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Pull perf updates from Ingo Molnar:
"Most of the changes are for tooling, the main changes in this cycle were:
- Improve Intel-PT hardware tracing support, both on the kernel and
on the tooling side: PTWRITE instruction support, power events for
C-state tracing, etc. (Adrian Hunter)
- Add support to measure SMI cost to the x86 architecture, with
tooling support in 'perf stat' (Kan Liang)
- Support function filtering in 'perf ftrace', plus related
improvements (Namhyung Kim)
- Allow adding and removing fields to the default 'perf script'
columns, using + or - as field prefixes to do so (Andi Kleen)
- Allow resolving the DSO name with 'perf script -F brstack{sym,off},dso'
(Mark Santaniello)
- Add perf tooling unwind support for PowerPC (Paolo Bonzini)
- ... and various other improvements as well"
* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (84 commits)
perf auxtrace: Add CPU filter support
perf intel-pt: Do not use TSC packets for calculating CPU cycles to TSC
perf intel-pt: Update documentation to include new ptwrite and power events
perf intel-pt: Add example script for power events and PTWRITE
perf intel-pt: Synthesize new power and "ptwrite" events
perf intel-pt: Move code in intel_pt_synth_events() to simplify attr setting
perf intel-pt: Factor out intel_pt_set_event_name()
perf intel-pt: Tidy messages into called function intel_pt_synth_event()
perf intel-pt: Tidy Intel PT evsel lookup into separate function
perf intel-pt: Join needlessly wrapped lines
perf intel-pt: Remove unused instructions_sample_period
perf intel-pt: Factor out common code synthesizing event samples
perf script: Add synthesized Intel PT power and ptwrite events
perf/x86/intel: Constify the 'lbr_desc[]' array and make a function static
perf script: Add 'synth' field for synthesized event payloads
perf auxtrace: Add itrace option to output power events
perf auxtrace: Add itrace option to output ptwrite events
tools include: Add byte-swapping macros to kernel.h
perf script: Add 'synth' event type for synthesized events
x86/insn: perf tools: Add new ptwrite instruction
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