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Linus Torvalds 1ba3b5dc14 Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull perf tooling updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "perf.data:

   - Streaming compression of perf ring buffer into
     PERF_RECORD_COMPRESSED user space records, resulting in ~3-5x
     perf.data file size reduction on variety of tested workloads what
     saves storage space on larger server systems where perf.data size
     can easily reach several tens or even hundreds of GiBs, especially
     when profiling with DWARF-based stacks and tracing of context
     switches.

  perf record:

   - Improve -user-regs/intr-regs suggestions to overcome errors

  perf annotate:

   - Remove hist__account_cycles() from callback, speeding up branch
     processing (perf record -b)

  perf stat:

   - Add a 'percore' event qualifier, e.g.: -e
     cpu/event=0,umask=0x3,percore=1/, that sums up the event counts for
     both hardware threads in a core.

     We can already do this with --per-core, but it's often useful to do
     this together with other metrics that are collected per hardware
     thread.

     I.e. now its possible to do this per-event, and have it mixed with
     other events not aggregated by core.

  arm64:

   - Map Brahma-B53 CPUID to cortex-a53 events.

   - Add Cortex-A57 and Cortex-A72 events.

  csky:

   - Add DWARF register mappings for libdw, allowing --call-graph=dwarf
     to work on the C-SKY arch.

  x86:

   - Add support for recording and printing XMM registers, available,
     for instance, on Icelake.

   - Add uncore_upi (Intel's "Ultra Path Interconnect" events) JSON
     support. UPI replaced the Intel QuickPath Interconnect (QPI) in
     Xeon Skylake-SP.

  Intel PT:

   - Fix instructions sampling rate.

   - Timestamp fixes.

   - Improve exported-sql-viewer GUI, allowing, for instance, to
     copy'n'paste the trees, useful for e-mailing"

* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (73 commits)
  perf stat: Support 'percore' event qualifier
  perf stat: Factor out aggregate counts printing
  perf tools: Add a 'percore' event qualifier
  perf docs: Add description for stderr
  perf intel-pt: Fix sample timestamp wrt non-taken branches
  perf intel-pt: Fix improved sample timestamp
  perf intel-pt: Fix instructions sampling rate
  perf regs x86: Add X86 specific arch__intr_reg_mask()
  perf parse-regs: Add generic support for arch__intr/user_reg_mask()
  perf parse-regs: Split parse_regs
  perf vendor events arm64: Add Cortex-A57 and Cortex-A72 events
  perf vendor events arm64: Map Brahma-B53 CPUID to cortex-a53 events
  perf vendor events arm64: Remove [[:xdigit:]] wildcard
  perf jevents: Remove unused variable
  perf test zstd: Fixup verbose mode output
  perf tests: Implement Zstd comp/decomp integration test
  perf inject: Enable COMPRESSED record decompression
  perf report: Implement perf.data record decompression
  perf record: Implement -z,--compression_level[=<n>] option
  perf report: Add stub processing of compressed events for -D
  ...
2019-05-19 11:20:22 -07:00
arch Merge branch 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2019-05-19 11:11:20 -07:00
block for-5.2/block-post-20190516 2019-05-16 19:08:15 -07:00
certs kexec, KEYS: Make use of platform keyring for signature verify 2019-02-04 17:34:07 -05:00
crypto Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next 2019-05-07 22:03:58 -07:00
Documentation Merge branch 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2019-05-19 11:11:20 -07:00
drivers Merge branch 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2019-05-19 11:11:20 -07:00
fs Merge branch 'fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2019-05-17 09:46:31 -07:00
include Merge branch 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2019-05-19 11:11:20 -07:00
init mm: shuffle initial free memory to improve memory-side-cache utilization 2019-05-14 19:52:48 -07:00
ipc ipc: do cyclic id allocation for the ipc object. 2019-05-14 19:52:52 -07:00
kernel Merge branch 'irq-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2019-05-19 10:58:45 -07:00
lib slab: remove /proc/slab_allocators 2019-05-16 15:51:55 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Rename other to deprecated 2019-05-03 06:34:32 -06:00
mm Merge branch 'core-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2019-05-19 10:23:24 -07:00
net AFS fixes 2019-05-16 17:00:13 -07:00
samples Add gitignore file for samples/vfs/ generated files 2019-05-14 13:30:10 -07:00
scripts Kconfig updates for v5.2 2019-05-15 09:06:14 -07:00
security Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2019-05-13 15:15:00 -07:00
sound sound fixes for 5.2-rc1 2019-05-17 13:57:54 -07:00
tools Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2019-05-19 11:20:22 -07:00
usr user/Makefile: Fix typo and capitalization in comment section 2018-12-11 00:18:03 +09:00
virt * ARM: support for SVE and Pointer Authentication in guests, PMU improvements 2019-05-17 10:33:30 -07:00
.clang-format Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2019-04-17 11:26:25 -07:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore Opt out of scripts/get_maintainer.pl 2019-05-16 10:53:40 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set git diff driver for C source code files 2016-10-07 18:46:30 -07:00
.gitignore .gitignore: add more all*.config patterns 2019-05-08 09:47:46 +09:00
.mailmap A reasonably busy cycle for docs, including: 2019-05-08 12:42:50 -07:00
COPYING COPYING: use the new text with points to the license files 2018-03-23 12:41:45 -06:00
CREDITS Char/Misc driver patches for 5.1-rc1 2019-03-06 14:18:59 -08:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v5.1 2019-03-10 17:48:21 -07:00
Kconfig kconfig: move the "Executable file formats" menu to fs/Kconfig.binfmt 2018-08-02 08:06:55 +09:00
MAINTAINERS Merge branch 'irq-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2019-05-19 10:58:45 -07:00
Makefile Kbuild updates for v5.2 2019-05-08 12:25:12 -07:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

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.