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Linus Torvalds 10a3efd0fe perf tools changes for v5.13: 1st batch
perf stat:
 
 - Add support for hybrid PMUs to support systems such as Intel Alderlake
   and its BIG/little core/atom cpus.
 
 - Introduce 'bperf' to share hardware PMCs with BPF.
 
 - New --iostat option to collect and present IO stats on Intel hardware.
 
   This functionality is based on recently introduced sysfs attributes
   for Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor family (code name Skylake-SP):
 
     commit bb42b3d397 ("perf/x86/intel/uncore: Expose an Uncore unit to IIO PMON mapping")
 
   It is intended to provide four I/O performance metrics in MB per each
   PCIe root port:
 
    - Inbound Read: I/O devices below root port read from the host memory
    - Inbound Write: I/O devices below root port write to the host memory
    - Outbound Read: CPU reads from I/O devices below root port
    - Outbound Write: CPU writes to I/O devices below root port
 
 - Align CSV output for summary.
 
 - Clarify --null use cases: Assess raw overhead of 'perf stat' or
   measure just wall clock time.
 
 - Improve readability of shadow stats.
 
 perf record:
 
 - Change the COMM when starting tha workload so that --exclude-perf
   doesn't seem to be not honoured.
 
 - Improve 'Workload failed' message printing events + what was exec'ed.
 
 - Fix cross-arch support for TIME_CONV.
 
 perf report:
 
 - Add option to disable raw event ordering.
 
 - Dump the contents of PERF_RECORD_TIME_CONV in 'perf report -D'.
 
 - Improvements to --stat output, that shows information about PERF_RECORD_ events.
 
 - Preserve identifier id in OCaml demangler.
 
 perf annotate:
 
 - Show full source location with 'l' hotkey in the 'perf annotate' TUI.
 
 - Add line number like in TUI and source location at EOL to the 'perf annotate' --stdio mode.
 
 - Add --demangle and --demangle-kernel to 'perf annotate'.
 
 - Allow configuring annotate.demangle{,_kernel} in 'perf config'.
 
 - Fix sample events lost in stdio mode.
 
 perf data:
 
 - Allow converting a perf.data file to JSON.
 
 libperf:
 
 - Add support for user space counter access.
 
 - Update topdown documentation to permit rdpmc calls.
 
 perf test:
 
 - Add 'perf test' for 'perf stat' CSV output.
 
 - Add 'perf test' entries to test the hybrid PMU support.
 
 - Cleanup 'perf test daemon' if its 'perf test' is interrupted.
 
 - Handle metric reuse in pmu-events parsing 'perf test' entry.
 
 - Add test for PE executable support.
 
 - Add timeout for wait for daemon start in its 'perf test' entries.
 
 Build:
 
 - Enable libtraceevent dynamic linking.
 
 - Improve feature detection output.
 
 - Fix caching of feature checks caching.
 
 - First round of updates for tools copies of kernel headers.
 
 - Enable warnings when compiling BPF programs.
 
 Vendor specific events:
 
 Intel:
 
 - Add missing skylake & icelake model numbers.
 
 arm64:
 
 - Add Hisi hip08 L1, L2 and L3 metrics.
 
 - Add Fujitsu A64FX PMU events.
 
 PowerPC:
 
 - Initial JSON/events list for power10 platform.
 
 - Remove unsupported power9 metrics.
 
 AMD:
 
 - Add Zen3 events.
 
 - Fix broken L2 Cache Hits from L2 HWPF metric.
 
 - Use lowercases for all the eventcodes and umasks.
 
 Hardware tracing:
 
 arm64:
 
 - Update CoreSight ETM metadata format.
 
 - Fix bitmap for CS-ETM option.
 
 - Support PID tracing in config.
 
 - Detect pid in VMID for kernel running at EL2.
 
 Arch specific:
 
 MIPS:
 
 - Support MIPS unwinding and dwarf-regs.
 
 - Generate mips syscalls_n64.c syscall table.
 
