- 09 Mar, 2012 11 commits
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Stephane Eranian authored
This patch updates perf report to support TUI mode when the perf.data file contains samples with branch stacks. For each row in the report, it is possible to annotate either the source or target of each branch. Signed-off-by:
Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: peterz@infradead.org Cc: acme@redhat.com Cc: asharma@fb.com Cc: ravitillo@lbl.gov Cc: vweaver1@eecs.utk.edu Cc: khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com Cc: dsahern@gmail.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1331246868-19905-5-git-send-email-eranian@google.comSigned-off-by:
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Stephane Eranian authored
This patch enhances perf report to auto-detect when the perf.data file contains samples with branch stacks. That way it is not necessary to use the -b option. To force branch view mode to off, simply use --no-branch-stack. Signed-off-by:
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Stephane Eranian authored
This patch adds a new feature bit, namely, HEADER_BRANCH_STACK. When present, it indicates that sample records may contain branch stack. This could be useful to a viewer to switch to branch mode without having to parse all the samples or without a specific cmdline option. This will be used in a subsequent patch to enhance perf report with branch stacks. Signed-off-by:
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Stephane Eranian authored
This patch chanegs the logic of the -b, --branch-stack options of perf record. Based on users' request, the patch provides a default filter mode with the -b (or --branch-any) option. With the option, any type of taken branches is sampled. With -j (or --branch-filter), the user can specify any valid combination of branch types and privilege levels if supported by the underlying hardware. The -b (--branch any) is a shortcut for: --branch-filter any. $ perf record -b foo or: $ perf record --branch-filter any foo For more specific filtering: $ perf record --branch-filter ind_call,u foo Signed-off-by:
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Stephane Eranian authored
This patches provides a way to handle legacy perf.data files. Legacy files are those using the older PERFFILE signature. For those, it is still necessary to detect endianness but without comparing their header->attr_size with the tool's own version as it may be different. Instead, we use a reference table for all known sizes from the legacy era. We try all the combinations for sizes and endianness. If we find a match, we proceed, otherwise we return: "incompatible file format". This is also done for the pipe-mode file format. Signed-off-by:
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Stephane Eranian authored
This patches cleans up local variable types for msz and ret. They need to be size_t and ssize_t respectively. It also fixes a bug whereby perf would not read attr struct with a different size than what it knows about. Signed-off-by:
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Stephane Eranian authored
This patch allows perf to process perf.data files generated using an ABI that has a different perf_event_attr struct size, i.e., a different ABI version. The perf_event_attr can be extended, yet perf needs to cope with older perf.data files. Similarly, perf must be able to cope with a perf.data file which is using a newer version of the ABI than what it knows about. This patch adds read_attr(), a routine that reads a perf_event_attr struct from a file incrementally based on its advertised size. If the on-file struct is smaller than what perf knows, then the extra fields are zeroed. If the on-file struct is bigger, then perf only uses what it knows about, the rest is skipped. Signed-off-by:
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Stephane Eranian authored
This patch adds reference sizes for revision 1 and 2 of the perf_event ABI, i.e., the size of the perf_event_attr struct. With Rev1: config2 was added = +8 bytes With Rev2: branch_sample_type was added = +8 bytes Adds the definition for Rev1, Rev2. This is useful for tools trying to decode the revision numbers based on the size of the struct. Signed-off-by:
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Roberto Agostino Vitillo authored
This patch adds support for taken branch sampling, i.e, the PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_STACK feature to perf report. In other words, to display histograms based on taken branches rather than executed instructions addresses. The new option is called -b and it takes no argument. To generate meaningful output, the perf.data must have been obtained using perf record -b xxx ... where xxx is a branch filter option. The output shows symbols, modules, sorted by 'who branches where' the most often. The percentages reported in the first column refer to the total number of branches captured and not the usual number of samples. Here is a quick example. Here branchy is simple test program which looks as follows: void f2(void) {} void f3(void) {} void f1(unsigned long n) { if (n & 1UL) f2(); else f3(); } int main(void) { unsigned long i; for (i=0; i < N; i++) f1(i); return 0; } Here is the output captured on Nehalem, if we are only interested in user level function calls. $ perf record -b any_call,u -e cycles:u branchy $ perf report -b --sort=symbol 52.34% [.] main [.] f1 24.04% [.] f1 [.] f3 23.60% [.] f1 [.] f2 0.01% [k] _IO_new_file_xsputn [k] _IO_file_overflow 0.01% [k] _IO_vfprintf_internal [k] _IO_new_file_xsputn 0.01% [k] _IO_vfprintf_internal [k] strchrnul 0.01% [k] __printf [k] _IO_vfprintf_internal 0.01% [k] main [k] __printf About half (52%) of the call branches captured are from main() -> f1(). The second half (24%+23%) is split in two equal shares between f1() -> f2(), f1() ->f3(). The output is as expected given the code. It should be noted, that using -b in perf record does not eliminate information in the perf.data file. Consequently, a typical profile can also be obtained by perf report by simply not using its -b option. It is possible to sort on branch related columns: - dso_from, symbol_from - dso_to, symbol_to - mispredict Signed-off-by:Roberto Agostino Vitillo <ravitillo@lbl.gov> Signed-off-by:
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Roberto Agostino Vitillo authored
This patch adds a new option to enable taken branch stack sampling, i.e., leverage the PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_STACK feature of perf_events. There is a new option to active this mode: -b. It is possible to pass a set of filters to select the type of branches to sample. The following filters are available: - any : any type of branches - any_call : any function call or system call - any_ret : any function return or system call return - any_ind : any indirect branch - u: only when the branch target is at the user level - k: only when the branch target is in the kernel - hv: only when the branch target is in the hypervisor Filters can be combined by passing a comma separated list to the option: $ perf record -b any_call,u -e cycles:u branchy Signed-off-by:
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Roberto Agostino Vitillo authored
This patch adds: - ability to parse samples with PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_STACK - sort on branches (dso_from, symbol_from, dso_to, symbol_to, mispredict) - build histograms on branches Signed-off-by:
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- 05 Mar, 2012 12 commits
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Stephane Eranian authored
With branch stack sampling, it is possible to filter by priv levels. In system-wide mode, that means it is possible to capture only user level branches. The builtin SW LBR filter needs to disassemble code based on LBR captured addresses. For that, it needs to know the task the addresses are associated with. Because of context switches, the content of the branch stack buffer may contain addresses from different tasks. We need a callback on context switch to either flush the branch stack or save it. This patch adds a new callback in struct pmu which is called during context switches. The callback is called only when necessary. That is when a system-wide context has, at least, one event which uses PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_STACK. The callback is never called for per-thread context. In this version, the Intel x86 code simply flushes (resets) the LBR on context switches (fills it with zeroes). Those zeroed branches are then filtered out by the SW filter. Signed-off-by:
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1328826068-11713-11-git-send-email-eranian@google.comSigned-off-by:
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Stephane Eranian authored
PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_* is disabled for: - SW events (sw counters, tracepoints) - HW breakpoints - ALL but Intel x86 architecture - AMD64 processors Signed-off-by:
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Stephane Eranian authored
This patch adds an internal sofware filter to complement the (optional) LBR hardware filter. The software filter is necessary: - as a substitute when there is no HW LBR filter (e.g., Atom, Core) - to complement HW LBR filter in case of errata (e.g., Nehalem/Westmere) - to provide finer grain filtering (e.g., all processors) Sometimes the LBR HW filter cannot distinguish between two types of branches. For instance, to capture syscall as CALLS, it is necessary to enable the LBR_FAR filter which will also capture JMP instructions. Thus, a second pass is necessary to filter those out, this is what the SW filter can do. The SW filter is built on top of the internal x86 disassembler. It is a best effort filter especially for user level code. It is subject to the availability of the text page of the program. The SW filter is enabled on all Intel processors. It is bypassed when the user is capturing all branches at all priv levels. Signed-off-by:
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Stephane Eranian authored
This patch implements PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH support for Intel x86processors. It connects PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH to the actual LBR. The patch adds the hooks in the PMU irq handler to save the LBR on counter overflow for both regular and PEBS modes. Signed-off-by:
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Stephane Eranian authored
The patch adds a restriction for Intel Atom LBR support. Only steppings 10 (PineView) and more recent are supported. Older models do not have a functional LBR. Their LBR does not freeze on PMU interrupt which makes LBR unusable in the context of perf_events. Signed-off-by:
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Stephane Eranian authored
This patch adds the mappings from the generic PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_* filters to the actual Intel x86LBR filters, whenever they exist. Signed-off-by:
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Stephane Eranian authored
If precise sampling is enabled on Intel x86 then perf_event uses PEBS. To correct for the off-by-one error of PEBS, perf_event uses LBR when precise_sample > 1. On Intel x86 PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_STACK is implemented using LBR, therefore both features must be coordinated as they may not configure LBR the same way. For PEBS, LBR needs to capture all branches at the priv level of the associated event. This patch checks that the branch type and priv level of BRANCH_STACK is compatible with that of the PEBS LBR requirement, thereby allowing: $ perf record -b any,u -e instructions:upp .... But: $ perf record -b any_call,u -e instructions:upp Is not possible. Signed-off-by:
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Stephane Eranian authored
