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<title>powerpc/perf: Export PERF_EVENT_CONFIG_EBB_SHIFT to userspace</title>
<updated>2013-08-01T03:11:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Ellerman</name>
<email>michael@ellerman.id.au</email>
</author>
<published>2013-07-23T08:07:45+00:00</published>
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We use bit 63 of the event code for userspace to request that the event
be counted using EBB (Event Based Branches). Export this value, making
it part of the API - though only on processors that support EBB.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;michael@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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We use bit 63 of the event code for userspace to request that the event
be counted using EBB (Event Based Branches). Export this value, making
it part of the API - though only on processors that support EBB.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;michael@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc/perf: BHRB filter configuration should follow the task</title>
<updated>2013-07-24T04:42:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Anshuman Khandual</name>
<email>khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-06-10T05:53:29+00:00</published>
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When the task moves around the system, the corresponding cpuhw
per cpu strcuture should be popullated with the BHRB filter
request value so that PMU could be configured appropriately with
that during the next call into power_pmu_enable().

Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual &lt;khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Michael Neuling &lt;mikey@neuling.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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When the task moves around the system, the corresponding cpuhw
per cpu strcuture should be popullated with the BHRB filter
request value so that PMU could be configured appropriately with
that during the next call into power_pmu_enable().

Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual &lt;khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Michael Neuling &lt;mikey@neuling.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/perf: Ignore separate BHRB privilege state filter request</title>
<updated>2013-07-24T04:42:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Anshuman Khandual</name>
<email>khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-06-10T05:53:28+00:00</published>
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Completely ignore BHRB privilege state filter request as we are
already configuring that with privilege state filtering attribute
for the accompanying PMU event. This would help achieve cleaner
user space interaction for BHRB.

This patch fixes a situation like this

Before patch:-
------------
./perf record -j any -e branch-misses:k ls
Error:
The sys_perf_event_open() syscall returned with 95 (Operation not
supported) for event (branch-misses:k).
/bin/dmesg may provide additional information.
No CONFIG_PERF_EVENTS=y kernel support configured?

Here 'perf record' actually copies over ':k' filter request into BHRB
privilege state filter config and our previous check in kernel would
fail that.

After patch:-
-------------
./perf record -j any -e branch-misses:k ls
perf  perf.data  perf.data.old  test-mmap-ring
[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.002 MB perf.data (~102 samples)]

Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual &lt;khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Michael Neuling &lt;mikey@neuling.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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Completely ignore BHRB privilege state filter request as we are
already configuring that with privilege state filtering attribute
for the accompanying PMU event. This would help achieve cleaner
user space interaction for BHRB.

This patch fixes a situation like this

Before patch:-
------------
./perf record -j any -e branch-misses:k ls
Error:
The sys_perf_event_open() syscall returned with 95 (Operation not
supported) for event (branch-misses:k).
/bin/dmesg may provide additional information.
No CONFIG_PERF_EVENTS=y kernel support configured?

Here 'perf record' actually copies over ':k' filter request into BHRB
privilege state filter config and our previous check in kernel would
fail that.

After patch:-
-------------
./perf record -j any -e branch-misses:k ls
perf  perf.data  perf.data.old  test-mmap-ring
[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.002 MB perf.data (~102 samples)]

Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual &lt;khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Michael Neuling &lt;mikey@neuling.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc/perf: Set PPC_FEATURE2_EBB when we register the power8 PMU</title>
<updated>2013-07-24T04:18:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Ellerman</name>
<email>michael@ellerman.id.au</email>
</author>
<published>2013-07-13T02:53:40+00:00</published>
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The presence or absence of EBB is advertised to userspace via the presence
or absence of PPC_FEATURE2_EBB in cpu_user_features2.

Because the kernel can be built without PMU support, we should only add
PPC_FEATURE2_EBB to cpu_user_features2 when we successfully register the
power8 PMU support.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;michael@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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The presence or absence of EBB is advertised to userspace via the presence
or absence of PPC_FEATURE2_EBB in cpu_user_features2.

