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<title>Merge branch 'acpi-fixes'</title>
<updated>2013-06-07T10:35:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rafael J. Wysocki</name>
<email>rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-06-07T10:35:23+00:00</published>
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* acpi-fixes:
  ACPI / PM: Do not execute _PS0 for devices without _PSC during initialization
  ACPI / scan: do not match drivers against objects having scan handlers
  ACPI / APEI: fix error return code in ghes_probe()
  ACPI / video: ignore BIOS initial backlight value for HP Pavilion g6
  ACPI / video: ignore BIOS initial backlight value for HP m4
  x86 / platform / hp_wmi: Fix bluetooth_rfkill misuse in hp_wmi_rfkill_setup()
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* acpi-fixes:
  ACPI / PM: Do not execute _PS0 for devices without _PSC during initialization
  ACPI / scan: do not match drivers against objects having scan handlers
  ACPI / APEI: fix error return code in ghes_probe()
  ACPI / video: ignore BIOS initial backlight value for HP Pavilion g6
  ACPI / video: ignore BIOS initial backlight value for HP m4
  x86 / platform / hp_wmi: Fix bluetooth_rfkill misuse in hp_wmi_rfkill_setup()
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<entry>
<title>ACPI / APEI: fix error return code in ghes_probe()</title>
<updated>2013-06-05T11:11:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Wei Yongjun</name>
<email>yongjun_wei@trendmicro.com.cn</email>
</author>
<published>2013-06-03T02:08:39+00:00</published>
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Fix to return a negative error code in the acpi_gsi_to_irq() and
request_irq() error handling case instead of 0, as done elsewhere
in this function.

Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun &lt;yongjun_wei@trendmicro.com.cn&gt;
Reviewed-by: Huang Ying &lt;ying.huang@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
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Fix to return a negative error code in the acpi_gsi_to_irq() and
request_irq() error handling case instead of 0, as done elsewhere
in this function.

Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun &lt;yongjun_wei@trendmicro.com.cn&gt;
Reviewed-by: Huang Ying &lt;ying.huang@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>aerdrv: Move cper_print_aer() call out of interrupt context</title>
<updated>2013-05-30T17:51:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Lance Ortiz</name>
<email>lance.ortiz@hp.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-05-30T14:25:12+00:00</published>
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The following warning was seen on 3.9 when a corrected PCIe error was being
handled by the AER subsystem.

WARNING: at .../drivers/pci/search.c:214 pci_get_dev_by_id+0x8a/0x90()

This occurred because a call to pci_get_domain_bus_and_slot() was added to
cper_print_pcie() to setup for the call to cper_print_aer().  The warning
showed up because cper_print_pcie() is called in an interrupt context and
pci_get* functions are not supposed to be called in that context.

The solution is to move the cper_print_aer() call out of the interrupt
context and into aer_recover_work_func() to avoid any warnings when calling
pci_get* functions.

Signed-off-by: Lance Ortiz &lt;lance.ortiz@hp.com&gt;
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
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The following warning was seen on 3.9 when a corrected PCIe error was being
handled by the AER subsystem.

WARNING: at .../drivers/pci/search.c:214 pci_get_dev_by_id+0x8a/0x90()

This occurred because a call to pci_get_domain_bus_and_slot() was added to
cper_print_pcie() to setup for the call to cper_print_aer().  The warning
showed up because cper_print_pcie() is called in an interrupt context and
pci_get* functions are not supposed to be called in that context.

The solution is to move the cper_print_aer() call out of the interrupt
context and into aer_recover_work_func() to avoid any warnings when calling
pci_get* functions.

Signed-off-by: Lance Ortiz &lt;lance.ortiz@hp.com&gt;
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ACPI / APEI: fix error status check condition for CPER</title>
<updated>2013-03-26T23:05:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Chen Gong</name>
<email>gong.chen@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-03-19T06:48:07+00:00</published>
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In Table 18-289, ACPI5.0 SPEC, the error data length in CPER
Generic Error Data Entry can be 0, which means this generic
error data entry can have only one header. So fix the check
conditon for it.

Signed-off-by: Chen Gong &lt;gong.chen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Huang Ying &lt;ying.huang@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
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In Table 18-289, ACPI5.0 SPEC, the error data length in CPER
Generic Error Data Entry can be 0, which means this generic
error data entry can have only one header. So fix the check
conditon for it.

