32 -08:00
sysv vfs: prefer ->dentry->d_sb to ->mnt->mnt_sb 2012-01-06 23:16:53 -05:00
ubifs UBIFS: fix non-debug configuration build 2012-01-15 13:46:02 +02:00
udf udf: Fix deadlock in udf_release_file() 2012-03-10 16:05:38 -05:00
ufs vfs: switch ->show_options() to struct dentry * 2012-01-06 23:19:54 -05:00
xfs xfs: make inode quota check more general 2012-02-21 10:12:43 -06:00
aio.c aio: fix the "too late munmap()" race 2012-03-09 18:59:59 -08:00
anon_inodes.c
attr.c switch is_sxid() to umode_t 2012-01-03 22:55:11 -05:00
bad_inode.c switch ->mknod() to umode_t 2012-01-03 22:54:54 -05:00
binfmt_aout.c aout: move setup_arg_pages() prior to reading/mapping the binary 2012-03-05 13:51:32 -08:00
binfmt_elf_fdpic.c
binfmt_elf.c regset: Prevent null pointer reference on readonly regsets 2012-03-02 11:38:15 -08:00
binfmt_em86.c
binfmt_flat.c
binfmt_misc.c vfs: prefer ->dentry->d_sb to ->mnt->mnt_sb 2012-01-06 23:16:53 -05:00
binfmt_script.c
binfmt_som.c
bio-integrity.c fs: add export.h to files using EXPORT_SYMBOL/THIS_MODULE macros 2011-10-31 19:30:31 -04:00
bio.c bio: don't overflow in bio_get_nr_vecs() 2012-02-08 22:07:18 +01:00
block_dev.c block: Fix NULL pointer dereference in sd_revalidate_disk 2012-03-02 10:38:33 +01:00
buffer.c fs: move code out of buffer.c 2012-01-03 22:54:07 -05:00
char_dev.c char_dev.c: fix up some whitespace errors 2011-12-13 11:18:17 -08:00
compat_binfmt_elf.c
compat_ioctl.c Merge branch 'v4l_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-media 2012-01-15 12:49:56 -08:00
compat.c vfs: fix compat_sys_stat() handling of overflows in st_nlink 2012-02-13 20:45:39 -05:00
dcache.c Merge branch 'dcache-word-accesses' 2012-03-19 16:37:28 -07:00
dcookies.c
direct-io.c Restore direct_io / truncate locking API 2012-02-23 15:56:21 -08:00
drop_caches.c
eventfd.c
eventpoll.c Don't limit non-nested epoll paths 2012-03-18 12:25:04 -07:00
exec.c Merge branch 'perf/urgent' into perf/core 2012-03-12 20:44:11 +01:00
fcntl.c
fhandle.c vfs: prefer ->dentry->d_sb to ->mnt->mnt_sb 2012-01-06 23:16:53 -05:00
fifo.c
file_table.c vfs: prevent remount read-only if pending removes 2012-01-06 23:20:13 -05:00
file.c
filesystems.c vfs: convert fs_supers to hlist 2012-01-03 22:52:39 -05:00
fs_struct.c
fs-writeback.c writeback: fix NULL bdi->dev in trace writeback_single_inode 2012-02-01 16:53:40 +08:00
generic_acl.c
inode.c restore smp_mb() in unlock_new_inode() 2012-03-10 17:07:28 -05:00
internal.h vfs: protect remounting superblock read-only 2012-01-06 23:20:12 -05:00
ioctl.c vfs: fix up ENOIOCTLCMD error handling 2012-01-05 15:40:12 -08:00
ioprio.c block: strip out locking optimization in put_io_context() 2012-02-07 07:51:30 +01:00
Kconfig vfs: use 'unsigned long' accesses for dcache name comparison and hashing 2012-03-08 18:08:44 -08:00
Kconfig.binfmt fs: binfmt_elf: create Kconfig variable for PIE randomization 2012-01-10 16:30:51 -08:00
libfs.c fs: move code out of buffer.c 2012-01-03 22:54:07 -05:00
locks.c vfs: fix handling of lock allocation failure in lease-break case 2011-12-26 10:25:26 -08:00
Makefile Merge branches 'vfsmount-guts', 'umode_t' and 'partitions' into Z 2012-01-06 23:15:54 -05:00
mbcache.c
mount.h vfs: keep list of mounts for each superblock 2012-01-06 23:20:12 -05:00
mpage.c fs: remove unneeded plug in mpage_readpages() 2012-01-12 09:19:54 +01:00
namei.c Merge branch 'dcache-word-accesses' 2012-03-19 16:37:28 -07:00
namespace.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2012-01-08 13:21:22 -08:00
no-block.c
open.c switch security_path_chmod() to struct path * 2012-01-06 23:16:53 -05:00
pipe.c pipe: fail cleanly when root tries F_SETPIPE_SZ with big size 2012-01-12 20:13:04 -08:00
pnode.c vfs: switch pnode.h macros to struct mount * 2012-01-03 22:57:11 -05:00
pnode.h vfs: switch pnode.h macros to struct mount * 2012-01-03 22:57:11 -05:00
posix_acl.c vfs: pass all mask flags check_acl and posix_acl_permission 2011-10-28 14:58:54 +02:00
proc_namespace.c vfs: switch ->show_options() to struct dentry * 2012-01-06 23:19:54 -05:00
read_write.c Cross Memory Attach 2011-10-31 17:30:44 -07:00
read_write.h
readdir.c
select.c sys_poll: fix incorrect type for 'timeout' parameter 2012-02-21 17:24:20 -08:00
seq_file.c constify seq_file stuff 2012-01-03 22:52:40 -05:00
signalfd.c epoll: ep_unregister_pollwait() can use the freed pwq->whead 2012-02-24 11:42:50 -08:00
splice.c fs: move code out of buffer.c 2012-01-03 22:54:07 -05:00
stack.c filesystems: add set_nlink() 2011-11-02 12:53:43 +01:00
stat.c readlinkat: ensure we return ENOENT for the empty pathname for normal lookups 2011-11-02 12:53:42 +01:00
statfs.c vfs: new helper - vfs_ustat() 2012-01-03 22:53:07 -05:00
super.c vfs: Provide function to get superblock and wait for it to thaw 2012-02-13 20:45:38 -05:00
sync.c fs: move code out of buffer.c 2012-01-03 22:54:07 -05:00
timerfd.c
utimes.c
xattr_acl.c
xattr.c vfs: mnt_drop_write_file() 2012-01-03 22:52:40 -05:00