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Linus Torvalds 535a265d7f perf tools changes for v6.6:
perf tools maintainership:
 
 - Add git information for perf-tools and perf-tools-next trees/branches to the
   MAINTAINERS file. That is where development now takes place and myself and
   Namhyung Kim have write access, more people to come as we emulate other
   maintainer groups.
 
 perf record:
 
 - Record kernel data maps when 'perf record --data' is used, so that global variables can
   be resolved and used in tools that do data profiling.
 
 perf trace:
 
 - Remove the old, experimental support for BPF events in which a .c file was passed as
   an event: "perf trace -e hello.c" to then get compiled and loaded.
 
   The only known usage for that, that shipped with the kernel as an example for such events,
   augmented the raw_syscalls tracepoints and was converted to a libbpf skeleton, reusing all
   the user space components and the BPF code connected to the syscalls.
 
   In the end just the way to glue the BPF part and the user space type beautifiers changed,
   now being performed by libbpf skeletons.
 
   The next step is to use BTF to do pretty printing of all syscall types, as discussed with
   Alan Maguire and others.
 
   Now, on a perf built with BUILD_BPF_SKEL=1 we get most if not all path/filenames/strings,
   some of the networking data structures, perf_event_attr, etc, i.e. systemwide tracing of
   nanosleep calls and perf_event_open syscalls while 'perf stat' runs 'sleep' for 5 seconds:
 
   # perf trace -a -e *nanosleep,perf* perf stat -e cycles,instructions sleep 5
      0.000 (   9.034 ms): perf/327641 perf_event_open(attr_uptr: { type: 0 (PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE), size: 136, config: 0 (PERF_COUNT_HW_CPU_CYCLES), sample_type: IDENTIFIER, read_format: TOTAL_TIME_ENABLED|TOTAL_TIME_RUNNING, disabled: 1, inherit: 1, enable_on_exec: 1, exclude_guest: 1 }, pid: 327642 (perf), cpu: -1, group_fd: -1, flags: FD_CLOEXEC) = 3
      9.039 (   0.006 ms): perf/327641 perf_event_open(attr_uptr: { type: 0 (PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE), size: 136, config: 0x1 (PERF_COUNT_HW_INSTRUCTIONS), sample_type: IDENTIFIER, read_format: TOTAL_TIME_ENABLED|TOTAL_TIME_RUNNING, disabled: 1, inherit: 1, enable_on_exec: 1, exclude_guest: 1 }, pid: 327642 (perf-exec), cpu: -1, group_fd: -1, flags: FD_CLOEXEC) = 4
          ? (           ): gpm/991  ... [continued]: clock_nanosleep())               = 0
     10.133 (           ): sleep/327642 clock_nanosleep(rqtp: { .tv_sec: 5, .tv_nsec: 0 }, rmtp: 0x7ffd36f83ed0) ...
          ? (           ): pool-gsd-smart/3051  ... [continued]: clock_nanosleep())   = 0
     30.276 (           ): gpm/991 clock_nanosleep(rqtp: { .tv_sec: 2, .tv_nsec: 0 }, rmtp: 0x7ffcc6f73710) ...
    223.215 (1000.430 ms): pool-gsd-smart/3051 clock_nanosleep(rqtp: { .tv_sec: 1, .tv_nsec: 0 }, rmtp: 0x7f6e7fffec90) = 0
     30.276 (2000.394 ms): gpm/991  ... [continued]: clock_nanosleep())               = 0
   1230.814 (           ): pool-gsd-smart/3051 clock_nanosleep(rqtp: { .tv_sec: 1, .tv_nsec: 0 }, rmtp: 0x7f6e7fffec90) ...
   1230.814 (1000.404 ms): pool-gsd-smart/3051  ... [continued]: clock_nanosleep())   = 0
   2030.886 (           ): gpm/991 clock_nanosleep(rqtp: { .tv_sec: 2, .tv_nsec: 0 }, rmtp: 0x7ffcc6f73710) ...
   2237.709 (1000.153 ms): pool-gsd-smart/3051 clock_nanosleep(rqtp: { .tv_sec: 1, .tv_nsec: 0 }, rmtp: 0x7f6e7fffec90) = 0
          ? (           ): crond/1172  ... [continued]: clock_nanosleep())            = 0
   3242.699 (           ): pool-gsd-smart/3051 clock_nanosleep(rqtp: { .tv_sec: 1, .tv_nsec: 0 }, rmtp: 0x7f6e7fffec90) ...
   2030.886 (2000.385 ms): gpm/991  ... [continued]: clock_nanosleep())               = 0
   3728.078 (           ): crond/1172 clock_nanosleep(rqtp: { .tv_sec: 60, .tv_nsec: 0 }, rmtp: 0x7ffe0971dcf0) ...
   3242.699 (1000.158 ms): pool-gsd-smart/3051  ... [continued]: clock_nanosleep())   = 0
   4031.409 (           ): gpm/991 clock_nanosleep(rqtp: { .tv_sec: 2, .tv_nsec: 0 }, rmtp: 0x7ffcc6f73710) ...
     10.133 (5000.375 ms): sleep/327642  ... [continued]: clock_nanosleep())          = 0
 
