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<title>x86: Add new MSRs and MSR bits used for Intel Skylake PMU support</title>
<updated>2016-04-18T12:49:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andi Kleen</name>
<email>ak@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-05-10T19:22:41+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit b83ff1c8617aac03a1cf807aafa848fe0f0908f2 ]

Add new MSRs (LBR_INFO) and some new MSR bits used by the Intel Skylake
PMU driver.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: eranian@google.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1431285767-27027-4-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sasha.levin@oracle.com&gt;
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[ Upstream commit b83ff1c8617aac03a1cf807aafa848fe0f0908f2 ]

Add new MSRs (LBR_INFO) and some new MSR bits used by the Intel Skylake
PMU driver.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: eranian@google.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1431285767-27027-4-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sasha.levin@oracle.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>KVM: x86: work around infinite loop in microcode when #AC is delivered</title>
<updated>2015-12-14T17:17:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Northup</name>
<email>digitaleric@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-11-03T17:03:53+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 54a20552e1eae07aa240fa370a0293e006b5faed ]

It was found that a guest can DoS a host by triggering an infinite
stream of "alignment check" (#AC) exceptions.  This causes the
microcode to enter an infinite loop where the core never receives
another interrupt.  The host kernel panics pretty quickly due to the
effects (CVE-2015-5307).

Signed-off-by: Eric Northup &lt;digitaleric@google.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sasha.levin@oracle.com&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 54a20552e1eae07aa240fa370a0293e006b5faed ]

It was found that a guest can DoS a host by triggering an infinite
stream of "alignment check" (#AC) exceptions.  This causes the
microcode to enter an infinite loop where the core never receives
another interrupt.  The host kernel panics pretty quickly due to the
effects (CVE-2015-5307).

Signed-off-by: Eric Northup &lt;digitaleric@google.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sasha.levin@oracle.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/tls: Don't validate lm in set_thread_area() after all</title>
<updated>2015-01-08T18:30:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andy Lutomirski</name>
<email>luto@amacapital.net</email>
</author>
<published>2014-12-17T22:48:30+00:00</published>
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commit 3fb2f4237bb452eb4e98f6a5dbd5a445b4fed9d0 upstream.

It turns out that there's a lurking ABI issue.  GCC, when
compiling this in a 32-bit program:

struct user_desc desc = {
	.entry_number    = idx,
	.base_addr       = base,
	.limit           = 0xfffff,
	.seg_32bit       = 1,
	.contents        = 0, /* Data, grow-up */
	.read_exec_only  = 0,
	.limit_in_pages  = 1,
	.seg_not_present = 0,
	.useable         = 0,
};

will leave .lm uninitialized.  This means that anything in the
kernel that reads user_desc.lm for 32-bit tasks is unreliable.

Revert the .lm check in set_thread_area().  The value never did
anything in the first place.

Fixes: 0e58af4e1d21 ("x86/tls: Disallow unusual TLS segments")
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/d7875b60e28c512f6a6fc0baf5714d58e7eaadbb.1418856405.git.luto@amacapital.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 3fb2f4237bb452eb4e98f6a5dbd5a445b4fed9d0 upstream.

It turns out that there's a lurking ABI issue.  GCC, when
compiling this in a 32-bit program:

struct user_desc desc = {
	.entry_number    = idx,
	.base_addr       = base,
	.limit           = 0xfffff,
	.seg_32bit       = 1,
	.contents        = 0, /* Data, grow-up */
	.read_exec_only  = 0,
	.limit_in_pages  = 1,
	.seg_not_present = 0,
	.useable         = 0,
};

will leave .lm uninitialized.  This means that anything in the
kernel that reads user_desc.lm for 32-bit tasks is unreliable.

Revert the .lm check in set_thread_area().  The value never did
anything in the first place.

