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<title>litmus-rt.git/arch/x86/include/uapi, branch master</title>
<subtitle>The LITMUS^RT kernel.</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>tools/power turbostat: enable turbostat to support Knights Landing (KNL)</title>
<updated>2015-05-27T22:03:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dasaratharaman Chandramouli</name>
<email>dasaratharaman.chandramouli@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-05-20T16:49:34+00:00</published>
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Changes mainly to account for minor differences in Knights Landing(KNL):
1. KNL supports C1 and C6 core states.
2. KNL supports PC2, PC3 and PC6 package states.
3. KNL has a different encoding of the TURBO_RATIO_LIMIT MSR

Signed-off-by: Dasaratharaman Chandramouli &lt;dasaratharaman.chandramouli@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
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Changes mainly to account for minor differences in Knights Landing(KNL):
1. KNL supports C1 and C6 core states.
2. KNL supports PC2, PC3 and PC6 package states.
3. KNL has a different encoding of the TURBO_RATIO_LIMIT MSR

Signed-off-by: Dasaratharaman Chandramouli &lt;dasaratharaman.chandramouli@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'char-misc-4.1-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc</title>
<updated>2015-04-21T16:42:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-04-21T16:42:58+00:00</published>
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Pull char/misc driver updates from Greg KH:
 "Here's the big char/misc driver patchset for 4.1-rc1.

  Lots of different driver subsystem updates here, nothing major, full
  details are in the shortlog.

  All of this has been in linux-next for a while"

* tag 'char-misc-4.1-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc: (133 commits)
  mei: trace: remove unused TRACE_SYSTEM_STRING
  DTS: ARM: OMAP3-N900: Add lis3lv02d support
  Documentation: DT: lis302: update wakeup binding
  lis3lv02d: DT: add wakeup unit 2 and wakeup threshold
  lis3lv02d: DT: use s32 to support negative values
  Drivers: hv: hv_balloon: correctly handle num_pages&gt;INT_MAX case
  Drivers: hv: hv_balloon: correctly handle val.freeram&lt;num_pages case
  mei: replace check for connection instead of transitioning
  mei: use mei_cl_is_connected consistently
  mei: fix mei_poll operation
  hv_vmbus: Add gradually increased delay for retries in vmbus_post_msg()
  Drivers: hv: hv_balloon: survive ballooning request with num_pages=0
  Drivers: hv: hv_balloon: eliminate jumps in piecewiese linear floor function
  Drivers: hv: hv_balloon: do not online pages in offline blocks
  hv: remove the per-channel workqueue
  hv: don't schedule new works in vmbus_onoffer()/vmbus_onoffer_rescind()
  hv: run non-blocking message handlers in the dispatch tasklet
  coresight: moving to new "hwtracing" directory
  coresight-tmc: Adding a status interface to sysfs
  coresight: remove the unnecessary configuration coresight-default-sink
  ...
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Pull char/misc driver updates from Greg KH:
 "Here's the big char/misc driver patchset for 4.1-rc1.

  Lots of different driver subsystem updates here, nothing major, full
  details are in the shortlog.

  All of this has been in linux-next for a while"

* tag 'char-misc-4.1-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc: (133 commits)
  mei: trace: remove unused TRACE_SYSTEM_STRING
  DTS: ARM: OMAP3-N900: Add lis3lv02d support
  Documentation: DT: lis302: update wakeup binding
  lis3lv02d: DT: add wakeup unit 2 and wakeup threshold
  lis3lv02d: DT: use s32 to support negative values
  Drivers: hv: hv_balloon: correctly handle num_pages&gt;INT_MAX case
  Drivers: hv: hv_balloon: correctly handle val.freeram&lt;num_pages case
  mei: replace check for connection instead of transitioning
  mei: use mei_cl_is_connected consistently
  mei: fix mei_poll operation
  hv_vmbus: Add gradually increased delay for retries in vmbus_post_msg()
  Drivers: hv: hv_balloon: survive ballooning request with num_pages=0
  Drivers: hv: hv_balloon: eliminate jumps in piecewiese linear floor function
  Drivers: hv: hv_balloon: do not online pages in offline blocks
  hv: remove the per-channel workqueue
  hv: don't schedule new works in vmbus_onoffer()/vmbus_onoffer_rescind()
  hv: run non-blocking message handlers in the dispatch tasklet
  coresight: moving to new "hwtracing" directory
  coresight-tmc: Adding a status interface to sysfs
  coresight: remove the unnecessary configuration coresight-default-sink
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'turbostat' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux</title>
<updated>2015-04-19T21:31:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-04-19T21:31:41+00:00</published>
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Pull turbostat update from Len Brown:
 "Updates to the turbostat utility.