  Performance counter stats for 'sleep 5':
 
          2,617,347      cycles
          1,855,997      instructions                     #    0.71  insn per cycle
 
        5.002282128 seconds time elapsed
 
        0.000855000 seconds user
        0.000852000 seconds sys
   #
 
 perf annotate:
 
 - Building with binutils' libopcode now is opt-in (BUILD_NONDISTRO=1) for
   licensing reasons, and we missed a build test on tools/perf/tests makefile.
 
   Since we now default to NDEBUG=1, we ended up segfaulting when building with
   BUILD_NONDISTRO=1 because a needed initialization routine was being "error
   checked" via an assert.
 
   Fix it by explicitly checking the result and aborting instead if it fails.
 
   We better back propagate the error, but at least 'perf annotate' on samples
   collected for a BPF program is back working when perf is built with
   BUILD_NONDISTRO=1.
 
 perf report/top:
 
 - Add back TUI hierarchy mode header, that is seen when using 'perf report/top --hierarchy'.
 
 - Fix the number of entries for 'e' key in the TUI that was preventing navigation of
   lines when expanding an entry.
 
 perf report/script:
 
 - Support cross platform register handling, allowing a perf.data file collected
   on one architecture to have registers sampled correctly displayed when
   analysis tools such as 'perf report' and 'perf script' are used on a different
   architecture.
 
 - Fix handling of event attributes in pipe mode, i.e. when one uses:
 
 	perf record -o - | perf report -i -
 
   When no perf.data files are used.
 
 - Handle files generated via pipe mode with a version of perf and then read
   also via pipe mode with a different version of perf, where the event attr
   record may have changed, use the record size field to properly support this
   version mismatch.
 
 perf probe:
 
 - Accessing global variables from uprobes isn't supported, make the error
   message state that instead of stating that some minimal kernel version is
   needed to have that feature. This seems just a tool limitation, the kernel
   probably has all that is needed.
 
 perf tests:
 
 - Fix a reference count related leak in the dlfilter v0 API where the result
   of a thread__find_symbol_fb() is not matched with an addr_location__exit()
   to drop the reference counts of the resolved components (machine, thread, map,
   symbol, etc). Add a dlfilter test to make sure that doesn't regresses.
 
 - Lots of fixes for the 'perf test' written in shell script related to problems
   found with the shellcheck utility.
 
 - Fixes for 'perf test' shell scripts testing features enabled when perf is
   built with BUILD_BPF_SKEL=1, such as 'perf stat' bpf counters.
 
 - Add perf record sample filtering test, things like the following example, that gets
   implemented as a BPF filter attached to the event:
 
    # perf record -e task-clock -c 10000 --filter 'ip < 0xffffffff00000000'
 
 - Improve the way the task_analyzer test checks if libtraceevent is linked,
   using 'perf version --build-options' instead of the more expensinve
   'perf record -e "sched:sched_switch"'.
 
 - Add support for riscv in the mmap-basic test. (This went as well via the RiscV tree, same contents).
 
 libperf:
 
 - Implement riscv mmap support (This went as well via the RiscV tree, same contents).
 
 perf script:
 
 - New tool that converts perf.data files to the firefox profiler format so that one can use
   the visualizer at https://profiler.firefox.com/. Done by Anup Sharma as part of this year's
   Google Summer of Code.
 