Signed-off-by: Chen Gong &lt;gong.chen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Huang Ying &lt;ying.huang@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'linux_next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-edac</title>
<updated>2013-03-01T04:42:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-03-01T04:42:33+00:00</published>
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Pull EDAC fixes and ghes-edac from Mauro Carvalho Chehab:
 "For:

   - Some fixes at edac drivers (i7core_edac, sb_edac, i3200_edac);
   - error injection support for i5100, when EDAC debug is enabled;
   - fix edac when it is loaded builtin (early init for the subsystem);
   - a "Firmware First" EDAC driver, allowing ghes to report errors via
     EDAC (ghes-edac).

  With regards to ghes-edac, this fixes a longstanding BZ at Red Hat
  that happens with Nehalem and Sandy Bridge CPUs: when both GHES and
  i7core_edac or sb_edac are running, the error reports are
  unpredictable, as both BIOS and OS race to access the registers.  With
  ghes-edac, the EDAC core will refuse to register any other concurrent
  memory error driver.

  This patchset moves the ghes struct definitions to a separate header
  file (include/acpi/ghes.h) and adds 3 hooks at apei/ghes.c to
  register/unregister and to report errors via ghes-edac.  Those changes
  were acked by ghes driver maintainer (Huang)."

* 'linux_next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-edac: (30 commits)
  i5100_edac: convert to use simple_open()
  ghes_edac: fix to use list_for_each_entry_safe() when delete list items
  ghes_edac: Fix RAS tracing
  ghes_edac: Make it compliant with UEFI spec 2.3.1
  ghes_edac: Improve driver's printk messages
  ghes_edac: Don't credit the same memory dimm twice
  ghes_edac: do a better job of filling EDAC DIMM info
  ghes_edac: add support for reporting errors via EDAC
  ghes_edac: Register at EDAC core the BIOS report
  ghes: add the needed hooks for EDAC error report
  ghes: move structures/enum to a header file
  edac: add support for error type "Info"
  edac: add support for raw error reports
  edac: reduce stack pressure by using a pre-allocated buffer
  edac: lock module owner to avoid error report conflicts
  edac: remove proc_name from mci structure
  edac: add a new memory layer type
  edac: initialize the core earlier
  edac: better report error conditions in debug mode
  i5100_edac: Remove two checkpatch warnings
  ...
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Pull EDAC fixes and ghes-edac from Mauro Carvalho Chehab:
 "For:

   - Some fixes at edac drivers (i7core_edac, sb_edac, i3200_edac);
   - error injection support for i5100, when EDAC debug is enabled;
   - fix edac when it is loaded builtin (early init for the subsystem);
   - a "Firmware First" EDAC driver, allowing ghes to report errors via
     EDAC (ghes-edac).

  With regards to ghes-edac, this fixes a longstanding BZ at Red Hat
  that happens with Nehalem and Sandy Bridge CPUs: when both GHES and
  i7core_edac or sb_edac are running, the error reports are
  unpredictable, as both BIOS and OS race to access the registers.  With
  ghes-edac, the EDAC core will refuse to register any other concurrent
  memory error driver.

  This patchset moves the ghes struct definitions to a separate header
  file (include/acpi/ghes.h) and adds 3 hooks at apei/ghes.c to
  register/unregister and to report errors via ghes-edac.  Those changes
  were acked by ghes driver maintainer (Huang)."

* 'linux_next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-edac: (30 commits)
  i5100_edac: convert to use simple_open()
  ghes_edac: fix to use list_for_each_entry_safe() when delete list items
  ghes_edac: Fix RAS tracing
  ghes_edac: Make it compliant with UEFI spec 2.3.1
  ghes_edac: Improve driver's printk messages
  ghes_edac: Don't credit the same memory dimm twice
  ghes_edac: do a better job of filling EDAC DIMM info
  ghes_edac: add support for reporting errors via EDAC
  ghes_edac: Register at EDAC core the BIOS report
  ghes: add the needed hooks for EDAC error report
  ghes: move structures/enum to a header file
  edac: add support for error type "Info"
  edac: add support for raw error reports
  edac: reduce stack pressure by using a pre-allocated buffer
  edac: lock module owner to avoid error report conflicts
  edac: remove proc_name from mci structure
  edac: add a new memory layer type
  edac: initialize the core earlier
  edac: better report error conditions in debug mode
  i5100_edac: Remove two checkpatch warnings
  ...
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<entry>
<title>ghes: add the needed hooks for EDAC error report</title>
<updated>2013-02-25T22:41:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mauro Carvalho Chehab</name>
<email>mchehab@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-02-15T09:10:39+00:00</published>
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In order to allow reporting errors via EDAC, add hooks for:

1) register an EDAC driver;
2) unregister an EDAC driver;
3) report errors via EDAC.