Fixes: 0e58af4e1d21 ("x86/tls: Disallow unusual TLS segments")
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/d7875b60e28c512f6a6fc0baf5714d58e7eaadbb.1418856405.git.luto@amacapital.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>kvm: vmx: handle invvpid vm exit gracefully</title>
<updated>2014-10-24T11:21:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Petr Matousek</name>
<email>pmatouse@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-09-23T18:22:30+00:00</published>
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On systems with invvpid instruction support (corresponding bit in
IA32_VMX_EPT_VPID_CAP MSR is set) guest invocation of invvpid
causes vm exit, which is currently not handled and results in
propagation of unknown exit to userspace.

Fix this by installing an invvpid vm exit handler.

This is CVE-2014-3646.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Petr Matousek &lt;pmatouse@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
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On systems with invvpid instruction support (corresponding bit in
IA32_VMX_EPT_VPID_CAP MSR is set) guest invocation of invvpid
causes vm exit, which is currently not handled and results in
propagation of unknown exit to userspace.

Fix this by installing an invvpid vm exit handler.

This is CVE-2014-3646.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Petr Matousek &lt;pmatouse@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'x86-cleanups-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2014-10-13T16:19:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-10-13T16:19:01+00:00</published>
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Pull x86 cleanups from Ingo Molnar:
 "Three small cleanups"

* 'x86-cleanups-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/tty/serial/8250: Clean up the asm/serial.h include file a bit
  x86/tty/serial/8250: Resolve missing-field-initializers warnings
  x86: Remove obsolete comment in uapi/e820.h
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Pull x86 cleanups from Ingo Molnar:
 "Three small cleanups"

* 'x86-cleanups-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/tty/serial/8250: Clean up the asm/serial.h include file a bit
  x86/tty/serial/8250: Resolve missing-field-initializers warnings
  x86: Remove obsolete comment in uapi/e820.h
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86: Remove obsolete comment in uapi/e820.h</title>
<updated>2014-08-21T06:43:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ross Zwisler</name>
<email>ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-05-19T17:50:24+00:00</published>
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A comment introduced by this old commit:

  028b785888c5 ("x86 boot: extend some internal memory map arrays to handle larger EFI input")

had to do with some nested preprocessor directives.  The
directives were split into separate files by this commit:

  af170c5061dd ("UAPI: (Scripted) Disintegrate arch/x86/include/asm")

The comment explaining their interaction was retained and is now
present in arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/e820.h.  This comment is no
longer correct, so delete it.

Signed-off-by: Ross Zwisler &lt;ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1400521824-21040-1-git-send-email-ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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A comment introduced by this old commit:

  028b785888c5 ("x86 boot: extend some internal memory map arrays to handle larger EFI input")

had to do with some nested preprocessor directives.  The
directives were split into separate files by this commit:

  af170c5061dd ("UAPI: (Scripted) Disintegrate arch/x86/include/asm")

The comment explaining their interaction was retained and is now
present in arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/e820.h.  This comment is no
longer correct, so delete it.

Signed-off-by: Ross Zwisler &lt;ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1400521824-21040-1-git-send-email-ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux</title>
<updated>2014-08-16T15:25:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-08-16T15:25:34+00:00</published>
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Pull idle update from Len Brown:
 "Two Intel-platform-specific updates to intel_idle, and a cosmetic
  tweak to the turbostat utility"

* 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux:
  tools/power turbostat: tweak whitespace in output format
  intel_idle: Broadwell support
  intel_idle: Disable Baytrail Core and Module C6 auto-demotion
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Pull idle update from Len Brown:
 "Two Intel-platform-specific updates to intel_idle, and a cosmetic
  tweak to the turbostat utility"

* 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux:
  tools/power turbostat: tweak whitespace in output format
  intel_idle: Broadwell support
  intel_idle: Disable Baytrail Core and Module C6 auto-demotion
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>intel_idle: Disable Baytrail Core and Module C6 auto-demotion</title>
<updated>2014-08-15T21:06:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Len Brown</name>
<email>len.brown@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-07-31T19:21:24+00:00</published>
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Power efficiency improves on Baytrail (Intel Atom Processor E3000)
when Linux disables C6 auto-demotion.