  Just one kernel dependency in this batch -- added a #define to
  msr-index.h"

* 'turbostat' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux:
  tools/power turbostat: correct dumped pkg-cstate-limit value
  tools/power turbostat: calculate TSC frequency from CPUID(0x15) on SKL
  tools/power turbostat: correct DRAM RAPL units on recent Xeon processors
  tools/power turbostat: Initial Skylake support
  tools/power turbostat: Use $(CURDIR) instead of $(PWD) and add support for O= option in Makefile
  tools/power turbostat: modprobe msr, if needed
  tools/power turbostat: dump MSR_TURBO_RATIO_LIMIT2
  tools/power turbostat: use new MSR_TURBO_RATIO_LIMIT names
  x86 msr-index: define MSR_TURBO_RATIO_LIMIT,1,2
  tools/power turbostat: label base frequency
  tools/power turbostat: update PERF_LIMIT_REASONS decoding
  tools/power turbostat: simplify default output
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Pull turbostat update from Len Brown:
 "Updates to the turbostat utility.

  Just one kernel dependency in this batch -- added a #define to
  msr-index.h"

* 'turbostat' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux:
  tools/power turbostat: correct dumped pkg-cstate-limit value
  tools/power turbostat: calculate TSC frequency from CPUID(0x15) on SKL
  tools/power turbostat: correct DRAM RAPL units on recent Xeon processors
  tools/power turbostat: Initial Skylake support
  tools/power turbostat: Use $(CURDIR) instead of $(PWD) and add support for O= option in Makefile
  tools/power turbostat: modprobe msr, if needed
  tools/power turbostat: dump MSR_TURBO_RATIO_LIMIT2
  tools/power turbostat: use new MSR_TURBO_RATIO_LIMIT names
  x86 msr-index: define MSR_TURBO_RATIO_LIMIT,1,2
  tools/power turbostat: label base frequency
  tools/power turbostat: update PERF_LIMIT_REASONS decoding
  tools/power turbostat: simplify default output
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>tools/power turbostat: Initial Skylake support</title>
<updated>2015-04-18T18:20:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Len Brown</name>
<email>len.brown@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-03-26T04:50:30+00:00</published>
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Skylake adds some additional residency counters.

Skylake supports a different mix of RAPL registers
from any previous product.

In most other ways, Skylake is like Broadwell.

Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
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Skylake adds some additional residency counters.

Skylake supports a different mix of RAPL registers
from any previous product.

In most other ways, Skylake is like Broadwell.

Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'x86-pmem-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2015-04-18T15:42:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-04-18T15:42:49+00:00</published>
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Pull PMEM driver from Ingo Molnar:
 "This is the initial support for the pmem block device driver:
  persistent non-volatile memory space mapped into the system's physical
  memory space as large physical memory regions.

  The driver is based on Intel code, written by Ross Zwisler, with fixes
  by Boaz Harrosh, integrated with x86 e820 memory resource management
  and tidied up by Christoph Hellwig.

  Note that there were two other separate pmem driver submissions to
  lkml: but apparently all parties (Ross Zwisler, Boaz Harrosh) are
  reasonably happy with this initial version.

  This version enables minimal support that enables persistent memory
  devices out in the wild to work as block devices, identified through a
  magic (non-standard) e820 flag and auto-discovered if
  CONFIG_X86_PMEM_LEGACY=y, or added explicitly through manipulating the
  memory maps via the "memmap=..." boot option with the new, special '!'
  modifier character.

  Limitations: this is a regular block device, and since the pmem areas
  are not struct page backed, they are invisible to the rest of the
  system (other than the block IO device), so direct IO to/from pmem
  areas, direct mmap() or XIP is not possible yet.  The page cache will
  also shadow and double buffer pmem contents, etc.

  Initial support is for x86"

* 'x86-pmem-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  drivers/block/pmem: Fix 32-bit build warning in pmem_alloc()
  drivers/block/pmem: Add a driver for persistent memory
  x86/mm: Add support for the non-standard protected e820 type
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Pull PMEM driver from Ingo Molnar:
 "This is the initial support for the pmem block device driver:
  persistent non-volatile memory space mapped into the system's physical
  memory space as large physical memory regions.

  The driver is based on Intel code, written by Ross Zwisler, with fixes
  by Boaz Harrosh, integrated with x86 e820 memory resource management
  and tidied up by Christoph Hellwig.