As the EDAC driver will need to access the ghes structure, adds it
as one of the parameters for ghes_do_proc.

Acked-by: Huang Ying &lt;ying.huang@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab &lt;mchehab@redhat.com&gt;
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In order to allow reporting errors via EDAC, add hooks for:

1) register an EDAC driver;
2) unregister an EDAC driver;
3) report errors via EDAC.

As the EDAC driver will need to access the ghes structure, adds it
as one of the parameters for ghes_do_proc.

Acked-by: Huang Ying &lt;ying.huang@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab &lt;mchehab@redhat.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'acpi-cleanup' into fixes</title>
<updated>2013-02-22T23:42:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rafael J. Wysocki</name>
<email>rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-02-22T23:42:01+00:00</published>
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* acpi-cleanup:
  ACPI / APEI: Fix crash in apei_hest_parse() for acpi=off
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* acpi-cleanup:
  ACPI / APEI: Fix crash in apei_hest_parse() for acpi=off
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<entry>
<title>ACPI / APEI: Fix crash in apei_hest_parse() for acpi=off</title>
<updated>2013-02-22T23:27:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rafael J. Wysocki</name>
<email>rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-02-22T23:14:57+00:00</published>
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After commit 92ef2a2 (ACPI: Change the ordering of PCI root bridge
driver registrarion), acpi_hest_init() is never called for acpi=off
(acpi_disabled), so hest_disable is not set, but hest_tab is NULL,
which causes apei_hest_parse() to crash when it is called from
aer_acpi_firmware_first().

Fix that by making apei_hest_parse() check if hest_tab is not NULL
in addition to checking hest_disable.  Also remove the now useless
acpi_disabled check from apei_hest_parse().

Reported-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Tested-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
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After commit 92ef2a2 (ACPI: Change the ordering of PCI root bridge
driver registrarion), acpi_hest_init() is never called for acpi=off
(acpi_disabled), so hest_disable is not set, but hest_tab is NULL,
which causes apei_hest_parse() to crash when it is called from
aer_acpi_firmware_first().

Fix that by making apei_hest_parse() check if hest_tab is not NULL
in addition to checking hest_disable.  Also remove the now useless
acpi_disabled check from apei_hest_parse().

Reported-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Tested-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ghes: move structures/enum to a header file</title>
<updated>2013-02-21T17:16:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mauro Carvalho Chehab</name>
<email>mchehab@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-02-15T08:41:22+00:00</published>
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As a ghes_edac driver will need to access ghes structures, in order
to properly handle the errors, move those structures to a separate
header file. No functional changes.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab &lt;mchehab@redhat.com&gt;
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As a ghes_edac driver will need to access ghes structures, in order
to properly handle the errors, move those structures to a separate
header file. No functional changes.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab &lt;mchehab@redhat.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2013-02-20T01:49:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-02-20T01:49:41+00:00</published>
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Pull perf changes from Ingo Molnar:
 "There are lots of improvements, the biggest changes are:

  Main kernel side changes:

   - Improve uprobes performance by adding 'pre-filtering' support, by
     Oleg Nesterov.

   - Make some POWER7 events available in sysfs, equivalent to what was
     done on x86, from Sukadev Bhattiprolu.

   - tracing updates by Steve Rostedt - mostly misc fixes and smaller
     improvements.

   - Use perf/event tracing to report PCI Express advanced errors, by
     Tony Luck.

   - Enable northbridge performance counters on AMD family 15h, by Jacob
     Shin.

   - This tracing commit:

        tracing: Remove the extra 4 bytes of padding in events

     changes the ABI.  All involved parties (PowerTop in particular)
     seem to agree that it's safe to do now with the introduction of
     libtraceevent, but the devil is in the details ...

  Main tooling side changes:

   - Add 'event group view', from Namyung Kim:

     To use it, 'perf record' should group events when recording.  And
     then perf report parses the saved group relation from file header
     and prints them together if --group option is provided.  You can
     use the 'perf evlist' command to see event group information:

        $ perf record -e '{ref-cycles,cycles}' noploop 1
        [ perf record: Woken up 2 times to write data ]
        [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.385 MB perf.data (~16807 samples) ]

        $ perf evlist --group
        {ref-cycles,cycles}

     With this example, default perf report will show you each event
     separately.