Because the kernel can be built without PMU support, we should only add
PPC_FEATURE2_EBB to cpu_user_features2 when we successfully register the
power8 PMU support.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;michael@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2013-07-13T22:35:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-07-13T22:35:47+00:00</published>
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Pull perf fixes from Thomas Gleixner:
 - fix for do_div() abuse on x86
 - locking fix in perf core
 - a pile of (build) fixes and cleanups in perf tools

* 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (27 commits)
  perf/x86: Fix incorrect use of do_div() in NMI warning
  perf: Fix perf_lock_task_context() vs RCU
  perf: Remove WARN_ON_ONCE() check in __perf_event_enable() for valid scenario
  perf: Clone child context from parent context pmu
  perf script: Fix broken include in Context.xs
  perf tools: Fix -ldw/-lelf link test when static linking
  perf tools: Revert regression in configuration of Python support
  perf tools: Fix perf version generation
  perf stat: Fix per-socket output bug for uncore events
  perf symbols: Fix vdso list searching
  perf evsel: Fix missing increment in sample parsing
  perf tools: Update symbol_conf.nr_events when processing attribute events
  perf tools: Fix new_term() missing free on error path
  perf tools: Fix parse_events_terms() segfault on error path
  perf evsel: Fix count parameter to read call in event_format__new
  perf tools: fix a typo of a Power7 event name
  perf tools: Fix -x/--exclude-other option for report command
  perf evlist: Enhance perf_evlist__start_workload()
  perf record: Remove -f/--force option
  perf record: Remove -A/--append option
  ...
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Pull perf fixes from Thomas Gleixner:
 - fix for do_div() abuse on x86
 - locking fix in perf core
 - a pile of (build) fixes and cleanups in perf tools

* 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (27 commits)
  perf/x86: Fix incorrect use of do_div() in NMI warning
  perf: Fix perf_lock_task_context() vs RCU
  perf: Remove WARN_ON_ONCE() check in __perf_event_enable() for valid scenario
  perf: Clone child context from parent context pmu
  perf script: Fix broken include in Context.xs
  perf tools: Fix -ldw/-lelf link test when static linking
  perf tools: Revert regression in configuration of Python support
  perf tools: Fix perf version generation
  perf stat: Fix per-socket output bug for uncore events
  perf symbols: Fix vdso list searching
  perf evsel: Fix missing increment in sample parsing
  perf tools: Update symbol_conf.nr_events when processing attribute events
  perf tools: Fix new_term() missing free on error path
  perf tools: Fix parse_events_terms() segfault on error path
  perf evsel: Fix count parameter to read call in event_format__new
  perf tools: fix a typo of a Power7 event name
  perf tools: Fix -x/--exclude-other option for report command
  perf evlist: Enhance perf_evlist__start_workload()
  perf record: Remove -f/--force option
  perf record: Remove -A/--append option
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>perf tools: fix a typo of a Power7 event name</title>
<updated>2013-07-08T20:40:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Runzhen Wang</name>
<email>runzhen@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-06-28T08:14:56+00:00</published>
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In the Power7 PMU guide:
https://www.power.org/documentation/commonly-used-metrics-for-performance-analysis/
PM_BRU_MPRED is referred to as PM_BR_MPRED.

It fixed the typo by changing the name of the event in kernel and
documentation accordingly.

This patch changes the ABI, there are some reasons I think it's ok:

- It is relatively new interface, specific to the Power7 platform.

- No tools that we know of actually use this interface at this point
 (none are listed near the interface).

- Users of this interface (eg oprofile users migrating to perf)
  would be more used to the "PM_BR_MPRED" rather than "PM_BRU_MPRED".

- These are in the ABI/testing at this point rather than ABI/stable,
  so hoping we have some wiggle room.