 PowerPC:
 
 - Add support for PERF_SAMPLE_WEIGH_STRUCT on PowerPC.
 
 - Support pipeline stage cycles for powerpc.
 
 libbeauty:
 
 - Fix fsconfig generator.
 
 Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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Merge tag 'perf-tools-for-v5.13-2021-04-29' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux

Pull perf tool updates from Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo:
 "perf stat:

   - Add support for hybrid PMUs to support systems such as Intel
     Alderlake and its BIG/little core/atom cpus.

   - Introduce 'bperf' to share hardware PMCs with BPF.

   - New --iostat option to collect and present IO stats on Intel
     hardware.

     This functionality is based on recently introduced sysfs attributes
     for Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor family (code name Skylake-SP)
     in commit bb42b3d397 ("perf/x86/intel/uncore: Expose an Uncore
     unit to IIO PMON mapping")

     It is intended to provide four I/O performance metrics in MB per
     each PCIe root port:

       - Inbound Read: I/O devices below root port read from the host memory
       - Inbound Write: I/O devices below root port write to the host memory
       - Outbound Read: CPU reads from I/O devices below root port
       - Outbound Write: CPU writes to I/O devices below root port

   - Align CSV output for summary.

   - Clarify --null use cases: Assess raw overhead of 'perf stat' or
     measure just wall clock time.

   - Improve readability of shadow stats.

  perf record:

   - Change the COMM when starting tha workload so that --exclude-perf
     doesn't seem to be not honoured.

   - Improve 'Workload failed' message printing events + what was
     exec'ed.

   - Fix cross-arch support for TIME_CONV.

  perf report:

   - Add option to disable raw event ordering.

   - Dump the contents of PERF_RECORD_TIME_CONV in 'perf report -D'.

   - Improvements to --stat output, that shows information about
     PERF_RECORD_ events.

   - Preserve identifier id in OCaml demangler.

  perf annotate:

   - Show full source location with 'l' hotkey in the 'perf annotate'
     TUI.

   - Add line number like in TUI and source location at EOL to the 'perf
     annotate' --stdio mode.

   - Add --demangle and --demangle-kernel to 'perf annotate'.

   - Allow configuring annotate.demangle{,_kernel} in 'perf config'.

   - Fix sample events lost in stdio mode.

  perf data:

   - Allow converting a perf.data file to JSON.

  libperf:

   - Add support for user space counter access.

   - Update topdown documentation to permit rdpmc calls.

  perf test:

   - Add 'perf test' for 'perf stat' CSV output.

   - Add 'perf test' entries to test the hybrid PMU support.

   - Cleanup 'perf test daemon' if its 'perf test' is interrupted.

   - Handle metric reuse in pmu-events parsing 'perf test' entry.

   - Add test for PE executable support.

   - Add timeout for wait for daemon start in its 'perf test' entries.

  Build:

   - Enable libtraceevent dynamic linking.

   - Improve feature detection output.

   - Fix caching of feature checks caching.

   - First round of updates for tools copies of kernel headers.

   - Enable warnings when compiling BPF programs.

  Vendor specific events:

   - Intel:
      - Add missing skylake & icelake model numbers.

   - arm64:
      - Add Hisi hip08 L1, L2 and L3 metrics.
      - Add Fujitsu A64FX PMU events.

   - PowerPC:
      - Initial JSON/events list for power10 platform.
      - Remove unsupported power9 metrics.

   - AMD:
      - Add Zen3 events.
      - Fix broken L2 Cache Hits from L2 HWPF metric.
      - Use lowercases for all the eventcodes and umasks.

  Hardware tracing:

   - arm64:
      - Update CoreSight ETM metadata format.
      - Fix bitmap for CS-ETM option.
      - Support PID tracing in config.
      - Detect pid in VMID for kernel running at EL2.

  Arch specific updates:

   - MIPS:
      - Support MIPS unwinding and dwarf-regs.
      - Generate mips syscalls_n64.c syscall table.

