Merge remote-tracking branch 'tip/perf/core' into kvm-updates/3.3

* tip/perf/core: (66 commits)
  perf, x86: Expose perf capability to other modules
  perf, x86: Implement arch event mask as quirk
  x86, perf: Disable non available architectural events
  jump_label: Provide jump_label_key initializers
  jump_label, x86: Fix section mismatch
  perf, core: Rate limit perf_sched_events jump_label patching
  perf: Fix enable_on_exec for sibling events
  perf: Remove superfluous arguments
  perf, x86: Prefer fixed-purpose counters when scheduling
  perf, x86: Fix event scheduler for constraints with overlapping counters
  perf, x86: Implement event scheduler helper functions
  perf: Avoid a useless pmu_disable() in the perf-tick
  x86/tools: Add decoded instruction dump mode
  x86: Update instruction decoder to support new AVX formats
  x86/tools: Fix insn_sanity message outputs
  x86/tools: Fix instruction decoder message output
  x86: Fix instruction decoder to handle grouped AVX instructions
  x86/tools: Fix Makefile to build all test tools
  perf test: Soft errors shouldn't stop the "Validate PERF_RECORD_" test
  perf test: Validate PERF_RECORD_ events and perf_sample fields
  ...

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>

* commit 'b3d9468a8bd218a695e3a0ff112cd4efd27b670a': (66 commits)
  perf, x86: Expose perf capability to other modules
  perf, x86: Implement arch event mask as quirk
  x86, perf: Disable non available architectural events
  jump_label: Provide jump_label_key initializers
  jump_label, x86: Fix section mismatch
  perf, core: Rate limit perf_sched_events jump_label patching
  perf: Fix enable_on_exec for sibling events
  perf: Remove superfluous arguments
  perf, x86: Prefer fixed-purpose counters when scheduling
  perf, x86: Fix event scheduler for constraints with overlapping counters
  perf, x86: Implement event scheduler helper functions
  perf: Avoid a useless pmu_disable() in the perf-tick
  x86/tools: Add decoded instruction dump mode
  x86: Update instruction decoder to support new AVX formats
  x86/tools: Fix insn_sanity message outputs
  x86/tools: Fix instruction decoder message output
  x86: Fix instruction decoder to handle grouped AVX instructions
  x86/tools: Fix Makefile to build all test tools
  perf test: Soft errors shouldn't stop the "Validate PERF_RECORD_" test
  perf test: Validate PERF_RECORD_ events and perf_sample fields
  ...

2 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
index 6e7cce096e6b..e35c1efffdfd 100644
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -1882,6 +1882,9 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
                         arch_perfmon: [X86] Force use of architectural
                                 perfmon on Intel CPUs instead of the
                                 CPU specific event set.
+                        timer: [X86] Force use of architectural NMI
+                                timer mode (see also oprofile.timer
+                                for generic hr timer mode)
 
         oops=panic      Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the
                         process, but there is a small probability of
diff --git a/Documentation/trace/events.txt b/Documentation/trace/events.txt
index b510564aac7e..bb24c2a0e870 100644
--- a/Documentation/trace/events.txt
+++ b/Documentation/trace/events.txt
@@ -191,8 +191,6 @@ And for string fields they are:
 
 Currently, only exact string matches are supported.
 
-Currently, the maximum number of predicates in a filter is 16.
-
 5.2 Setting filters
 -------------------