Signed-off-by: Runzhen Wang &lt;runzhen@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;michael@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: icycoder@gmail.com
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;michael@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Runzhen Wang &lt;runzhew@clemson.edu&gt;
Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu &lt;sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Xiao Guangrong &lt;xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1372407297-6996-2-git-send-email-runzhen@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
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In the Power7 PMU guide:
https://www.power.org/documentation/commonly-used-metrics-for-performance-analysis/
PM_BRU_MPRED is referred to as PM_BR_MPRED.

It fixed the typo by changing the name of the event in kernel and
documentation accordingly.

This patch changes the ABI, there are some reasons I think it's ok:

- It is relatively new interface, specific to the Power7 platform.

- No tools that we know of actually use this interface at this point
 (none are listed near the interface).

- Users of this interface (eg oprofile users migrating to perf)
  would be more used to the "PM_BR_MPRED" rather than "PM_BRU_MPRED".

- These are in the ABI/testing at this point rather than ABI/stable,
  so hoping we have some wiggle room.

Signed-off-by: Runzhen Wang &lt;runzhen@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;michael@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: icycoder@gmail.com
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;michael@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Runzhen Wang &lt;runzhew@clemson.edu&gt;
Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu &lt;sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Xiao Guangrong &lt;xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1372407297-6996-2-git-send-email-runzhen@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc</title>
<updated>2013-07-04T17:29:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-07-04T17:29:23+00:00</published>
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Pull powerpc updates from Ben Herrenschmidt:
 "This is the powerpc changes for the 3.11 merge window.  In addition to
  the usual bug fixes and small updates, the main highlights are:

   - Support for transparent huge pages by Aneesh Kumar for 64-bit
     server processors.  This allows the use of 16M pages as transparent
     huge pages on kernels compiled with a 64K base page size.

   - Base VFIO support for KVM on power by Alexey Kardashevskiy

   - Wiring up of our nvram to the pstore infrastructure, including
     putting compressed oopses in there by Aruna Balakrishnaiah

   - Move, rework and improve our "EEH" (basically PCI error handling
     and recovery) infrastructure.  It is no longer specific to pseries
     but is now usable by the new "powernv" platform as well (no
     hypervisor) by Gavin Shan.

   - I fixed some bugs in our math-emu instruction decoding and made it
     usable to emulate some optional FP instructions on processors with
     hard FP that lack them (such as fsqrt on Freescale embedded
     processors).

   - Support for Power8 "Event Based Branch" facility by Michael
     Ellerman.  This facility allows what is basically "userspace
     interrupts" for performance monitor events.

   - A bunch of Transactional Memory vs.  Signals bug fixes and HW
     breakpoint/watchpoint fixes by Michael Neuling.

  And more ...  I appologize in advance if I've failed to highlight
  something that somebody deemed worth it."

* 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc: (156 commits)
  pstore: Add hsize argument in write_buf call of pstore_ftrace_call
  powerpc/fsl: add MPIC timer wakeup support
  powerpc/mpic: create mpic subsystem object
  powerpc/mpic: add global timer support
  powerpc/mpic: add irq_set_wake support
  powerpc/85xx: enable coreint for all the 64bit boards
  powerpc/8xx: Erroneous double irq_eoi() on CPM IRQ in MPC8xx
  powerpc/fsl: Enable CONFIG_E1000E in mpc85xx_smp_defconfig
  powerpc/mpic: Add get_version API both for internal and external use
  powerpc: Handle both new style and old style reserve maps
  powerpc/hw_brk: Fix off by one error when validating DAWR region end
  powerpc/pseries: Support compression of oops text via pstore
  powerpc/pseries: Re-organise the oops compression code
  pstore: Pass header size in the pstore write callback
  powerpc/powernv: Fix iommu initialization again
  powerpc/pseries: Inform the hypervisor we are using EBB regs
  powerpc/perf: Add power8 EBB support
  powerpc/perf: Core EBB support for 64-bit book3s
  powerpc/perf: Drop MMCRA from thread_struct
  powerpc/perf: Don't enable if we have zero events
  ...
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Pull powerpc updates from Ben Herrenschmidt:
 "This is the powerpc changes for the 3.11 merge window.  In addition to
  the usual bug fixes and small updates, the main highlights are:

   - Support for transparent huge pages by Aneesh Kumar for 64-bit
     server processors.  This allows the use of 16M pages as transparent
     huge pages on kernels compiled with a 64K base page size.