Based on work by Srinidhi Kasagar &lt;srinidhi.kasagar@intel.com&gt;.

Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
Cc: x86@kernel.org
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Power efficiency improves on Baytrail (Intel Atom Processor E3000)
when Linux disables C6 auto-demotion.

Based on work by Srinidhi Kasagar &lt;srinidhi.kasagar@intel.com&gt;.

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-cpufeature-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2014-08-05T00:12:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-08-05T00:12:45+00:00</published>
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Pull x86 cpufeature updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The main changes in this cycle were:

   - Continued cleanups of CPU bugs mis-marked as 'missing features', by
     Borislav Petkov.

   - Detect the xsaves/xrstors feature and releated cleanup, by Fenghua
     Yu"

* 'x86-cpufeature-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86, cpu: Kill cpu_has_mp
  x86, amd: Cleanup init_amd
  x86/cpufeature: Add bug flags to /proc/cpuinfo
  x86, cpufeature: Convert more "features" to bugs
  x86/xsaves: Detect xsaves/xrstors feature
  x86/cpufeature.h: Reformat x86 feature macros
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Pull x86 cpufeature updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The main changes in this cycle were:

   - Continued cleanups of CPU bugs mis-marked as 'missing features', by
     Borislav Petkov.

   - Detect the xsaves/xrstors feature and releated cleanup, by Fenghua
     Yu"

* 'x86-cpufeature-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86, cpu: Kill cpu_has_mp
  x86, amd: Cleanup init_amd
  x86/cpufeature: Add bug flags to /proc/cpuinfo
  x86, cpufeature: Convert more "features" to bugs
  x86/xsaves: Detect xsaves/xrstors feature
  x86/cpufeature.h: Reformat x86 feature macros
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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>2014-08-04T23:09:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-08-04T23:09:53+00:00</published>
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Pull perf changes from Ingo Molnar:
 "Kernel side changes:

   - Consolidate the PMU interrupt-disabled code amongst architectures
     (Vince Weaver)

   - misc fixes

  Tooling changes (new features, user visible changes):

   - Add support for pagefault tracing in 'trace', please see multiple
     examples in the changeset messages (Stanislav Fomichev).

   - Add pagefault statistics in 'trace' (Stanislav Fomichev)

   - Add header for columns in 'top' and 'report' TUI browsers (Jiri
     Olsa)

   - Add pagefault statistics in 'trace' (Stanislav Fomichev)

   - Add IO mode into timechart command (Stanislav Fomichev)

   - Fallback to syscalls:* when raw_syscalls:* is not available in the
     perl and python perf scripts.  (Daniel Bristot de Oliveira)

   - Add --repeat global option to 'perf bench' to be used in benchmarks
     such as the existing 'futex' one, that was modified to use it
     instead of a local option.  (Davidlohr Bueso)

   - Fix fd -&gt; pathname resolution in 'trace', be it using /proc or a
     vfs_getname probe point.  (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)

   - Add suggestion of how to set perf_event_paranoid sysctl, to help
     non-root users trying tools like 'trace' to get a working
     environment.  (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)

   - Updates from trace-cmd for traceevent plugin_kvm plus args cleanup
     (Steven Rostedt, Jan Kiszka)

   - Support S/390 in 'perf kvm stat' (Alexander Yarygin)

  Tooling infrastructure changes:

   - Allow reserving a row for header purposes in the hists browser
     (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)

   - Various fixes and prep work related to supporting Intel PT (Adrian
     Hunter)

   - Introduce multiple debug variables control (Jiri Olsa)

   - Add callchain and additional sample information for python scripts
     (Joseph Schuchart)