   One can generate the output and upload it to the web interface but Anup also automated
   everything:
 
      perf script gecko -F 99 -a sleep 60
 
 - Support syscall name parsing on arm64.
 
 - Print "cgroup" field on the same line as "comm".
 
 perf bench:
 
 - Add new 'uprobe' benchmark to measure the overhead of uprobes with/without
   BPF programs attached to it.
 
 - breakpoints are not available on power9, skip that test.
 
 perf stat:
 
 - Add #num_cpus_online literal to be used in 'perf stat' metrics, and add this extra
   'perf test' check that exemplifies its purpose:
 
 	TEST_ASSERT_VAL("#num_cpus_online",
                        expr__parse(&num_cpus_online, ctx, "#num_cpus_online") == 0);
 	TEST_ASSERT_VAL("#num_cpus", expr__parse(&num_cpus, ctx, "#num_cpus") == 0);
 	TEST_ASSERT_VAL("#num_cpus >= #num_cpus_online", num_cpus >= num_cpus_online);
 
 Miscellaneous:
 
 - Improve tool startup time by lazily reading PMU, JSON, sysfs data.
 
 - Improve error reporting in the parsing of events, passing YYLTYPE to error routines,
   so that the output can show were the parsing error was found.
 
 - Add 'perf test' entries to check the parsing of events improvements.
 
 - Fix various leak for things detected by -fsanitize=address, mostly things that would
   be freed at tool exit, including:
 
   - Free evsel->filter on the destructor.
 
   - Allow tools to register a thread->priv destructor and use it in 'perf trace'.
 
   - Free evsel->priv in 'perf trace'.
 
   - Free string returned by synthesize_perf_probe_point() when the caller fails
     to do all it needs.
 
 - Adjust various compiler options to not consider errors some warnings when
   building with broken headers found in things like python, flex, bison, as we
   otherwise build with -Werror. Some for gcc, some for clang, some for some
   specific version of those, some for some specific version of flex or bison, or
   some specific combination of these components, bah.
 
 - Allow customization of clang options for BPF target, this helps building on
   gentoo where there are other oddities where BPF targets gets passed some compiler
   options intended for the native build, so building with WERROR=0 helps while
   these oddities are fixed.
 
 - Dont pass ERR_PTR() values to perf_session__delete() in 'perf top' and 'perf lock',
   fixing some segfaults when handling some odd failures.
 
 - Add LTO build option.
 
 - Fix format of unordered lists in the perf docs (tools/perf/Documentation).
 
 - Overhaul the bison files, using constructs such as YYNOMEM.
 
 - Remove unused tokens from the bison .y files.
 
 - Add more comments to various structs.
 
 - A few LoongArch enablement patches.
 
 Vendor events (JSON):
 
 - Add JSON metrics for Yitian 710 DDR (aarch64). Things like:
 
 	EventName, BriefDescription
 	visible_window_limit_reached_rd, "At least one entry in read queue reaches the visible window limit.",
 	visible_window_limit_reached_wr, "At least one entry in write queue reaches the visible window limit.",
 	op_is_dqsosc_mpc	       , "A DQS Oscillator MPC command to DRAM.",
 	op_is_dqsosc_mrr	       , "A DQS Oscillator MRR command to DRAM.",
 	op_is_tcr_mrr		       , "A Temperature Compensated Refresh(TCR) MRR command to DRAM.",
 
 - Add AmpereOne metrics (aarch64).
 
 - Update N2 and V2 metrics (aarch64) and events using Arm telemetry repo.
 
 - Update scale units and descriptions of common topdown metrics on aarch64. Things like:
 
   - "MetricExpr": "stall_slot_frontend / (#slots * cpu_cycles)",
   - "BriefDescription": "Frontend bound L1 topdown metric",
   + "MetricExpr": "100 * (stall_slot_frontend / (#slots * cpu_cycles))",
   + "BriefDescription": "This metric is the percentage of total slots that were stalled due to resource constraints in the frontend of the processor.",
 
 - Update events for intel: meteorlake to 1.04, sapphirerapids to 1.15, Icelake+ metric constraints.
 
 - Update files for the power10 platform.
 
 Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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Merge tag 'perf-tools-for-v6.6-1-2023-09-05' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/perf/perf-tools

Pull perf tools updates from Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo:
 "perf tools maintainership:

   - Add git information for perf-tools and perf-tools-next trees and
     branches to the MAINTAINERS file. That is where development now
     takes place and myself and Namhyung Kim have write access, more
     people to come as we emulate other maintainer groups.

  perf record:

   - Record kernel data maps when 'perf record --data' is used, so that
     global variables can be resolved and used in tools that do data
     profiling.

  perf trace:

   - Remove the old, experimental support for BPF events in which a .c
     file was passed as an event: "perf trace -e hello.c" to then get
     compiled and loaded.

     The only known usage for that, that shipped with the kernel as an
     example for such events, augmented the raw_syscalls tracepoints and
     was converted to a libbpf skeleton, reusing all the user space
     components and the BPF code connected to the syscalls.

     In the end just the way to glue the BPF part and the user space
     type beautifiers changed, now being performed by libbpf skeletons.

     The next step is to use BTF to do pretty printing of all syscall
     types, as discussed with Alan Maguire and others.

     Now, on a perf built with BUILD_BPF_SKEL=1 we get most if not all
     path/filenames/strings, some of the networking data structures,
     perf_event_attr, etc, i.e. systemwide tracing of nanosleep calls
     and perf_event_open syscalls while 'perf stat' runs 'sleep' for 5
     seconds:

      # perf trace -a -e *nanosleep,perf* perf stat -e cycles,instructions sleep 5
         0.000 (   9.034 ms): perf/327641 perf_event_open(attr_uptr: { type: 0 (PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE), size: 136, config: 0 (PERF_COUNT_HW_CPU_CYCLES), sample_type: IDENTIFIER, read_format: TOTAL_TIME_ENABLED|TOTAL_TIME_RUNNING, disabled: 1, inherit: 1, enable_on_exec: 1, exclude_guest: 1 }, pid: 327642 (perf), cpu: -1, group_fd: -1, flags: FD_CLOEXEC) = 3
         9.039 (   0.006 ms): perf/327641 perf_event_open(attr_uptr: { type: 0 (PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE), size: 136, config: 0x1 (PERF_COUNT_HW_INSTRUCTIONS), sample_type: IDENTIFIER, read_format: TOTAL_TIME_ENABLED|TOTAL_TIME_RUNNING, disabled: 1, inherit: 1, enable_on_exec: 1, exclude_guest: 1 }, pid: 327642 (perf-exec), cpu: -1, group_fd: -1, flags: FD_CLOEXEC) = 4
             ? (           ): gpm/991  ... [continued]: clock_nanosleep())               = 0
        10.133 (           ): sleep/327642 clock_nanosleep(rqtp: { .tv_sec: 5, .tv_nsec: 0 }, rmtp: 0x7ffd36f83ed0) ...
             ? (           ): pool-gsd-smart/3051  ... [continued]: clock_nanosleep())   = 0
        30.276 (           ): gpm/991 clock_nanosleep(rqtp: { .tv_sec: 2, .tv_nsec: 0 }, rmtp: 0x7ffcc6f73710) ...
       223.215 (1000.430 ms): pool-gsd-smart/3051 clock_nanosleep(rqtp: { .tv_sec: 1, .tv_nsec: 0 }, rmtp: 0x7f6e7fffec90) = 0
        30.276 (2000.394 ms): gpm/991  ... [continued]: clock_nanosleep())               = 0
      1230.814 (           ): pool-gsd-smart/3051 clock_nanosleep(rqtp: { .tv_sec: 1, .tv_nsec: 0 }, rmtp: 0x7f6e7fffec90) ...
      1230.814 (1000.404 ms): pool-gsd-smart/3051  ... [continued]: clock_nanosleep())   = 0
      2030.886 (           ): gpm/991 clock_nanosleep(rqtp: { .tv_sec: 2, .tv_nsec: 0 }, rmtp: 0x7ffcc6f73710) ...
      2237.709 (1000.153 ms): pool-gsd-smart/3051 clock_nanosleep(rqtp: { .tv_sec: 1, .tv_nsec: 0 }, rmtp: 0x7f6e7fffec90) = 0
             ? (           ): crond/1172  ... [continued]: clock_nanosleep())            = 0
      3242.699 (           ): pool-gsd-smart/3051 clock_nanosleep(rqtp: { .tv_sec: 1, .tv_nsec: 0 }, rmtp: 0x7f6e7fffec90) ...
      2030.886 (2000.385 ms): gpm/991  ... [continued]: clock_nanosleep())               = 0
      3728.078 (           ): crond/1172 clock_nanosleep(rqtp: { .tv_sec: 60, .tv_nsec: 0 }, rmtp: 0x7ffe0971dcf0) ...
      3242.699 (1000.158 ms): pool-gsd-smart/3051  ... [continued]: clock_nanosleep())   = 0
      4031.409 (           ): gpm/991 clock_nanosleep(rqtp: { .tv_sec: 2, .tv_nsec: 0 }, rmtp: 0x7ffcc6f73710) ...
        10.133 (5000.375 ms): sleep/327642  ... [continued]: clock_nanosleep())          = 0

