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<title>Merge branch 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2013-07-02T23:21:45Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-07-02T23:21:45Z</published>
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Pull asm/x86 changes from Ingo Molnar:
 "Misc changes, with a bigger processor-flags cleanup/reorganization by
  Peter Anvin"

* 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86, asm, cleanup: Replace open-coded control register values with symbolic
  x86, processor-flags: Fix the datatypes and add bit number defines
  x86: Rename X86_CR4_RDWRGSFS to X86_CR4_FSGSBASE
  x86, flags: Rename X86_EFLAGS_BIT1 to X86_EFLAGS_FIXED
  linux/const.h: Add _BITUL() and _BITULL()
  x86/vdso: Convert use of typedef ctl_table to struct ctl_table
  x86: __force_order doesn't need to be an actual variable
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2013-07-02T23:15:23Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-07-02T23:15:23Z</published>
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Pull perf updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "Kernel improvements:

   - watchdog driver improvements by Li Zefan
   - Power7 CPI stack events related improvements by Sukadev Bhattiprolu
   - event multiplexing via hrtimers and other improvements by Stephane
     Eranian
   - kernel stack use optimization by Andrew Hunter
   - AMD IOMMU uncore PMU support by Suravee Suthikulpanit
   - NMI handling rate-limits by Dave Hansen
   - various hw_breakpoint fixes by Oleg Nesterov
   - hw_breakpoint overflow period sampling and related signal handling
     fixes by Jiri Olsa
   - Intel Haswell PMU support by Andi Kleen

  Tooling improvements:

   - Reset SIGTERM handler in workload child process, fix from David
     Ahern.
   - Makefile reorganization, prep work for Kconfig patches, from Jiri
     Olsa.
   - Add automated make test suite, from Jiri Olsa.
   - Add --percent-limit option to 'top' and 'report', from Namhyung
     Kim.
   - Sorting improvements, from Namhyung Kim.
   - Expand definition of sysfs format attribute, from Michael Ellerman.

  Tooling fixes:

   - 'perf tests' fixes from Jiri Olsa.
   - Make Power7 CPI stack events available in sysfs, from Sukadev
     Bhattiprolu.
   - Handle death by SIGTERM in 'perf record', fix from David Ahern.
   - Fix printing of perf_event_paranoid message, from David Ahern.
   - Handle realloc failures in 'perf kvm', from David Ahern.
   - Fix divide by 0 in variance, from David Ahern.
   - Save parent pid in thread struct, from David Ahern.
   - Handle JITed code in shared memory, from Andi Kleen.
   - Fixes for 'perf diff', from Jiri Olsa.
   - Remove some unused struct members, from Jiri Olsa.
   - Add missing liblk.a dependency for python/perf.so, fix from Jiri
     Olsa.
   - Respect CROSS_COMPILE in liblk.a, from Rabin Vincent.
   - No need to do locking when adding hists in perf report, only 'top'
     needs that, from Namhyung Kim.
   - Fix alignment of symbol column in in the hists browser (top,
     report) when -v is given, from NAmhyung Kim.
   - Fix 'perf top' -E option behavior, from Namhyung Kim.
   - Fix bug in isupper() and islower(), from Sukadev Bhattiprolu.
   - Fix compile errors in bp_signal 'perf test', from Sukadev
     Bhattiprolu.

  ... and more things"

* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (102 commits)
  perf/x86: Disable PEBS-LL in intel_pmu_pebs_disable()
  perf/x86: Fix shared register mutual exclusion enforcement
  perf/x86/intel: Support full width counting
  x86: Add NMI duration tracepoints
  perf: Drop sample rate when sampling is too slow
  x86: Warn when NMI handlers take large amounts of time
  hw_breakpoint: Introduce "struct bp_cpuinfo"
  hw_breakpoint: Simplify *register_wide_hw_breakpoint()
  hw_breakpoint: Introduce cpumask_of_bp()
  hw_breakpoint: Simplify the "weight" usage in toggle_bp_slot() paths
  hw_breakpoint: Simplify list/idx mess in toggle_bp_slot() paths
  perf/x86/intel: Add mem-loads/stores support for Haswell
  perf/x86/intel: Support Haswell/v4 LBR format
  perf/x86/intel: Move NMI clearing to end of PMI handler
  perf/x86/intel: Add Haswell PEBS support
  perf/x86/intel: Add simple Haswell PMU support
  perf/x86/intel: Add Haswell PEBS record support
  perf/x86/intel: Fix sparse warning
  perf/x86/amd: AMD IOMMU Performance Counter PERF uncore PMU implementation
  perf/x86/amd: Add IOMMU Performance Counter resource management
  ...
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<entry>
<title>perf/x86/intel: Support full width counting</title>
<updated>2013-06-26T09:59:25Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Andi Kleen</name>
<email>ak@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-06-25T15:12:33Z</published>
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Recent Intel CPUs like Haswell and IvyBridge have a new
alternative MSR range for perfctrs that allows writing the full
counter width. Enable this range if the hardware reports it
using a new capability bit.

Currently the perf code queries CPUID to get the counter width,
and sign extends the counter values as needed. The traditional
PERFCTR MSRs always limit to 32bit, even though the counter
internally is larger (usually 48 bits on recent CPUs)

When the new capability is set use the alternative range which
do not have these restrictions.

This lowers the overhead of perf stat slightly because it has to
do less interrupts to accumulate the counter value. On Haswell
it also avoids some problems with TSX aborting when the end of
the counter range is reached.

( See the patch "perf/x86/intel: Avoid checkpointed counters
  causing excessive TSX aborts" for more details. )

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@linux.intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Stephane Eranian &lt;eranian@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1372173153-20215-1-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>x86, processor-flags: Fix the datatypes and add bit number defines</title>
<updated>2013-06-25T23:26:06Z</updated>
<author>
<name>H. Peter Anvin</name>
<email>hpa@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-04-27T23:11:17Z</published>
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The control registers are unsigned long (32 bits on i386, 64 bits on
x86-64), and so make that manifest in the data type for the various
constants.  Add defines with a _BIT suffix which defines the bit
number, as opposed to the bit mask.

This should resolve some issues with ~bitmask that Linus discovered.

Reported-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-cwckhbrib2aux1qbteaebij0@git.kernel.org
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<title>x86: Rename X86_CR4_RDWRGSFS to X86_CR4_FSGSBASE</title>
<updated>2013-06-25T23:26:06Z</updated>
<author>
<name>H. Peter Anvin</name>
<email>hpa@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-04-27T23:37:47Z</published>
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Rename X86_CR4_RDWRGSFS to X86_CR4_FSGSBASE to match the SDM.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti &lt;mtosatti@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Gleb Natapov &lt;gleb@redhat.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-buq1evi5dpykxx7ak6amaam0@git.kernel.org
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<entry>
<title>x86, flags: Rename X86_EFLAGS_BIT1 to X86_EFLAGS_FIXED</title>
<updated>2013-06-25T23:25:32Z</updated>
<author>
<name>H. Peter Anvin</name>
<email>hpa@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-04-27T23:10:11Z</published>
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Bit 1 in the x86 EFLAGS is always set.  Name the macro something that
actually tries to explain what it is all about, rather than being a
tautology.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
Cc: Gleb Natapov &lt;gleb@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-f10rx5vjjm6tfnt8o1wseb3v@git.kernel.org
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<entry>
<title>Modify UEFI anti-bricking code</title>
<updated>2013-06-10T20:59:37Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Matthew Garrett</name>
<email>matthew.garrett@nebula.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-06-01T20:06:20Z</published>
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This patch reworks the UEFI anti-bricking code, including an effective
reversion of cc5a080c and 31ff2f20. It turns out that calling
QueryVariableInfo() from boot services results in some firmware
implementations jumping to physical addresses even after entering virtual
mode, so until we have 1:1 mappings for UEFI runtime space this isn't
going to work so well.