   - Base VFIO support for KVM on power by Alexey Kardashevskiy

   - Wiring up of our nvram to the pstore infrastructure, including
     putting compressed oopses in there by Aruna Balakrishnaiah

   - Move, rework and improve our "EEH" (basically PCI error handling
     and recovery) infrastructure.  It is no longer specific to pseries
     but is now usable by the new "powernv" platform as well (no
     hypervisor) by Gavin Shan.

   - I fixed some bugs in our math-emu instruction decoding and made it
     usable to emulate some optional FP instructions on processors with
     hard FP that lack them (such as fsqrt on Freescale embedded
     processors).

   - Support for Power8 "Event Based Branch" facility by Michael
     Ellerman.  This facility allows what is basically "userspace
     interrupts" for performance monitor events.

   - A bunch of Transactional Memory vs.  Signals bug fixes and HW
     breakpoint/watchpoint fixes by Michael Neuling.

  And more ...  I appologize in advance if I've failed to highlight
  something that somebody deemed worth it."

* 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc: (156 commits)
  pstore: Add hsize argument in write_buf call of pstore_ftrace_call
  powerpc/fsl: add MPIC timer wakeup support
  powerpc/mpic: create mpic subsystem object
  powerpc/mpic: add global timer support
  powerpc/mpic: add irq_set_wake support
  powerpc/85xx: enable coreint for all the 64bit boards
  powerpc/8xx: Erroneous double irq_eoi() on CPM IRQ in MPC8xx
  powerpc/fsl: Enable CONFIG_E1000E in mpc85xx_smp_defconfig
  powerpc/mpic: Add get_version API both for internal and external use
  powerpc: Handle both new style and old style reserve maps
  powerpc/hw_brk: Fix off by one error when validating DAWR region end
  powerpc/pseries: Support compression of oops text via pstore
  powerpc/pseries: Re-organise the oops compression code
  pstore: Pass header size in the pstore write callback
  powerpc/powernv: Fix iommu initialization again
  powerpc/pseries: Inform the hypervisor we are using EBB regs
  powerpc/perf: Add power8 EBB support
  powerpc/perf: Core EBB support for 64-bit book3s
  powerpc/perf: Drop MMCRA from thread_struct
  powerpc/perf: Don't enable if we have zero events
  ...
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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>2013-07-02T23:15:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-07-02T23:15:23+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=f0bb4c0ab064a8aeeffbda1cee380151a594eaab'/>
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Pull perf updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "Kernel improvements:

   - watchdog driver improvements by Li Zefan
   - Power7 CPI stack events related improvements by Sukadev Bhattiprolu
   - event multiplexing via hrtimers and other improvements by Stephane
     Eranian
   - kernel stack use optimization by Andrew Hunter
   - AMD IOMMU uncore PMU support by Suravee Suthikulpanit
   - NMI handling rate-limits by Dave Hansen
   - various hw_breakpoint fixes by Oleg Nesterov
   - hw_breakpoint overflow period sampling and related signal handling
     fixes by Jiri Olsa
   - Intel Haswell PMU support by Andi Kleen

  Tooling improvements:

   - Reset SIGTERM handler in workload child process, fix from David
     Ahern.
   - Makefile reorganization, prep work for Kconfig patches, from Jiri
     Olsa.
   - Add automated make test suite, from Jiri Olsa.
   - Add --percent-limit option to 'top' and 'report', from Namhyung
     Kim.
   - Sorting improvements, from Namhyung Kim.
   - Expand definition of sysfs format attribute, from Michael Ellerman.