   - PowerPC:
      - Add support for PERF_SAMPLE_WEIGH_STRUCT on PowerPC.
      - Support pipeline stage cycles for powerpc.

  libbeauty:

   - Fix fsconfig generator"

* tag 'perf-tools-for-v5.13-2021-04-29' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux: (132 commits)
  perf build: Defer printing detected features to the end of all feature checks
  tools build: Allow deferring printing the results of feature detection
  perf build: Regenerate the FEATURE_DUMP file after extra feature checks
  perf session: Dump PERF_RECORD_TIME_CONV event
  perf session: Add swap operation for event TIME_CONV
  perf jit: Let convert_timestamp() to be backwards-compatible
  perf tools: Change fields type in perf_record_time_conv
  perf tools: Enable libtraceevent dynamic linking
  perf Documentation: Document intel-hybrid support
  perf tests: Skip 'perf stat metrics (shadow stat) test' for hybrid
  perf tests: Support 'Convert perf time to TSC' test for hybrid
  perf tests: Support 'Session topology' test for hybrid
  perf tests: Support 'Parse and process metrics' test for hybrid
  perf tests: Support 'Track with sched_switch' test for hybrid
  perf tests: Skip 'Setup struct perf_event_attr' test for hybrid
  perf tests: Add hybrid cases for 'Roundtrip evsel->name' test
  perf tests: Add hybrid cases for 'Parse event definition strings' test
  perf record: Uniquify hybrid event name
  perf stat: Warn group events from different hybrid PMU
  perf stat: Filter out unmatched aggregation for hybrid event
  ...
2021-05-01 12:22:38 -07:00
arch ARM: 2021-05-01 10:14:08 -07:00
block cgroup: rstat: punt root-level optimization to individual controllers 2021-04-30 11:20:37 -07:00
certs certs: add 'x509_revocation_list' to gitignore 2021-04-26 10:48:07 -07:00
crypto for-5.13/drivers-2021-04-27 2021-04-28 14:39:37 -07:00
Documentation ARM: 2021-05-01 10:14:08 -07:00
drivers - Improve scalability of DM's device hash by switching to rbtree 2021-05-01 11:34:03 -07:00
fs afs: Fix speculative status fetches 2021-05-01 11:55:36 -07:00
include - Improve scalability of DM's device hash by switching to rbtree 2021-05-01 11:34:03 -07:00
init mm: move mem_init_print_info() into mm_init() 2021-04-30 11:20:42 -07:00
ipc fs: make helpers idmap mount aware 2021-01-24 14:27:20 +01:00
kernel ARM: 2021-05-01 10:14:08 -07:00
lib ARM: 2021-05-01 10:14:08 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Add the CC-BY-4.0 license 2020-12-08 10:33:27 -07:00
mm mm/memory-failure: unnecessary amount of unmapping 2021-04-30 11:20:44 -07:00
net RDMA merge window pull request 2021-05-01 09:15:05 -07:00
samples samples/vfio-mdev/mdpy: use remap_vmalloc_range 2021-04-30 11:20:39 -07:00
scripts scripts: a new script for checking duplicate struct declaration 2021-04-30 11:20:35 -07:00
security Networking changes for 5.13. 2021-04-29 11:57:23 -07:00
sound sound updates for 5.13 2021-04-30 12:48:14 -07:00
tools perf tools changes for v5.13: 1st batch 2021-05-01 12:22:38 -07:00
usr Kbuild updates for v5.12 2021-02-25 10:17:31 -08:00
virt KVM: Boost vCPU candidate in user mode which is delivering interrupt 2021-04-21 12:20:03 -04:00
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CREDITS - Core Frameworks 2021-04-28 15:59:13 -07:00
Kbuild kbuild: rename hostprogs-y/always to hostprogs/always-y 2020-02-04 01:53:07 +09:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS perf tools changes for v5.13: 1st batch 2021-05-01 12:22:38 -07:00
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README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

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.