      Performance counter stats for 'sleep 5':

             2,617,347      cycles
             1,855,997      instructions                     #    0.71  insn per cycle

           5.002282128 seconds time elapsed

           0.000855000 seconds user
           0.000852000 seconds sys

  perf annotate:

   - Building with binutils' libopcode now is opt-in (BUILD_NONDISTRO=1)
     for licensing reasons, and we missed a build test on
     tools/perf/tests makefile.

     Since we now default to NDEBUG=1, we ended up segfaulting when
     building with BUILD_NONDISTRO=1 because a needed initialization
     routine was being "error checked" via an assert.

     Fix it by explicitly checking the result and aborting instead if it
     fails.

     We better back propagate the error, but at least 'perf annotate' on
     samples collected for a BPF program is back working when perf is
     built with BUILD_NONDISTRO=1.

  perf report/top:

   - Add back TUI hierarchy mode header, that is seen when using 'perf
     report/top --hierarchy'.

   - Fix the number of entries for 'e' key in the TUI that was
     preventing navigation of lines when expanding an entry.

  perf report/script:

   - Support cross platform register handling, allowing a perf.data file
     collected on one architecture to have registers sampled correctly
     displayed when analysis tools such as 'perf report' and 'perf
     script' are used on a different architecture.

   - Fix handling of event attributes in pipe mode, i.e. when one uses:

  	perf record -o - | perf report -i -

     When no perf.data files are used.

   - Handle files generated via pipe mode with a version of perf and
     then read also via pipe mode with a different version of perf,
     where the event attr record may have changed, use the record size
     field to properly support this version mismatch.

  perf probe:

   - Accessing global variables from uprobes isn't supported, make the
     error message state that instead of stating that some minimal
     kernel version is needed to have that feature. This seems just a
     tool limitation, the kernel probably has all that is needed.

  perf tests:

   - Fix a reference count related leak in the dlfilter v0 API where the
     result of a thread__find_symbol_fb() is not matched with an
     addr_location__exit() to drop the reference counts of the resolved
     components (machine, thread, map, symbol, etc). Add a dlfilter test
     to make sure that doesn't regresses.

   - Lots of fixes for the 'perf test' written in shell script related
     to problems found with the shellcheck utility.

   - Fixes for 'perf test' shell scripts testing features enabled when
     perf is built with BUILD_BPF_SKEL=1, such as 'perf stat' bpf
     counters.

   - Add perf record sample filtering test, things like the following
     example, that gets implemented as a BPF filter attached to the
     event:

       # perf record -e task-clock -c 10000 --filter 'ip < 0xffffffff00000000'

   - Improve the way the task_analyzer test checks if libtraceevent is
     linked, using 'perf version --build-options' instead of the more
     expensinve 'perf record -e "sched:sched_switch"'.

   - Add support for riscv in the mmap-basic test. (This went as well
     via the RiscV tree, same contents).

  libperf:

   - Implement riscv mmap support (This went as well via the RiscV tree,
     same contents).

  perf script:

   - New tool that converts perf.data files to the firefox profiler
     format so that one can use the visualizer at
     https://profiler.firefox.com/. Done by Anup Sharma as part of this
     year's Google Summer of Code.

     One can generate the output and upload it to the web interface but
     Anup also automated everything:

       perf script gecko -F 99 -a sleep 60

   - Support syscall name parsing on arm64.