Reverting these gets us back to the situation where we'd refuse to create
variables on some systems because they classify deleted variables as "used"
until the firmware triggers a garbage collection run, which they won't do
until they reach a lower threshold. This results in it being impossible to
install a bootloader, which is unhelpful.

Feedback from Samsung indicates that the firmware doesn't need more than
5KB of storage space for its own purposes, so that seems like a reasonable
threshold. However, there's still no guarantee that a platform will attempt
garbage collection merely because it drops below this threshold. It seems
that this is often only triggered if an attempt to write generates a
genuine EFI_OUT_OF_RESOURCES error. We can force that by attempting to
create a variable larger than the remaining space. This should fail, but if
it somehow succeeds we can then immediately delete it.

I've tested this on the UEFI machines I have available, but I don't have
a Samsung and so can't verify that it avoids the bricking problem.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett &lt;matthew.garrett@nebula.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Lee, Chun-Y &lt;jlee@suse.com&gt; [ dummy variable cleanup ]
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming &lt;matt.fleming@intel.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux</title>
<updated>2013-05-11T22:23:17Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-05-11T22:23:17Z</published>
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Pull idle update from Len Brown:
 "Add support for new Haswell-ULT CPU idle power states"

* 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux:
  intel_idle: initial C8, C9, C10 support
  tools/power turbostat: display C8, C9, C10 residency
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'kvm-3.10-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm</title>
<updated>2013-05-05T21:47:31Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-05-05T21:47:31Z</published>
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Pull kvm updates from Gleb Natapov:
 "Highlights of the updates are:

  general:
   - new emulated device API
   - legacy device assignment is now optional
   - irqfd interface is more generic and can be shared between arches

  x86:
   - VMCS shadow support and other nested VMX improvements
   - APIC virtualization and Posted Interrupt hardware support
   - Optimize mmio spte zapping

  ppc:
    - BookE: in-kernel MPIC emulation with irqfd support
    - Book3S: in-kernel XICS emulation (incomplete)
    - Book3S: HV: migration fixes
    - BookE: more debug support preparation
    - BookE: e6500 support

  ARM:
   - reworking of Hyp idmaps

  s390:
   - ioeventfd for virtio-ccw

  And many other bug fixes, cleanups and improvements"

* tag 'kvm-3.10-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (204 commits)
  kvm: Add compat_ioctl for device control API
  KVM: x86: Account for failing enable_irq_window for NMI window request
  KVM: PPC: Book3S: Add API for in-kernel XICS emulation
  kvm/ppc/mpic: fix missing unlock in set_base_addr()
  kvm/ppc: Hold srcu lock when calling kvm_io_bus_read/write
  kvm/ppc/mpic: remove users
  kvm/ppc/mpic: fix mmio region lists when multiple guests used
  kvm/ppc/mpic: remove default routes from documentation
  kvm: KVM_CAP_IOMMU only available with device assignment
  ARM: KVM: iterate over all CPUs for CPU compatibility check
  KVM: ARM: Fix spelling in error message
  ARM: KVM: define KVM_ARM_MAX_VCPUS unconditionally
  KVM: ARM: Fix API documentation for ONE_REG encoding
  ARM: KVM: promote vfp_host pointer to generic host cpu context
  ARM: KVM: add architecture specific hook for capabilities
  ARM: KVM: perform HYP initilization for hotplugged CPUs
  ARM: KVM: switch to a dual-step HYP init code
  ARM: KVM: rework HYP page table freeing
  ARM: KVM: enforce maximum size for identity mapped code
  ARM: KVM: move to a KVM provided HYP idmap
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2013-04-30T14:41:01Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-04-30T14:41:01Z</published>
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Pull perf updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "Features:

   - Add "uretprobes" - an optimization to uprobes, like kretprobes are
     an optimization to kprobes.  "perf probe -x file sym%return" now
     works like kretprobes.  By Oleg Nesterov.

