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<title>Merge branches 'audit', 'delay', 'fixes', 'misc' and 'sta2x11' into for-linus</title>
<updated>2012-07-27T22:06:32+00:00</updated>
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<name>Russell King</name>
<email>rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk</email>
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<published>2012-07-27T22:06:32+00:00</published>
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<title>ARM: 7448/1: perf: remove arm_perf_pmu_ids global enumeration</title>
<updated>2012-07-09T16:41:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Will Deacon</name>
<email>will.deacon@arm.com</email>
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<published>2012-07-06T14:45:00+00:00</published>
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In order to provide PMU name strings compatible with the OProfile
user ABI, an enumeration of all PMUs is currently used by perf to
identify each PMU uniquely. Unfortunately, this does not scale well
in the presence of multiple PMUs and creates a single, global namespace
across all PMUs in the system.

This patch removes the enumeration and instead uses the name string
for the PMU to map onto the OProfile variant. perf_pmu_name is
implemented for CPU PMUs, which is all that OProfile cares about anyway.

Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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In order to provide PMU name strings compatible with the OProfile
user ABI, an enumeration of all PMUs is currently used by perf to
identify each PMU uniquely. Unfortunately, this does not scale well
in the presence of multiple PMUs and creates a single, global namespace
across all PMUs in the system.

This patch removes the enumeration and instead uses the name string
for the PMU to map onto the OProfile variant. perf_pmu_name is
implemented for CPU PMUs, which is all that OProfile cares about anyway.

Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<title>ARM: 7441/1: perf: return -EOPNOTSUPP if requested mode exclusion is unavailable</title>
<updated>2012-07-05T08:50:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Will Deacon</name>
<email>will.deacon@arm.com</email>
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<published>2012-07-04T17:15:42+00:00</published>
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We currently return -EPERM if the user requests mode exclusion that is
not supported by the CPU. This looks pretty confusing from userspace
and is inconsistent with other architectures (ppc, x86).

This patch returns -EOPNOTSUPP instead.

Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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We currently return -EPERM if the user requests mode exclusion that is
not supported by the CPU. This looks pretty confusing from userspace
and is inconsistent with other architectures (ppc, x86).

This patch returns -EOPNOTSUPP instead.

Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.linaro.org/people/rmk/linux-arm</title>
<updated>2012-03-29T23:53:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2012-03-29T23:53:48+00:00</published>
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Pull more ARM updates from Russell King.

This got a fair number of conflicts with the &lt;asm/system.h&gt; split, but
also with some other sparse-irq and header file include cleanups.  They
all looked pretty trivial, though.

* 'for-linus' of git://git.linaro.org/people/rmk/linux-arm: (59 commits)
  ARM: fix Kconfig warning for HAVE_BPF_JIT
  ARM: 7361/1: provide XIP_VIRT_ADDR for no-MMU builds
  ARM: 7349/1: integrator: convert to sparse irqs
  ARM: 7259/3: net: JIT compiler for packet filters
  ARM: 7334/1: add jump label support
  ARM: 7333/2: jump label: detect %c support for ARM
  ARM: 7338/1: add support for early console output via semihosting
  ARM: use set_current_blocked() and block_sigmask()
  ARM: exec: remove redundant set_fs(USER_DS)
  ARM: 7332/1: extract out code patch function from kprobes
  ARM: 7331/1: extract out insn generation code from ftrace
  ARM: 7330/1: ftrace: use canonical Thumb-2 wide instruction format
  ARM: 7351/1: ftrace: remove useless memory checks
  ARM: 7316/1: kexec: EOI active and mask all interrupts in kexec crash path
  ARM: Versatile Express: add NO_IOPORT
  ARM: get rid of asm/irq.h in asm/prom.h
  ARM: 7319/1: Print debug info for SIGBUS in user faults
  ARM: 7318/1: gic: refactor irq_start assignment
  ARM: 7317/1: irq: avoid NULL check in for_each_irq_desc loop
  ARM: 7315/1: perf: add support for the Cortex-A7 PMU
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Pull more ARM updates from Russell King.

This got a fair number of conflicts with the &lt;asm/system.h&gt; split, but
also with some other sparse-irq and header file include cleanups.  They
all looked pretty trivial, though.

* 'for-linus' of git://git.linaro.org/people/rmk/linux-arm: (59 commits)
  ARM: fix Kconfig warning for HAVE_BPF_JIT
  ARM: 7361/1: provide XIP_VIRT_ADDR for no-MMU builds
  ARM: 7349/1: integrator: convert to sparse irqs
  ARM: 7259/3: net: JIT compiler for packet filters
  ARM: 7334/1: add jump label support
  ARM: 7333/2: jump label: detect %c support for ARM
  ARM: 7338/1: add support for early console output via semihosting
  ARM: use set_current_blocked() and block_sigmask()
  ARM: exec: remove redundant set_fs(USER_DS)
  ARM: 7332/1: extract out code patch function from kprobes
  ARM: 7331/1: extract out insn generation code from ftrace
  ARM: 7330/1: ftrace: use canonical Thumb-2 wide instruction format
  ARM: 7351/1: ftrace: remove useless memory checks
  ARM: 7316/1: kexec: EOI active and mask all interrupts in kexec crash path
  ARM: Versatile Express: add NO_IOPORT
  ARM: get rid of asm/irq.h in asm/prom.h
  ARM: 7319/1: Print debug info for SIGBUS in user faults
  ARM: 7318/1: gic: refactor irq_start assignment
  ARM: 7317/1: irq: avoid NULL check in for_each_irq_desc loop
  ARM: 7315/1: perf: add support for the Cortex-A7 PMU
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<title>ARM: 7315/1: perf: add support for the Cortex-A7 PMU</title>
<updated>2012-03-24T09:38:53+00:00</updated>
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<name>Will Deacon</name>
<email>will.deacon@arm.com</email>
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<published>2012-02-03T13:46:01+00:00</published>
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Cortex-A7 implements an ARMv7-compatible PMU compliant with the PMUv2
architecture specification.