   - Print "cgroup" field on the same line as "comm".

  perf bench:

   - Add new 'uprobe' benchmark to measure the overhead of uprobes
     with/without BPF programs attached to it.

   - breakpoints are not available on power9, skip that test.

  perf stat:

   - Add #num_cpus_online literal to be used in 'perf stat' metrics, and
     add this extra 'perf test' check that exemplifies its purpose:

  	TEST_ASSERT_VAL("#num_cpus_online",
                         expr__parse(&num_cpus_online, ctx, "#num_cpus_online") == 0);
  	TEST_ASSERT_VAL("#num_cpus", expr__parse(&num_cpus, ctx, "#num_cpus") == 0);
  	TEST_ASSERT_VAL("#num_cpus >= #num_cpus_online", num_cpus >= num_cpus_online);

  Miscellaneous:

   - Improve tool startup time by lazily reading PMU, JSON, sysfs data.

   - Improve error reporting in the parsing of events, passing YYLTYPE
     to error routines, so that the output can show were the parsing
     error was found.

   - Add 'perf test' entries to check the parsing of events
     improvements.

   - Fix various leak for things detected by -fsanitize=address, mostly
     things that would be freed at tool exit, including:

       - Free evsel->filter on the destructor.

       - Allow tools to register a thread->priv destructor and use it in
         'perf trace'.

       - Free evsel->priv in 'perf trace'.

       - Free string returned by synthesize_perf_probe_point() when the
         caller fails to do all it needs.

   - Adjust various compiler options to not consider errors some
     warnings when building with broken headers found in things like
     python, flex, bison, as we otherwise build with -Werror. Some for
     gcc, some for clang, some for some specific version of those, some
     for some specific version of flex or bison, or some specific
     combination of these components, bah.

   - Allow customization of clang options for BPF target, this helps
     building on gentoo where there are other oddities where BPF targets
     gets passed some compiler options intended for the native build, so
     building with WERROR=0 helps while these oddities are fixed.

   - Dont pass ERR_PTR() values to perf_session__delete() in 'perf top'
     and 'perf lock', fixing some segfaults when handling some odd
     failures.

   - Add LTO build option.

   - Fix format of unordered lists in the perf docs
     (tools/perf/Documentation)

   - Overhaul the bison files, using constructs such as YYNOMEM.

   - Remove unused tokens from the bison .y files.

   - Add more comments to various structs.

   - A few LoongArch enablement patches.

  Vendor events (JSON):

   - Add JSON metrics for Yitian 710 DDR (aarch64). Things like:

  	EventName, BriefDescription
  	visible_window_limit_reached_rd, "At least one entry in read queue reaches the visible window limit.",
  	visible_window_limit_reached_wr, "At least one entry in write queue reaches the visible window limit.",
  	op_is_dqsosc_mpc	       , "A DQS Oscillator MPC command to DRAM.",
  	op_is_dqsosc_mrr	       , "A DQS Oscillator MRR command to DRAM.",
  	op_is_tcr_mrr		       , "A Temperature Compensated Refresh(TCR) MRR command to DRAM.",

   - Add AmpereOne metrics (aarch64).

   - Update N2 and V2 metrics (aarch64) and events using Arm telemetry
     repo.

   - Update scale units and descriptions of common topdown metrics on
     aarch64. Things like:
       - "MetricExpr": "stall_slot_frontend / (#slots * cpu_cycles)",
       - "BriefDescription": "Frontend bound L1 topdown metric",
       + "MetricExpr": "100 * (stall_slot_frontend / (#slots * cpu_cycles))",
       + "BriefDescription": "This metric is the percentage of total slots that were stalled due to resource constraints in the frontend of the processor.",

   - Update events for intel: meteorlake to 1.04, sapphirerapids to
     1.15, Icelake+ metric constraints.