  Note that there were two other separate pmem driver submissions to
  lkml: but apparently all parties (Ross Zwisler, Boaz Harrosh) are
  reasonably happy with this initial version.

  This version enables minimal support that enables persistent memory
  devices out in the wild to work as block devices, identified through a
  magic (non-standard) e820 flag and auto-discovered if
  CONFIG_X86_PMEM_LEGACY=y, or added explicitly through manipulating the
  memory maps via the "memmap=..." boot option with the new, special '!'
  modifier character.

  Limitations: this is a regular block device, and since the pmem areas
  are not struct page backed, they are invisible to the rest of the
  system (other than the block IO device), so direct IO to/from pmem
  areas, direct mmap() or XIP is not possible yet.  The page cache will
  also shadow and double buffer pmem contents, etc.

  Initial support is for x86"

* 'x86-pmem-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  drivers/block/pmem: Fix 32-bit build warning in pmem_alloc()
  drivers/block/pmem: Add a driver for persistent memory
  x86/mm: Add support for the non-standard protected e820 type
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</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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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86 msr-index: define MSR_TURBO_RATIO_LIMIT,1,2</title>
<updated>2015-04-13T20:41:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Len Brown</name>
<email>len.brown@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-04-10T04:22:56+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rtsrv.cs.unc.edu/cgit/cgit.cgi/litmus-rt.git/commit/?id=c4d30668da689de2f27bb0b19de4430d6c95d7cf'/>
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MSR_TURBO_RATIO_LIMIT has grown into a set of three registers.
Add the documented names for them, in preparation
for deleting the previous ad-hoc names:

+#define MSR_TURBO_RATIO_LIMIT          0x000001ad
+#define MSR_TURBO_RATIO_LIMIT1         0x000001ae
+#define MSR_TURBO_RATIO_LIMIT2         0x000001af

Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
Cc: x86@kernel.org
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MSR_TURBO_RATIO_LIMIT has grown into a set of three registers.
Add the documented names for them, in preparation
for deleting the previous ad-hoc names:

+#define MSR_TURBO_RATIO_LIMIT          0x000001ad
+#define MSR_TURBO_RATIO_LIMIT1         0x000001ae
+#define MSR_TURBO_RATIO_LIMIT2         0x000001af

Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
Cc: x86@kernel.org
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2015-04-13T20:16:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-04-13T20:16:36+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rtsrv.cs.unc.edu/cgit/cgit.cgi/litmus-rt.git/commit/?id=60f898eeaaa1c5d0162a4240bacf33a6c87ecef6'/>
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Pull x86 asm changes from Ingo Molnar:
 "There were lots of changes in this development cycle:

   - over 100 separate cleanups, restructuring changes, speedups and
     fixes in the x86 system call, irq, trap and other entry code, part
     of a heroic effort to deobfuscate a decade old spaghetti asm code
     and its C code dependencies (Denys Vlasenko, Andy Lutomirski)

   - alternatives code fixes and enhancements (Borislav Petkov)

   - simplifications and cleanups to the compat code (Brian Gerst)

   - signal handling fixes and new x86 testcases (Andy Lutomirski)

   - various other fixes and cleanups

  By their nature many of these changes are risky - we tried to test
  them well on many different x86 systems (there are no known
  regressions), and they are split up finely to help bisection - but
  there's still a fair bit of residual risk left so caveat emptor"

* 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (148 commits)
  perf/x86/64: Report regs_user-&gt;ax too in get_regs_user()
  perf/x86/64: Simplify regs_user-&gt;abi setting code in get_regs_user()
  perf/x86/64: Do report user_regs-&gt;cx while we are in syscall, in get_regs_user()
  perf/x86/64: Do not guess user_regs-&gt;cs, ss, sp in get_regs_user()
  x86/asm/entry/32: Tidy up JNZ instructions after TESTs
  x86/asm/entry/64: Reduce padding in execve stubs
  x86/asm/entry/64: Remove GET_THREAD_INFO() in ret_from_fork
  x86/asm/entry/64: Simplify jumps in ret_from_fork
  x86/asm/entry/64: Remove a redundant jump
  x86/asm/entry/64: Optimize [v]fork/clone stubs
  x86/asm/entry: Zero EXTRA_REGS for stub32_execve() too
  x86/asm/entry/64: Move stub_x32_execvecloser() to stub_execveat()
  x86/asm/entry/64: Use common code for rt_sigreturn() epilogue
  x86/asm/entry/64: Add forgotten CFI annotation
  x86/asm/entry/irq: Simplify interrupt dispatch table (IDT) layout
  x86/asm/entry/64: Move opportunistic sysret code to syscall code path
  x86, selftests: Add sigreturn selftest
  x86/alternatives: Guard NOPs optimization
  x86/asm/entry: Clear EXTRA_REGS for all executable formats
  x86/signal: Remove pax argument from restore_sigcontext
  ...
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<pre>
Pull x86 asm changes from Ingo Molnar:
 "There were lots of changes in this development cycle:

   - over 100 separate cleanups, restructuring changes, speedups and
     fixes in the x86 system call, irq, trap and other entry code, part
     of a heroic effort to deobfuscate a decade old spaghetti asm code
     and its C code dependencies (Denys Vlasenko, Andy Lutomirski)

   - alternatives code fixes and enhancements (Borislav Petkov)

   - simplifications and cleanups to the compat code (Brian Gerst)

   - signal handling fixes and new x86 testcases (Andy Lutomirski)

   - various other fixes and cleanups

  By their nature many of these changes are risky - we tried to test
  them well on many different x86 systems (there are no known
  regressions), and they are split up finely to help bisection - but
  there's still a fair bit of residual risk left so caveat emptor"

* 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (148 commits)
  perf/x86/64: Report regs_user-&gt;ax too in get_regs_user()
  perf/x86/64: Simplify regs_user-&gt;abi setting code in get_regs_user()
  perf/x86/64: Do report user_regs-&gt;cx while we are in syscall, in get_regs_user()
  perf/x86/64: Do not guess user_regs-&gt;cs, ss, sp in get_regs_user()
  x86/asm/entry/32: Tidy up JNZ instructions after TESTs
  x86/asm/entry/64: Reduce padding in execve stubs
  x86/asm/entry/64: Remove GET_THREAD_INFO() in ret_from_fork
  x86/asm/entry/64: Simplify jumps in ret_from_fork
  x86/asm/entry/64: Remove a redundant jump
  x86/asm/entry/64: Optimize [v]fork/clone stubs
  x86/asm/entry: Zero EXTRA_REGS for stub32_execve() too
  x86/asm/entry/64: Move stub_x32_execvecloser() to stub_execveat()
  x86/asm/entry/64: Use common code for rt_sigreturn() epilogue
  x86/asm/entry/64: Add forgotten CFI annotation
  x86/asm/entry/irq: Simplify interrupt dispatch table (IDT) layout
  x86/asm/entry/64: Move opportunistic sysret code to syscall code path
  x86, selftests: Add sigreturn selftest
  x86/alternatives: Guard NOPs optimization
  x86/asm/entry: Clear EXTRA_REGS for all executable formats
  x86/signal: Remove pax argument from restore_sigcontext
  ...
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</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm</title>
<updated>2015-04-13T16:47:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-04-13T16:47:01+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rtsrv.cs.unc.edu/cgit/cgit.cgi/litmus-rt.git/commit/?id=900360131066f192c82311a098d03d6ac6429e20'/>
<id>900360131066f192c82311a098d03d6ac6429e20</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull KVM updates from Paolo Bonzini:
 "First batch of KVM changes for 4.1

  The most interesting bit here is irqfd/ioeventfd support for ARM and
  ARM64.

  Summary:

  ARM/ARM64:
     fixes for live migration, irqfd and ioeventfd support (enabling
     vhost, too), page aging

  s390:
     interrupt handling rework, allowing to inject all local interrupts
     via new ioctl and to get/set the full local irq state for migration
     and introspection.  New ioctls to access memory by virtual address,
     and to get/set the guest storage keys.  SIMD support.

  MIPS:
     FPU and MIPS SIMD Architecture (MSA) support.  Includes some
     patches from Ralf Baechle's MIPS tree.

  x86:
     bugfixes (notably for pvclock, the others are small) and cleanups.
     Another small latency improvement for the TSC deadline timer"