   - Introduce per core aggregation in 'perf stat', from Stephane
     Eranian.

   - Add memory profiling via PEBS, from Stephane Eranian.

   - Event group view for 'annotate' in --stdio, --tui and --gtk, from
     Namhyung Kim.

   - Add support for AMD NB and L2I "uncore" counters, by Jacob Shin.

   - Add Ivy Bridge-EP uncore support, by Zheng Yan

   - IBM zEnterprise EC12 oprofile support patchlet from Robert Richter.

   - Add perf test entries for checking breakpoint overflow signal
     handler issues, from Jiri Olsa.

   - Add perf test entry for for checking number of EXIT events, from
     Namhyung Kim.

   - Add perf test entries for checking --cpu in record and stat, from
     Jiri Olsa.

   - Introduce perf stat --repeat forever, from Frederik Deweerdt.

   - Add --no-demangle to report/top, from Namhyung Kim.

   - PowerPC fixes plus a couple of cleanups/optimizations in uprobes
     and trace_uprobes, by Oleg Nesterov.

  Various fixes and refactorings:

   - Fix dependency of the python binding wrt libtraceevent, from
     Naohiro Aota.

   - Simplify some perf_evlist methods and to allow 'stat' to share code
     with 'record' and 'trace', by Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo.

   - Remove dead code in related to libtraceevent integration, from
     Namhyung Kim.

   - Revert "perf sched: Handle PERF_RECORD_EXIT events" to get 'perf
     sched lat' back working, by Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

   - We don't use Newt anymore, just plain libslang, by Arnaldo Carvalho
     de Melo.

   - Kill a bunch of die() calls, from Namhyung Kim.

   - Fix build on non-glibc systems due to libio.h absence, from Cody P
     Schafer.

   - Remove some perf_session and tracing dead code, from David Ahern.

   - Honor parallel jobs, fix from Borislav Petkov

   - Introduce tools/lib/lk library, initially just removing duplication
     among tools/perf and tools/vm.  from Borislav Petkov

  ... and many more I missed to list, see the shortlog and git log for
  more details."

* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (136 commits)
  perf/x86/intel/P4: Robistify P4 PMU types
  perf/x86/amd: Fix AMD NB and L2I "uncore" support
  perf/x86/amd: Remove old-style NB counter support from perf_event_amd.c
  perf/x86: Check all MSRs before passing hw check
  perf/x86/amd: Add support for AMD NB and L2I "uncore" counters
  perf/x86/intel: Add Ivy Bridge-EP uncore support
  perf/x86/intel: Fix SNB-EP CBO and PCU uncore PMU filter management
  perf/x86: Avoid kfree() in CPU_{STARTING,DYING}
  uprobes/perf: Avoid perf_trace_buf_prepare/submit if -&gt;perf_events is empty
  uprobes/tracing: Don't pass addr=ip to perf_trace_buf_submit()
  uprobes/tracing: Change create_trace_uprobe() to support uretprobes
  uprobes/tracing: Make seq_printf() code uretprobe-friendly
  uprobes/tracing: Make register_uprobe_event() paths uretprobe-friendly
  uprobes/tracing: Make uprobe_{trace,perf}_print() uretprobe-friendly
  uprobes/tracing: Introduce is_ret_probe() and uretprobe_dispatcher()
  uprobes/tracing: Introduce uprobe_{trace,perf}_print() helpers
  uprobes/tracing: Generalize struct uprobe_trace_entry_head
  uprobes/tracing: Kill the pointless local_save_flags/preempt_count calls
  uprobes/tracing: Kill the pointless seq_print_ip_sym() call
  uprobes/tracing: Kill the pointless task_pt_regs() calls
  ...
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