3f59dbcace
Pull perf updates from Ingo Molnar:
"The main kernel side changes in this cycle were:
- Various Intel-PT updates and optimizations (Alexander Shishkin)
- Prohibit kprobes on Xen/KVM emulate prefixes (Masami Hiramatsu)
- Add support for LSM and SELinux checks to control access to the
perf syscall (Joel Fernandes)
- Misc other changes, optimizations, fixes and cleanups - see the
shortlog for details.
There were numerous tooling changes as well - 254 non-merge commits.
Here are the main changes - too many to list in detail:
- Enhancements to core tooling infrastructure, perf.data, libperf,
libtraceevent, event parsing, vendor events, Intel PT, callchains,
BPF support and instruction decoding.
- There were updates to the following tools:
perf annotate
perf diff
perf inject
perf kvm
perf list
perf maps
perf parse
perf probe
perf record
perf report
perf script
perf stat
perf test
perf trace
- And a lot of other changes: please see the shortlog and Git log for
more details"
* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (279 commits)
perf parse: Fix potential memory leak when handling tracepoint errors
perf probe: Fix spelling mistake "addrees" -> "address"
libtraceevent: Fix memory leakage in copy_filter_type
libtraceevent: Fix header installation
perf intel-bts: Does not support AUX area sampling
perf intel-pt: Add support for decoding AUX area samples
perf intel-pt: Add support for recording AUX area samples
perf pmu: When using default config, record which bits of config were changed by the user
perf auxtrace: Add support for queuing AUX area samples
perf session: Add facility to peek at all events
perf auxtrace: Add support for dumping AUX area samples
perf inject: Cut AUX area samples
perf record: Add aux-sample-size config term
perf record: Add support for AUX area sampling
perf auxtrace: Add support for AUX area sample recording
perf auxtrace: Move perf_evsel__find_pmu()
perf record: Add a function to test for kernel support for AUX area sampling
perf tools: Add kernel AUX area sampling definitions
perf/core: Make the mlock accounting simple again
perf report: Jump to symbol source view from total cycles view
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