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (146 commits)
  KVM: use slowpath for cross page cached accesses
  kvm: mmu: lazy collapse small sptes into large sptes
  KVM: x86: Clear CR2 on VCPU reset
  KVM: x86: DR0-DR3 are not clear on reset
  KVM: x86: BSP in MSR_IA32_APICBASE is writable
  KVM: x86: simplify kvm_apic_map
  KVM: x86: avoid logical_map when it is invalid
  KVM: x86: fix mixed APIC mode broadcast
  KVM: x86: use MDA for interrupt matching
  kvm/ppc/mpic: drop unused IRQ_testbit
  KVM: nVMX: remove unnecessary double caching of MAXPHYADDR
  KVM: nVMX: checks for address bits beyond MAXPHYADDR on VM-entry
  KVM: x86: cache maxphyaddr CPUID leaf in struct kvm_vcpu
  KVM: vmx: pass error code with internal error #2
  x86: vdso: fix pvclock races with task migration
  KVM: remove kvm_read_hva and kvm_read_hva_atomic
  KVM: x86: optimize delivery of TSC deadline timer interrupt
  KVM: x86: extract blocking logic from __vcpu_run
  kvm: x86: fix x86 eflags fixed bit
  KVM: s390: migrate vcpu interrupt state
  ...
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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Pull KVM updates from Paolo Bonzini:
 "First batch of KVM changes for 4.1

  The most interesting bit here is irqfd/ioeventfd support for ARM and
  ARM64.

  Summary:

  ARM/ARM64:
     fixes for live migration, irqfd and ioeventfd support (enabling
     vhost, too), page aging

  s390:
     interrupt handling rework, allowing to inject all local interrupts
     via new ioctl and to get/set the full local irq state for migration
     and introspection.  New ioctls to access memory by virtual address,
     and to get/set the guest storage keys.  SIMD support.

  MIPS:
     FPU and MIPS SIMD Architecture (MSA) support.  Includes some
     patches from Ralf Baechle's MIPS tree.

  x86:
     bugfixes (notably for pvclock, the others are small) and cleanups.
     Another small latency improvement for the TSC deadline timer"

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (146 commits)
  KVM: use slowpath for cross page cached accesses
  kvm: mmu: lazy collapse small sptes into large sptes
  KVM: x86: Clear CR2 on VCPU reset
  KVM: x86: DR0-DR3 are not clear on reset
  KVM: x86: BSP in MSR_IA32_APICBASE is writable
  KVM: x86: simplify kvm_apic_map
  KVM: x86: avoid logical_map when it is invalid
  KVM: x86: fix mixed APIC mode broadcast
  KVM: x86: use MDA for interrupt matching
  kvm/ppc/mpic: drop unused IRQ_testbit
  KVM: nVMX: remove unnecessary double caching of MAXPHYADDR
  KVM: nVMX: checks for address bits beyond MAXPHYADDR on VM-entry
  KVM: x86: cache maxphyaddr CPUID leaf in struct kvm_vcpu
  KVM: vmx: pass error code with internal error #2
  x86: vdso: fix pvclock races with task migration
  KVM: remove kvm_read_hva and kvm_read_hva_atomic
  KVM: x86: optimize delivery of TSC deadline timer interrupt
  KVM: x86: extract blocking logic from __vcpu_run
  kvm: x86: fix x86 eflags fixed bit
  KVM: s390: migrate vcpu interrupt state
  ...
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/mm/KASLR: Propagate KASLR status to kernel proper</title>
<updated>2015-04-03T13:26:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Borislav Petkov</name>
<email>bp@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2015-04-01T10:49:52+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rtsrv.cs.unc.edu/cgit/cgit.cgi/litmus-rt.git/commit/?id=78cac48c0434c82e860fade3cd0420a7a4adbb08'/>
<id>78cac48c0434c82e860fade3cd0420a7a4adbb08</id>
<content type='text'>
Commit:

  e2b32e678513 ("x86, kaslr: randomize module base load address")

made module base address randomization unconditional and didn't regard
disabled KKASLR due to CONFIG_HIBERNATION and command line option
"nokaslr". For more info see (now reverted) commit:

  f47233c2d34f ("x86/mm/ASLR: Propagate base load address calculation")

In order to propagate KASLR status to kernel proper, we need a single bit
in boot_params.hdr.loadflags and we've chosen bit 1 thus leaving the
top-down allocated bits for bits supposed to be used by the bootloader.

Originally-From: Jiri Kosina &lt;jkosina@suse.cz&gt;
Suggested-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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Commit:

  e2b32e678513 ("x86, kaslr: randomize module base load address")

made module base address randomization unconditional and didn't regard
disabled KKASLR due to CONFIG_HIBERNATION and command line option
"nokaslr". For more info see (now reverted) commit:

  f47233c2d34f ("x86/mm/ASLR: Propagate base load address calculation")

In order to propagate KASLR status to kernel proper, we need a single bit
in boot_params.hdr.loadflags and we've chosen bit 1 thus leaving the
top-down allocated bits for bits supposed to be used by the bootloader.

Originally-From: Jiri Kosina &lt;jkosina@suse.cz&gt;
Suggested-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
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