   - Update files for the power10 platform"

* tag 'perf-tools-for-v6.6-1-2023-09-05' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/perf/perf-tools: (217 commits)
  perf parse-events: Fix driver config term
  perf parse-events: Fixes relating to no_value terms
  perf parse-events: Fix propagation of term's no_value when cloning
  perf parse-events: Name the two term enums
  perf list: Don't print Unit for "default_core"
  perf vendor events intel: Fix modifier in tma_info_system_mem_parallel_reads for skylake
  perf dlfilter: Avoid leak in v0 API test use of resolve_address()
  perf metric: Add #num_cpus_online literal
  perf pmu: Remove str from perf_pmu_alias
  perf parse-events: Make common term list to strbuf helper
  perf parse-events: Minor help message improvements
  perf pmu: Avoid uninitialized use of alias->str
  perf jevents: Use "default_core" for events with no Unit
  perf test stat_bpf_counters_cgrp: Enhance perf stat cgroup BPF counter test
  perf test shell stat_bpf_counters: Fix test on Intel
  perf test shell record_bpf_filter: Skip 6.2 kernel
  libperf: Get rid of attr.id field
  perf tools: Convert to perf_record_header_attr_id()
  libperf: Add perf_record_header_attr_id()
  perf tools: Handle old data in PERF_RECORD_ATTR
  ...
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Documentation perf tools changes for v6.6: 2023-09-09 20:06:17 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Add the copyleft-next-0.3.1 license 2022-11-08 15:44:01 +01:00
arch sh updates for v6.6 2023-09-09 14:46:57 -07:00
block block: fix pin count management when merging same-page segments 2023-09-06 07:32:27 -06:00
certs certs: Reference revocation list for all keyrings 2023-08-17 20:12:41 +00:00
crypto This update includes the following changes: 2023-08-29 11:23:29 -07:00
drivers RISC-V Patches for the 6.6 Merge Window, Part 2 (try 2) 2023-09-09 14:25:11 -07:00
fs six smb3 client fixes, one fix for nls Kconfig, one minor spnego registry update 2023-09-09 19:56:23 -07:00
include six smb3 client fixes, one fix for nls Kconfig, one minor spnego registry update 2023-09-09 19:56:23 -07:00
init workqueue: Changes for v6.6 2023-09-01 16:06:32 -07:00
io_uring Revert "io_uring: fix IO hang in io_wq_put_and_exit from do_exit()" 2023-09-07 09:41:49 -06:00
ipc Add x86 shadow stack support 2023-08-31 12:20:12 -07:00
kernel RISC-V Patches for the 6.6 Merge Window, Part 2 (try 2) 2023-09-09 14:25:11 -07:00
lib iov_iter: Kunit tests for page extraction 2023-09-09 15:11:49 -07:00
mm LoongArch changes for v6.6 2023-09-08 12:16:52 -07:00
net Including fixes from netfilter and bpf. 2023-09-07 18:33:07 -07:00
rust Documentation work keeps chugging along; stuff for 6.6 includes: 2023-08-30 20:05:42 -07:00
samples VFIO updates for v6.6-rc1 2023-08-30 20:36:01 -07:00
scripts Including fixes from netfilter and bpf. 2023-09-07 18:33:07 -07:00
security Landlock updates for v6.6-rc1 2023-09-08 12:06:51 -07:00
sound sound fixes for 6.6-rc1 2023-09-08 13:07:50 -07:00
tools perf tools changes for v6.6: 2023-09-09 20:06:17 -07:00
usr initramfs: Encode dependency on KBUILD_BUILD_TIMESTAMP 2023-06-06 17:54:49 +09:00
virt ARM: 2023-09-07 13:52:20 -07:00
.clang-format iommu: Add for_each_group_device() 2023-05-23 08:15:51 +02:00
.cocciconfig
.get_maintainer.ignore get_maintainer: add Alan to .get_maintainer.ignore 2022-08-20 15:17:44 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set diff driver for Rust source code files 2023-05-31 17:48:25 +02:00
.gitignore kbuild: rpm-pkg: rename binkernel.spec to kernel.spec 2023-07-25 00:59:33 +09:00
.mailmap for-linus-2023083101 2023-09-01 12:31:44 -07:00
.rustfmt.toml rust: add `.rustfmt.toml` 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS USB: Remove Wireless USB and UWB documentation 2023-08-09 14:17:32 +02:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v6.1 2022-10-10 12:00:45 -07:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS perf tools changes for v6.6: 2023-09-09 20:06:17 -07:00
Makefile Kbuild updates for v6.6 2023-09-05 11:01:47 -07:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

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.