  Tooling fixes:

   - 'perf tests' fixes from Jiri Olsa.
   - Make Power7 CPI stack events available in sysfs, from Sukadev
     Bhattiprolu.
   - Handle death by SIGTERM in 'perf record', fix from David Ahern.
   - Fix printing of perf_event_paranoid message, from David Ahern.
   - Handle realloc failures in 'perf kvm', from David Ahern.
   - Fix divide by 0 in variance, from David Ahern.
   - Save parent pid in thread struct, from David Ahern.
   - Handle JITed code in shared memory, from Andi Kleen.
   - Fixes for 'perf diff', from Jiri Olsa.
   - Remove some unused struct members, from Jiri Olsa.
   - Add missing liblk.a dependency for python/perf.so, fix from Jiri
     Olsa.
   - Respect CROSS_COMPILE in liblk.a, from Rabin Vincent.
   - No need to do locking when adding hists in perf report, only 'top'
     needs that, from Namhyung Kim.
   - Fix alignment of symbol column in in the hists browser (top,
     report) when -v is given, from NAmhyung Kim.
   - Fix 'perf top' -E option behavior, from Namhyung Kim.
   - Fix bug in isupper() and islower(), from Sukadev Bhattiprolu.
   - Fix compile errors in bp_signal 'perf test', from Sukadev
     Bhattiprolu.

  ... and more things"

* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (102 commits)
  perf/x86: Disable PEBS-LL in intel_pmu_pebs_disable()
  perf/x86: Fix shared register mutual exclusion enforcement
  perf/x86/intel: Support full width counting
  x86: Add NMI duration tracepoints
  perf: Drop sample rate when sampling is too slow
  x86: Warn when NMI handlers take large amounts of time
  hw_breakpoint: Introduce "struct bp_cpuinfo"
  hw_breakpoint: Simplify *register_wide_hw_breakpoint()
  hw_breakpoint: Introduce cpumask_of_bp()
  hw_breakpoint: Simplify the "weight" usage in toggle_bp_slot() paths
  hw_breakpoint: Simplify list/idx mess in toggle_bp_slot() paths
  perf/x86/intel: Add mem-loads/stores support for Haswell
  perf/x86/intel: Support Haswell/v4 LBR format
  perf/x86/intel: Move NMI clearing to end of PMI handler
  perf/x86/intel: Add Haswell PEBS support
  perf/x86/intel: Add simple Haswell PMU support
  perf/x86/intel: Add Haswell PEBS record support
  perf/x86/intel: Fix sparse warning
  perf/x86/amd: AMD IOMMU Performance Counter PERF uncore PMU implementation
  perf/x86/amd: Add IOMMU Performance Counter resource management
  ...
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Pull perf updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "Kernel improvements:

   - watchdog driver improvements by Li Zefan
   - Power7 CPI stack events related improvements by Sukadev Bhattiprolu
   - event multiplexing via hrtimers and other improvements by Stephane
     Eranian
   - kernel stack use optimization by Andrew Hunter
   - AMD IOMMU uncore PMU support by Suravee Suthikulpanit
   - NMI handling rate-limits by Dave Hansen
   - various hw_breakpoint fixes by Oleg Nesterov
   - hw_breakpoint overflow period sampling and related signal handling
     fixes by Jiri Olsa
   - Intel Haswell PMU support by Andi Kleen

  Tooling improvements:

   - Reset SIGTERM handler in workload child process, fix from David
     Ahern.
   - Makefile reorganization, prep work for Kconfig patches, from Jiri
     Olsa.
   - Add automated make test suite, from Jiri Olsa.
   - Add --percent-limit option to 'top' and 'report', from Namhyung
     Kim.
   - Sorting improvements, from Namhyung Kim.
   - Expand definition of sysfs format attribute, from Michael Ellerman.

