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    Merge tag 'perf-core-for-mingo-4.12-20170316' of... · 61f63e38
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    Merge tag 'perf-core-for-mingo-4.12-20170316' 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:
    
    New features:
    
     - Add 'brstackinsn' field in 'perf script' to reuse the x86 instruction
       decoder used in the Intel PT code to study hot paths to samples (Andi Kleen)
    
    Kernel changes:
    
     - Default UPROBES_EVENTS to Y (Alexei Starovoitov)
    
     - Fix check for kretprobe offset within function entry (Naveen N. Rao)
    
    Infrastructure changes:
    
     - Introduce util func is_sdt_event() (Ravi Bangoria)
    
     - Make perf_event__synthesize_mmap_events() scale on older kernels where
       reading /proc/pid/maps is way slower than reading /proc/pid/task/pid/maps (Stephane Eranian)
    Signed-off-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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