   - More prep work to support Intel PT: (Adrian Hunter)
     - Polishing 'script' BTS output
     - 'inject' can specify --kallsym
     - VDSO is per machine, not a global var
     - Expose data addr lookup functions previously private to 'script'
     - Large mmap fixes in events processing

   - Include standard stringify macros in power pc code (Sukadev
     Bhattiprolu)

  Tooling cleanups:

   - Convert open coded equivalents to asprintf() (Andy Shevchenko)

   - Remove needless reassignments in 'trace' (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)

   - Cache the is_exit syscall test in 'trace) (Arnaldo Carvalho de
     Melo)

   - No need to reimplement err() in 'perf bench sched-messaging', drop
     barf().  (Davidlohr Bueso).

   - Remove ev_name argument from perf_evsel__hists_browse, can be
     obtained from the other parameters.  (Jiri Olsa)

  Tooling fixes:

   - Fix memory leak in the 'sched-messaging' perf bench test.
     (Davidlohr Bueso)

   - The -o and -n 'perf bench mem' options are mutually exclusive, emit
     error when both are specified.  (Davidlohr Bueso)

   - Fix scrollbar refresh row index in the ui browser, problem exposed
     now that headers will be added and will be allowed to be switched
     on/off.  (Jiri Olsa)

   - Handle the num array type in python properly (Sebastian Andrzej
     Siewior)

   - Fix wrong condition for allocation failure (Jiri Olsa)

   - Adjust callchain based on DWARF debug info on powerpc (Sukadev
     Bhattiprolu)

   - Fix a risk for doing free on uninitialized pointer in traceevent
     lib (Rickard Strandqvist)

   - Update attr test with PERF_FLAG_FD_CLOEXEC flag (Jiri Olsa)

   - Enable close-on-exec flag on perf file descriptor (Yann Droneaud)

   - Fix build on gcc 4.4.7 (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)

   - Event ordering fixes (Jiri Olsa)"

* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (123 commits)
  Revert "perf tools: Fix jump label always changing during tracing"
  perf tools: Fix perf usage string leftover
  perf: Check permission only for parent tracepoint event
  perf record: Store PERF_RECORD_FINISHED_ROUND only for nonempty rounds
  perf record: Always force PERF_RECORD_FINISHED_ROUND event
  perf inject: Add --kallsyms parameter
  perf tools: Expose 'addr' functions so they can be reused
  perf session: Fix accounting of ordered samples queue
  perf powerpc: Include util/util.h and remove stringify macros
  perf tools: Fix build on gcc 4.4.7
  perf tools: Add thread parameter to vdso__dso_findnew()
  perf tools: Add dso__type()
  perf tools: Separate the VDSO map name from the VDSO dso name
  perf tools: Add vdso__new()
  perf machine: Fix the lifetime of the VDSO temporary file
  perf tools: Group VDSO global variables into a structure
  perf session: Add ability to skip 4GiB or more
  perf session: Add ability to 'skip' a non-piped event stream
  perf tools: Pass machine to vdso__dso_findnew()
  perf tools: Add dso__data_size()
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Pull perf changes from Ingo Molnar:
 "Kernel side changes:

   - Consolidate the PMU interrupt-disabled code amongst architectures
     (Vince Weaver)

   - misc fixes

  Tooling changes (new features, user visible changes):

   - Add support for pagefault tracing in 'trace', please see multiple
     examples in the changeset messages (Stanislav Fomichev).

   - Add pagefault statistics in 'trace' (Stanislav Fomichev)

   - Add header for columns in 'top' and 'report' TUI browsers (Jiri
     Olsa)

   - Add pagefault statistics in 'trace' (Stanislav Fomichev)

   - Add IO mode into timechart command (Stanislav Fomichev)

   - Fallback to syscalls:* when raw_syscalls:* is not available in the
     perl and python perf scripts.  (Daniel Bristot de Oliveira)

   - Add --repeat global option to 'perf bench' to be used in benchmarks
     such as the existing 'futex' one, that was modified to use it
     instead of a local option.  (Davidlohr Bueso)