  Tooling fixes:

   - 'perf tests' fixes from Jiri Olsa.
   - Make Power7 CPI stack events available in sysfs, from Sukadev
     Bhattiprolu.
   - Handle death by SIGTERM in 'perf record', fix from David Ahern.
   - Fix printing of perf_event_paranoid message, from David Ahern.
   - Handle realloc failures in 'perf kvm', from David Ahern.
   - Fix divide by 0 in variance, from David Ahern.
   - Save parent pid in thread struct, from David Ahern.
   - Handle JITed code in shared memory, from Andi Kleen.
   - Fixes for 'perf diff', from Jiri Olsa.
   - Remove some unused struct members, from Jiri Olsa.
   - Add missing liblk.a dependency for python/perf.so, fix from Jiri
     Olsa.
   - Respect CROSS_COMPILE in liblk.a, from Rabin Vincent.
   - No need to do locking when adding hists in perf report, only 'top'
     needs that, from Namhyung Kim.
   - Fix alignment of symbol column in in the hists browser (top,
     report) when -v is given, from NAmhyung Kim.
   - Fix 'perf top' -E option behavior, from Namhyung Kim.
   - Fix bug in isupper() and islower(), from Sukadev Bhattiprolu.
   - Fix compile errors in bp_signal 'perf test', from Sukadev
     Bhattiprolu.

  ... and more things"

* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (102 commits)
  perf/x86: Disable PEBS-LL in intel_pmu_pebs_disable()
  perf/x86: Fix shared register mutual exclusion enforcement
  perf/x86/intel: Support full width counting
  x86: Add NMI duration tracepoints
  perf: Drop sample rate when sampling is too slow
  x86: Warn when NMI handlers take large amounts of time
  hw_breakpoint: Introduce "struct bp_cpuinfo"
  hw_breakpoint: Simplify *register_wide_hw_breakpoint()
  hw_breakpoint: Introduce cpumask_of_bp()
  hw_breakpoint: Simplify the "weight" usage in toggle_bp_slot() paths
  hw_breakpoint: Simplify list/idx mess in toggle_bp_slot() paths
  perf/x86/intel: Add mem-loads/stores support for Haswell
  perf/x86/intel: Support Haswell/v4 LBR format
  perf/x86/intel: Move NMI clearing to end of PMI handler
  perf/x86/intel: Add Haswell PEBS support
  perf/x86/intel: Add simple Haswell PMU support
  perf/x86/intel: Add Haswell PEBS record support
  perf/x86/intel: Fix sparse warning
  perf/x86/amd: AMD IOMMU Performance Counter PERF uncore PMU implementation
  perf/x86/amd: Add IOMMU Performance Counter resource management
  ...
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<entry>
<title>powerpc/perf: Add power8 EBB support</title>
<updated>2013-07-01T01:50:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Ellerman</name>
<email>michael@ellerman.id.au</email>
</author>
<published>2013-06-28T08:15:17+00:00</published>
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Add logic to the power8 PMU code to support EBB. Future processors would
also be expected to implement similar constraints. At that time we could
possibly factor these out into common code.

Finally mark the power8 PMU as supporting EBB, which is the actual
enable switch which allows EBBs to be configured.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;michael@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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Add logic to the power8 PMU code to support EBB. Future processors would
also be expected to implement similar constraints. At that time we could
possibly factor these out into common code.

Finally mark the power8 PMU as supporting EBB, which is the actual
enable switch which allows EBBs to be configured.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;michael@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/perf: Core EBB support for 64-bit book3s</title>
<updated>2013-07-01T01:50:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Ellerman</name>
<email>michael@ellerman.id.au</email>
</author>
<published>2013-06-28T08:15:16+00:00</published>
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Add support for EBB (Event Based Branches) on 64-bit book3s. See the
included documentation for more details.

EBBs are a feature which allows the hardware to branch directly to a
specified user space address when a PMU event overflows. This can be
used by programs for self-monitoring with no kernel involvement in the
inner loop.

Most of the logic is in the generic book3s code, primarily to avoid a
proliferation of PMU callbacks.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;michael@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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Add support for EBB (Event Based Branches) on 64-bit book3s. See the
included documentation for more details.

EBBs are a feature which allows the hardware to branch directly to a
specified user space address when a PMU event overflows. This can be
used by programs for self-monitoring with no kernel involvement in the
inner loop.

Most of the logic is in the generic book3s code, primarily to avoid a
proliferation of PMU callbacks.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;michael@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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</entry>
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