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Many PMU drivers do not have the capability to exclude counting events that occur in specific contexts such as idle, kernel, guest, etc. These drivers indicate this by returning an error in their event_init upon testing the events attribute flags. This approach is error prone and often inconsistent. Let's instead allow PMU drivers to advertise their inability to exclude based on context via a new capability: PERF_PMU_CAP_NO_EXCLUDE. This allows the perf core to reject requests for exclusion events where there is no support in the PMU. Signed-off-by: Andrew Murray <andrew.murray@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> Cc: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk> Cc: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de> Cc: Shawn Guo <shawnguo@kernel.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org Cc: robin.murphy@arm.com Cc: suzuki.poulose@arm.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1547128414-50693-4-git-send-email-andrew.murray@arm.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.