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Ingo Molnar 39c2ca4346 perf/core improvements and fixes:
perf top:
 
   Namhyung Kim:
 
   - Decay all events in the evlist, we were decaying just the first event
     in a group.
 
   - Fix linking of histograms in different evsels in a event group with more
     than two events.
 
   With the two fixes above a command line such as:
 
     # perf top -e '{cycles,instructions,cache-misses,cache-references}
 
     Should work as expected, with four columns and with all of them being
     decayed over time, i.e. less weight is given for older samples.
 
 perf record:
 
   Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo:
 
   - Fix collection of build-ids when using setns() to get into namespaces,
     which had been broken with the introduction of the extra thread to
     react to PERF_RECORD_BPF_EVENT, i.e. to collect extra info for BPF
     programs. We need to unshare(CLONE_FS) in that thread so that the
     main one can do the setns(CLONE_NEWNS) when collectingthe build-ids.
     Without that symbol resolution gets more difficult and potentially
     misresolves symbols.
 
 core:
 
   Igor Lubashev:
 
   - Further alignment in permission checking via capabilities to how the
     kernel checks what tooling tries to do.
 
 PowerPC:
 
   Naveen N. Rao:
 
   - Sync powerpc syscall.tbl, so that 'perf trace' gets the definitions
     for recent syscalls.
 
 libperf:
 
   Jiri Olsa:
 
   - Move the rest of the PERF_RECORD_ metadata struct definitions so that
     we can use 'union perf_event'.
 
 libtraceevent:
 
   Steven Rostedt (VMware):
 
   - Do not free tep->cmdlines in add_new_comm() on failure.
 
   - Remove unneeded qsort and uses memmove instead
 
 Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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Merge tag 'perf-core-for-mingo-5.4-20190829' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux into perf/core

Pull perf/core improvements and fixes from Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo:

perf top:

  Namhyung Kim:

  - Decay all events in the evlist, we were decaying just the first event
    in a group.

  - Fix linking of histograms in different evsels in a event group with more
    than two events.

  With the two fixes above a command line such as:

    # perf top -e '{cycles,instructions,cache-misses,cache-references}

    Should work as expected, with four columns and with all of them being
    decayed over time, i.e. less weight is given for older samples.

perf record:

  Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo:

  - Fix collection of build-ids when using setns() to get into namespaces,
    which had been broken with the introduction of the extra thread to
    react to PERF_RECORD_BPF_EVENT, i.e. to collect extra info for BPF
    programs. We need to unshare(CLONE_FS) in that thread so that the
    main one can do the setns(CLONE_NEWNS) when collectingthe build-ids.
    Without that symbol resolution gets more difficult and potentially
    misresolves symbols.

core:

  Igor Lubashev:

  - Further alignment in permission checking via capabilities to how the
    kernel checks what tooling tries to do.

PowerPC:

  Naveen N. Rao:

  - Sync powerpc syscall.tbl, so that 'perf trace' gets the definitions
    for recent syscalls.

libperf:

  Jiri Olsa:

  - Move the rest of the PERF_RECORD_ metadata struct definitions so that
    we can use 'union perf_event'.

libtraceevent:

  Steven Rostedt (VMware):

  - Do not free tep->cmdlines in add_new_comm() on failure.

  - Remove unneeded qsort and uses memmove instead

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2019-08-29 20:56:32 +02:00
Documentation Merge branch 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2019-08-25 10:10:15 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Rename other to deprecated 2019-05-03 06:34:32 -06:00
arch perf/x86/intel: Support PEBS output to PT 2019-08-28 11:29:39 +02:00
block block: remove REQ_NOWAIT_INLINE 2019-08-15 11:09:16 -06:00
certs Revert "Merge tag 'keys-acl-20190703' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs" 2019-07-10 18:43:43 -07:00
crypto USB / PHY patches for 5.3-rc1 2019-07-11 15:40:06 -07:00
drivers A minor auxdisplay improvement: 2019-08-25 11:43:17 -07:00
fs This pull request contains the following fixes for UBIFS and JFFS2: 2019-08-25 11:29:27 -07:00
include perf: Allow normal events to output AUX data 2019-08-28 11:29:38 +02:00
init Merge branch 'work.mount0' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2019-07-19 10:42:02 -07:00
ipc Merge branch 'work.mount0' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2019-07-19 10:42:02 -07:00
kernel perf: Allow normal events to output AUX data 2019-08-28 11:29:38 +02:00
lib Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2019-08-06 17:11:59 -07:00
mm mm/kasan: fix false positive invalid-free reports with CONFIG_KASAN_SW_TAGS=y 2019-08-24 19:48:42 -07:00
net Three important fixes tagged for stable (an indefinite hang, a crash on 2019-08-23 09:19:38 -07:00
samples auxdisplay: Fix a typo in cfag12864b-example.c 2019-08-08 20:00:18 +02:00
scripts SPDX fixes for 5.3-rc5 2019-08-18 09:26:16 -07:00
security KEYS: trusted: allow module init if TPM is inactive or deactivated 2019-08-13 19:59:23 +03:00
sound sound fixes for 5.3-rc5 2019-08-16 08:49:45 -07:00
tools tools lib traceevent: Remove unneeded qsort and uses memmove instead 2019-08-29 08:36:12 -03:00
usr kbuild: enable arch/s390/include/uapi/asm/zcrypt.h for uapi header test 2019-07-23 10:45:46 +02:00
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README

Linux kernel
============

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.