   - Fix fd -&gt; pathname resolution in 'trace', be it using /proc or a
     vfs_getname probe point.  (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)

   - Add suggestion of how to set perf_event_paranoid sysctl, to help
     non-root users trying tools like 'trace' to get a working
     environment.  (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)

   - Updates from trace-cmd for traceevent plugin_kvm plus args cleanup
     (Steven Rostedt, Jan Kiszka)

   - Support S/390 in 'perf kvm stat' (Alexander Yarygin)

  Tooling infrastructure changes:

   - Allow reserving a row for header purposes in the hists browser
     (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)

   - Various fixes and prep work related to supporting Intel PT (Adrian
     Hunter)

   - Introduce multiple debug variables control (Jiri Olsa)

   - Add callchain and additional sample information for python scripts
     (Joseph Schuchart)

   - More prep work to support Intel PT: (Adrian Hunter)
     - Polishing 'script' BTS output
     - 'inject' can specify --kallsym
     - VDSO is per machine, not a global var
     - Expose data addr lookup functions previously private to 'script'
     - Large mmap fixes in events processing

   - Include standard stringify macros in power pc code (Sukadev
     Bhattiprolu)

  Tooling cleanups:

   - Convert open coded equivalents to asprintf() (Andy Shevchenko)

   - Remove needless reassignments in 'trace' (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)

   - Cache the is_exit syscall test in 'trace) (Arnaldo Carvalho de
     Melo)

   - No need to reimplement err() in 'perf bench sched-messaging', drop
     barf().  (Davidlohr Bueso).

   - Remove ev_name argument from perf_evsel__hists_browse, can be
     obtained from the other parameters.  (Jiri Olsa)

  Tooling fixes:

   - Fix memory leak in the 'sched-messaging' perf bench test.
     (Davidlohr Bueso)

   - The -o and -n 'perf bench mem' options are mutually exclusive, emit
     error when both are specified.  (Davidlohr Bueso)

   - Fix scrollbar refresh row index in the ui browser, problem exposed
     now that headers will be added and will be allowed to be switched
     on/off.  (Jiri Olsa)

   - Handle the num array type in python properly (Sebastian Andrzej
     Siewior)

   - Fix wrong condition for allocation failure (Jiri Olsa)

   - Adjust callchain based on DWARF debug info on powerpc (Sukadev
     Bhattiprolu)

   - Fix a risk for doing free on uninitialized pointer in traceevent
     lib (Rickard Strandqvist)

   - Update attr test with PERF_FLAG_FD_CLOEXEC flag (Jiri Olsa)

   - Enable close-on-exec flag on perf file descriptor (Yann Droneaud)

   - Fix build on gcc 4.4.7 (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)

   - Event ordering fixes (Jiri Olsa)"

* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (123 commits)
  Revert "perf tools: Fix jump label always changing during tracing"
  perf tools: Fix perf usage string leftover
  perf: Check permission only for parent tracepoint event
  perf record: Store PERF_RECORD_FINISHED_ROUND only for nonempty rounds
  perf record: Always force PERF_RECORD_FINISHED_ROUND event
  perf inject: Add --kallsyms parameter
  perf tools: Expose 'addr' functions so they can be reused
  perf session: Fix accounting of ordered samples queue
  perf powerpc: Include util/util.h and remove stringify macros
  perf tools: Fix build on gcc 4.4.7
  perf tools: Add thread parameter to vdso__dso_findnew()
  perf tools: Add dso__type()
  perf tools: Separate the VDSO map name from the VDSO dso name
  perf tools: Add vdso__new()
  perf machine: Fix the lifetime of the VDSO temporary file
  perf tools: Group VDSO global variables into a structure
  perf session: Add ability to skip 4GiB or more
  perf session: Add ability to 'skip' a non-piped event stream
  perf tools: Pass machine to vdso__dso_findnew()
  perf tools: Add dso__data_size()
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