     You can use --group option to enable event group view:

        $ perf report --group
        ...
        # group: {ref-cycles,cycles}
        # ========
        # Samples: 7K of event 'anon group { ref-cycles, cycles }'
        # Event count (approx.): 6876107743
        #
        #         Overhead  Command      Shared Object                      Symbol
        # ................  .......  .................  ..........................
            99.84%  99.76%  noploop  noploop            [.] main
             0.07%   0.00%  noploop  ld-2.15.so         [.] strcmp
             0.03%   0.00%  noploop  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] timerqueue_del
             0.03%   0.03%  noploop  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] sched_clock_cpu
             0.02%   0.00%  noploop  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] account_user_time
             0.01%   0.00%  noploop  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] __alloc_pages_nodemask
             0.00%   0.00%  noploop  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] native_write_msr_safe
             0.00%   0.11%  noploop  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] _raw_spin_lock
             0.00%   0.06%  noploop  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] find_get_page
             0.00%   0.02%  noploop  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] rcu_check_callbacks
             0.00%   0.02%  noploop  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] __current_kernel_time

     As you can see the Overhead column now contains both of ref-cycles
     and cycles and header line shows group information also - 'anon
     group { ref-cycles, cycles }'.  The output is sorted by period of
     group leader first.

   - Initial GTK+ annotate browser, from Namhyung Kim.

   - Add option for runtime switching perf data file in perf report,
     just press 's' and a menu with the valid files found in the current
     directory will be presented, from Feng Tang.

   - Add support to display whole group data for raw columns, from Jiri
     Olsa.

   - Add per processor socket count aggregation in perf stat, from
     Stephane Eranian.

   - Add interval printing in 'perf stat', from Stephane Eranian.

   - 'perf test' improvements

   - Add support for wildcards in tracepoint system name, from Jiri
     Olsa.

   - Add anonymous huge page recognition, from Joshua Zhu.

   - perf build-id cache now can show DSOs present in a perf.data file
     that are not in the cache, to integrate with build-id servers being
     put in place by organizations such as Fedora.

   - perf top now shares more of the evsel config/creation routines with
     'record', paving the way for further integration like 'top'
     snapshots, etc.

   - perf top now supports DWARF callchains.

   - Fix mmap limitations on 32-bit, fix from David Miller.

   - 'perf bench numa mem' NUMA performance measurement suite

   - ... and lots of fixes, performance improvements, cleanups and other
     improvements I failed to list - see the shortlog and git log for
     details."

* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (270 commits)
  perf/x86/amd: Enable northbridge performance counters on AMD family 15h
  perf/hwbp: Fix cleanup in case of kzalloc failure
  perf tools: Fix build with bison 2.3 and older.
  perf tools: Limit unwind support to x86 archs
  perf annotate: Make it to be able to skip unannotatable symbols
  perf gtk/annotate: Fail early if it can't annotate
  perf gtk/annotate: Show source lines with gray color
  perf gtk/annotate: Support multiple event annotation
  perf ui/gtk: Implement basic GTK2 annotation browser
  perf annotate: Fix warning message on a missing vmlinux
  perf buildid-cache: Add --update option
  uprobes/perf: Avoid uprobe_apply() whenever possible
  uprobes/perf: Teach trace_uprobe/perf code to use UPROBE_HANDLER_REMOVE
  uprobes/perf: Teach trace_uprobe/perf code to pre-filter
  uprobes/perf: Teach trace_uprobe/perf code to track the active perf_event's
  uprobes: Introduce uprobe_apply()
  perf: Introduce hw_perf_event-&gt;tp_target and -&gt;tp_list
  uprobes/perf: Always increment trace_uprobe-&gt;nhit
  uprobes/tracing: Kill uprobe_trace_consumer, embed uprobe_consumer into trace_uprobe
  uprobes/tracing: Introduce is_trace_uprobe_enabled()
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Pull perf changes from Ingo Molnar:
 "There are lots of improvements, the biggest changes are:

  Main kernel side changes:

   - Improve uprobes performance by adding 'pre-filtering' support, by
     Oleg Nesterov.

   - Make some POWER7 events available in sysfs, equivalent to what was
     done on x86, from Sukadev Bhattiprolu.

   - tracing updates by Steve Rostedt - mostly misc fixes and smaller
     improvements.

   - Use perf/event tracing to report PCI Express advanced errors, by
     Tony Luck.

   - Enable northbridge performance counters on AMD family 15h, by Jacob
     Shin.

   - This tracing commit:

        tracing: Remove the extra 4 bytes of padding in events

     changes the ABI.  All involved parties (PowerTop in particular)
     seem to agree that it's safe to do now with the introduction of
     libtraceevent, but the devil is in the details ...