This patch adds support for the PMU to the ARM perf backend.

Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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Cortex-A7 implements an ARMv7-compatible PMU compliant with the PMUv2
architecture specification.

This patch adds support for the PMU to the ARM perf backend.

Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'perf/hw-branch-sampling' into perf/core</title>
<updated>2012-03-12T19:47:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ingo Molnar</name>
<email>mingo@elte.hu</email>
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<published>2012-03-12T19:46:35+00:00</published>
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Merge reason: The 'perf record -b' hardware branch sampling feature is ready for upstream.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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Merge reason: The 'perf record -b' hardware branch sampling feature is ready for upstream.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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<title>ARM: 7358/1: perf: add PMU hotplug notifier</title>
<updated>2012-03-07T09:40:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Lorenzo Pieralisi</name>
<email>Lorenzo.Pieralisi@arm.com</email>
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<published>2012-03-06T16:37:45+00:00</published>
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When a CPU is taken out of reset, either cold booted or hotplugged in,
some of its PMU registers can contain UNKNOWN values.

This patch adds a hotplug notifier to ARM core perf code so that upon
CPU restart the PMU unit is reset and becomes ready to use again.

Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Pieralisi &lt;lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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When a CPU is taken out of reset, either cold booted or hotplugged in,
some of its PMU registers can contain UNKNOWN values.

This patch adds a hotplug notifier to ARM core perf code so that upon
CPU restart the PMU unit is reset and becomes ready to use again.

Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Pieralisi &lt;lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<title>ARM: 7354/1: perf: limit sample_period to half max_period in non-sampling mode</title>
<updated>2012-03-07T09:40:48+00:00</updated>
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<name>Will Deacon</name>
<email>will.deacon@arm.com</email>
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<published>2012-03-06T16:33:17+00:00</published>
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On ARM, the PMU does not stop counting after an overflow and therefore
IRQ latency affects the new counter value read by the kernel. This is
significant for non-sampling runs where it is possible for the new value
to overtake the previous one, causing the delta to be out by up to
max_period events.

Commit a737823d ("ARM: 6835/1: perf: ensure overflows aren't missed due
to IRQ latency") attempted to fix this problem by allowing interrupt
handlers to pass an overflow flag to the event update function, causing
the overflow calculation to assume that the counter passed through zero
when going from prev to new. Unfortunately, this doesn't work when
overflow occurs on the perf_task_tick path because we have the flag
cleared and end up computing a large negative delta.

This patch removes the overflow flag from armpmu_event_update and
instead limits the sample_period to half of the max_period for
non-sampling profiling runs.

Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei &lt;ming.lei@canonical.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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On ARM, the PMU does not stop counting after an overflow and therefore
IRQ latency affects the new counter value read by the kernel. This is
significant for non-sampling runs where it is possible for the new value
to overtake the previous one, causing the delta to be out by up to
max_period events.

Commit a737823d ("ARM: 6835/1: perf: ensure overflows aren't missed due
to IRQ latency") attempted to fix this problem by allowing interrupt
handlers to pass an overflow flag to the event update function, causing
the overflow calculation to assume that the counter passed through zero
when going from prev to new. Unfortunately, this doesn't work when
overflow occurs on the perf_task_tick path because we have the flag
cleared and end up computing a large negative delta.

This patch removes the overflow flag from armpmu_event_update and
instead limits the sample_period to half of the max_period for
non-sampling profiling runs.

Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei &lt;ming.lei@canonical.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<title>perf: Disable PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_* when not supported</title>
<updated>2012-03-05T13:55:42+00:00</updated>
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<name>Stephane Eranian</name>
<email>eranian@google.com</email>
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<published>2012-02-09T22:20:59+00:00</published>
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PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_* is disabled for:

 - SW events (sw counters, tracepoints)
 - HW breakpoints
 - ALL but Intel x86 architecture
 - AMD64 processors

Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian &lt;eranian@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1328826068-11713-10-git-send-email-eranian@google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_* is disabled for:

 - SW events (sw counters, tracepoints)
 - HW breakpoints
 - ALL but Intel x86 architecture
 - AMD64 processors

Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian &lt;eranian@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1328826068-11713-10-git-send-email-eranian@google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'devel-stable' into for-linus</title>
<updated>2012-01-05T13:24:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Russell King</name>
<email>rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk</email>
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<published>2012-01-05T13:24:33+00:00</published>
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Conflicts:
	arch/arm/kernel/setup.c
	arch/arm/mach-shmobile/board-kota2.c
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