The Intel LBR on some recent processor is capable of filtering branches by type. The filter is configurable via the LBR_SELECT MSR register. There are limitation on how this register can be used. On Nehalem/Westmere, the LBR_SELECT is shared by the two HT threads when HT is on. It is private to each core when HT is off. On SandyBridge, the LBR_SELECT register is private to each thread when HT is on. It is private to each core when HT is off. The kernel must manage the sharing of LBR_SELECT. It allows multiple users on the same logical CPU to use LBR_SELECT as long as they program it with the same value. Across sibling CPUs (HT threads), the same restriction applies on NHM/WSM. This patch implements this sharing logic by leveraging the mechanism put in place for managing the offcore_response shared MSR. We modify __intel_shared_reg_get_constraints() to cause x86_get_event_constraint() to be called because LBR may be associated with events that may be counter constrained. Signed-off-by:
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Stephane Eranian authored
This patch adds the LBR definitions for NHM/WSM/SNB and Core. It also adds the definitions for the architected LBR MSR: LBR_SELECT, LBRT_TOS. Signed-off-by:
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Stephane Eranian authored
This patch adds the ability to sample taken branches to the perf_event interface. The ability to capture taken branches is very useful for all sorts of analysis. For instance, basic block profiling, call counts, statistical call graph. This new capability requires hardware assist and as such may not be available on all HW platforms. On Intel x86 it is implemented on top of the Last Branch Record (LBR) facility. To enable taken branches sampling, the PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_STACK bit must be set in attr->sample_type. Sampled taken branches may be filtered by type and/or priv levels. The patch adds a new field, called branch_sample_type, to the perf_event_attr structure. It contains a bitmask of filters to apply to the sampled taken branches. Filters may be implemented in HW. If the HW filter does not exist or is not good enough, some arch may also implement a SW filter. The following generic filters are currently defined: - PERF_SAMPLE_USER only branches whose targets are at the user level - PERF_SAMPLE_KERNEL only branches whose targets are at the kernel level - PERF_SAMPLE_HV only branches whose targets are at the hypervisor level - PERF_SAMPLE_ANY any type of branches (subject to priv levels filters) - PERF_SAMPLE_ANY_CALL any call branches (may incl. syscall on some arch) - PERF_SAMPLE_ANY_RET any return branches (may incl. syscall returns on some arch) - PERF_SAMPLE_IND_CALL indirect call branches Obviously filter may be combined. The priv level bits are optional. If not provided, the priv level of the associated event are used. It is possible to collect branches at a priv level different from the associated event. Use of kernel, hv priv levels is subject to permissions and availability (hv). The number of taken branch records present in each sample may vary based on HW, the type of sampled branches, the executed code. Therefore each sample contains the number of taken branches it contains. Signed-off-by:
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Ingo Molnar authored
Conflicts: tools/perf/builtin-record.c tools/perf/builtin-top.c tools/perf/perf.h tools/perf/util/top.h Merge reason: resolve these cherry-picking conflicts. Signed-off-by: -
Ingo Molnar authored
Merge tag 'perf-urgent-for-mingo' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux into perf/urgent Cherry picked fixes from perf/core, together with the kernel fix (1018faa6), the sampling tools (top, record) are back working on AMD systems. Signed-off-by:
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
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- 03 Mar, 2012 3 commits
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Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo authored
Just fall back to resetting those fields, if set, warning the user that that feature is not available. If guest samples appear they will just be discarded because no struct machine will be found and thus the event will be accounted as not handled and dropped, see 0c095715. Reported-by:
Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com> Tested-by:
Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-vuwxig36mzprl5n7nzvnxxsh@git.kernel.orgSigned-off-by:
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Joerg Roedel authored
Setting perf_guest to true by default makes no sense because the perf subcommands can not setup guest symbol information and thus not process and guest samples. The only exception is perf-kvm which changes the perf_guest value on its own. So change the default for perf_guest back to false. Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1328893505-4115-3-git-send-email-joerg.roedel@amd.comSigned-off-by:
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David Ahern authored
A recent refactoring of perf-record introduced the following: perf record -a -B Couldn't generating buildids. Use --no-buildid to profile anyway. sleep: Terminated I believe the triple negative was meant to be only a double negative. :-) While I'm there, fixed the grammar on the error message. Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1328567272-13190-1-git-send-email-dsahern@gmail.comSigned-off-by:
David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
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- 02 Mar, 2012 2 commits
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Joerg Roedel authored
It turned out that a performance counter on AMD does not count at all when the GO or HO bit is set in the control register and SVM is disabled in EFER. This patch works around this issue by masking out the HO bit in the performance counter control register when SVM is not enabled. The GO bit is not touched because it is only set when the user wants to count in guest-mode only. So when SVM is disabled the counter should not run at all and the not-counting is the intended behaviour. Signed-off-by:
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Ingo Molnar authored
Merge tag 'perf-urgent-for-mingo' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux into perf/urgent Various smaller perf/urgent fixes. Signed-off-by:
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- 29 Feb, 2012 4 commits
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Prashanth Nageshappa authored
The 'perf probe' command allows kprobe to be inserted at any offset from a function start, which results in adding kprobes to unintended location. (example: perf probe do_fork+10000 is allowed even though size of do_fork is ~904). My previous patch https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/2/24/42 addressed the case where DWARF info was available for the kernel. This patch fixes the case where perf probe is used on a kernel without debuginfo available. Acked-by:
Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com> Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4F4C544D.1010909@linux.vnet.ibm.comSigned-off-by:
Prashanth Nageshappa <prashanth@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by:
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David Ahern authored
If threads in a multi-threaded process have names shorter than the main thread the comm for the named threads is not properly terminated. E.g., for the process 'namedthreads' where each thread is named noploop%d where %d is the thread number: Before: perf script -f comm,tid,ip,sym,dso noploop:4ads 21616 400a49 noploop (/tmp/namedthreads) The 'ads' in the thread comm bleeds over from the process name. After: perf script -f comm,tid,ip,sym,dso noploop:4 21616 400a49 noploop (/tmp/namedthreads) Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1330111898-68071-1-git-send-email-dsahern@gmail.comSigned-off-by: -
Prashanth Nageshappa authored
The perf probe command allows kprobe to be inserted at any offset from a function start, which results in adding kprobes to unintended location. Example: perf probe do_fork+10000 is allowed even though size of do_fork is ~904. This patch will ensure probe addition fails when the offset specified is greater than size of the function. Acked-by:
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Namhyung Kim authored
On old kernels that don't support sample_id_all feature, perf_evlist__id2evsel() returns NULL for non-sampling events. This breaks perf top when multiple events are given on command line. Fix it by using first evsel in the evlist. This will also prevent getting the same (potential) problem in such new tool/ old kernel combo. Suggested-by:
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1329702447-25045-1-git-send-email-namhyung.kim@lge.comSigned-off-by:
Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com> Signed-off-by:
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- 28 Feb, 2012 3 commits
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Jason Baron authored
In the jump label enabled case, calling static_key_enabled() results in a function call. The function returns the results of a compare, so it really doesn't need the overhead of a full function call. Let's make it 'static inline' for both the jump label enabled and disabled cases. Signed-off-by:
Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> Cc: a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/201202281849.q1SIn1p2023270@int-mx10.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.comSigned-off-by:
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Ingo Molnar authored
Merge reason: After much naming discussion, there seems to be consensus now - queue it up for v3.4. Signed-off-by: -
Namhyung Kim authored
If kzalloc() for TYPE_DATA failed on a given cpu, previous chunk of TYPE_INST will be leaked. Fix it. Thanks to Peter Zijlstra for suggesting this better solution. It should work as long as the initial value of the region is all 0's and that's the case of static (per-cpu) memory allocation. Signed-off-by:
Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Acked-by:
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- 27 Feb, 2012 5 commits
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aia21/ntfsLinus Torvalds authored
Here are some trivial NTFS changes (a spelling fix and two use before NULL check cases found by Coverity as well as an update in MAINTAINERS for the path to the ntfs git repo) together with a simple LDM fix for parsing fragmented VBLKs. * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aia21/ntfs: NTFS: Update git repo path in MAINTAINERS file. LDM: Fix reassembly of extended VBLKs. NTFS: Correct two spelling errors "dealocate" to "deallocate" in mft.c. NTFS: Do not dereference pointer before checking for NULL. NTFS: Remove unused variable.
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tipLinus Torvalds authored
* 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: x86/mce/AMD: Fix UP build error x86: Specify a size for the cmp in the NMI handler x86/nmi: Test saved %cs in NMI to determine nested NMI case x86/amd: Fix L1i and L2 cache sharing information for AMD family 15h processors x86/microcode: Remove noisy AMD microcode warning
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tipLinus Torvalds authored
* 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: sched/events: Revert trace_sched_stat_sleeptime()
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tipLinus Torvalds authored
* 'irq-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: genirq: Handle pending irqs in irq_startup() genirq: Unmask oneshot irqs when thread was not woken
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Heiko Carstens authored
The new is_compat_task() define for the !COMPAT case in include/linux/compat.h conflicts with a similar define in arch/s390/include/asm/compat.h. This is the minimal patch which fixes the build issues. Signed-off-by:
Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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