  Main tooling side changes:

   - Add 'event group view', from Namyung Kim:

     To use it, 'perf record' should group events when recording.  And
     then perf report parses the saved group relation from file header
     and prints them together if --group option is provided.  You can
     use the 'perf evlist' command to see event group information:

        $ perf record -e '{ref-cycles,cycles}' noploop 1
        [ perf record: Woken up 2 times to write data ]
        [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.385 MB perf.data (~16807 samples) ]

        $ perf evlist --group
        {ref-cycles,cycles}

     With this example, default perf report will show you each event
     separately.

     You can use --group option to enable event group view:

        $ perf report --group
        ...
        # group: {ref-cycles,cycles}
        # ========
        # Samples: 7K of event 'anon group { ref-cycles, cycles }'
        # Event count (approx.): 6876107743
        #
        #         Overhead  Command      Shared Object                      Symbol
        # ................  .......  .................  ..........................
            99.84%  99.76%  noploop  noploop            [.] main
             0.07%   0.00%  noploop  ld-2.15.so         [.] strcmp
             0.03%   0.00%  noploop  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] timerqueue_del
             0.03%   0.03%  noploop  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] sched_clock_cpu
             0.02%   0.00%  noploop  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] account_user_time
             0.01%   0.00%  noploop  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] __alloc_pages_nodemask
             0.00%   0.00%  noploop  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] native_write_msr_safe
             0.00%   0.11%  noploop  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] _raw_spin_lock
             0.00%   0.06%  noploop  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] find_get_page
             0.00%   0.02%  noploop  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] rcu_check_callbacks
             0.00%   0.02%  noploop  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] __current_kernel_time

     As you can see the Overhead column now contains both of ref-cycles
     and cycles and header line shows group information also - 'anon
     group { ref-cycles, cycles }'.  The output is sorted by period of
     group leader first.

   - Initial GTK+ annotate browser, from Namhyung Kim.

   - Add option for runtime switching perf data file in perf report,
     just press 's' and a menu with the valid files found in the current
     directory will be presented, from Feng Tang.

   - Add support to display whole group data for raw columns, from Jiri
     Olsa.

   - Add per processor socket count aggregation in perf stat, from
     Stephane Eranian.

   - Add interval printing in 'perf stat', from Stephane Eranian.

   - 'perf test' improvements

   - Add support for wildcards in tracepoint system name, from Jiri
     Olsa.

   - Add anonymous huge page recognition, from Joshua Zhu.

   - perf build-id cache now can show DSOs present in a perf.data file
     that are not in the cache, to integrate with build-id servers being
     put in place by organizations such as Fedora.

   - perf top now shares more of the evsel config/creation routines with
     'record', paving the way for further integration like 'top'
     snapshots, etc.

   - perf top now supports DWARF callchains.

   - Fix mmap limitations on 32-bit, fix from David Miller.

   - 'perf bench numa mem' NUMA performance measurement suite

   - ... and lots of fixes, performance improvements, cleanups and other
     improvements I failed to list - see the shortlog and git log for
     details."

* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (270 commits)
  perf/x86/amd: Enable northbridge performance counters on AMD family 15h
  perf/hwbp: Fix cleanup in case of kzalloc failure
  perf tools: Fix build with bison 2.3 and older.
  perf tools: Limit unwind support to x86 archs
  perf annotate: Make it to be able to skip unannotatable symbols
  perf gtk/annotate: Fail early if it can't annotate
  perf gtk/annotate: Show source lines with gray color
  perf gtk/annotate: Support multiple event annotation
  perf ui/gtk: Implement basic GTK2 annotation browser
  perf annotate: Fix warning message on a missing vmlinux
  perf buildid-cache: Add --update option
  uprobes/perf: Avoid uprobe_apply() whenever possible
  uprobes/perf: Teach trace_uprobe/perf code to use UPROBE_HANDLER_REMOVE
  uprobes/perf: Teach trace_uprobe/perf code to pre-filter
  uprobes/perf: Teach trace_uprobe/perf code to track the active perf_event's
  uprobes: Introduce uprobe_apply()
  perf: Introduce hw_perf_event-&gt;tp_target and -&gt;tp_list
  uprobes/perf: Always increment trace_uprobe-&gt;nhit
  uprobes/tracing: Kill uprobe_trace_consumer, embed uprobe_consumer into trace_uprobe
  uprobes/tracing: Introduce is_trace_uprobe_enabled()
  ...
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