772c1d06bd
Pull perf updates from Ingo Molnar:
"Kernel side changes:
- Improved kbprobes robustness
- Intel PEBS support for PT hardware tracing
- Other Intel PT improvements: high order pages memory footprint
reduction and various related cleanups
- Misc cleanups
The perf tooling side has been very busy in this cycle, with over 300
commits. This is an incomplete high-level summary of the many
improvements done by over 30 developers:
- Lots of updates to the following tools:
'perf c2c'
'perf config'
'perf record'
'perf report'
'perf script'
'perf test'
'perf top'
'perf trace'
- Updates to libperf and libtraceevent, and a consolidation of the
proliferation of x86 instruction decoder libraries.
- Vendor event updates for Intel and PowerPC CPUs,
- Updates to hardware tracing tooling for ARM and Intel CPUs,
- ... and lots of other changes and cleanups - see the shortlog and
Git log for details"
* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (322 commits)
kprobes: Prohibit probing on BUG() and WARN() address
perf/x86: Make more stuff static
x86, perf: Fix the dependency of the x86 insn decoder selftest
objtool: Ignore intentional differences for the x86 insn decoder
objtool: Update sync-check.sh from perf's check-headers.sh
perf build: Ignore intentional differences for the x86 insn decoder
perf intel-pt: Use shared x86 insn decoder
perf intel-pt: Remove inat.c from build dependency list
perf: Update .gitignore file
objtool: Move x86 insn decoder to a common location
perf metricgroup: Support multiple events for metricgroup
perf metricgroup: Scale the metric result
perf pmu: Change convert_scale from static to global
perf symbols: Move mem_info and branch_info out of symbol.h
perf auxtrace: Uninline functions that touch perf_session
perf tools: Remove needless evlist.h include directives
perf tools: Remove needless evlist.h include directives
perf tools: Remove needless thread_map.h include directives
perf tools: Remove needless thread.h include directives
perf tools: Remove needless map.h include directives
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