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Linus Torvalds 9f0c253ddd Performance events changes for v6.12:
- Implement per-PMU context rescheduling to significantly improve single-PMU
    performance, and related cleanups/fixes. (by Peter Zijlstra and Namhyung Kim)
 
  - Fix ancient bug resulting in a lot of events being dropped erroneously
    at higher sampling frequencies. (by Luo Gengkun)
 
  - uprobes enhancements:
 
      - Implement RCU-protected hot path optimizations for better performance:
 
          "For baseline vs SRCU, peak througput increased from 3.7 M/s (million uprobe
           triggerings per second) up to about 8 M/s. For uretprobes it's a bit more
           modest with bump from 2.4 M/s to 5 M/s.
 
           For SRCU vs RCU Tasks Trace, peak throughput for uprobes increases further from
           8 M/s to 10.3 M/s (+28%!), and for uretprobes from 5.3 M/s to 5.8 M/s (+11%),
           as we have more work to do on uretprobes side.
 
           Even single-thread (no contention) performance is slightly better: 3.276 M/s to
           3.396 M/s (+3.5%) for uprobes, and 2.055 M/s to 2.174 M/s (+5.8%)
           for uretprobes."
 
           (by Andrii Nakryiko et al)
 
      - Document mmap_lock, don't abuse get_user_pages_remote(). (by Oleg Nesterov)
 
      - Cleanups & fixes to prepare for future work:
 
         - Remove uprobe_register_refctr()
 	- Simplify error handling for alloc_uprobe()
         - Make uprobe_register() return struct uprobe *
         - Fold __uprobe_unregister() into uprobe_unregister()
         - Shift put_uprobe() from delete_uprobe() to uprobe_unregister()
         - BPF: Fix use-after-free in bpf_uprobe_multi_link_attach()
 
           (by Oleg Nesterov)
 
  - New feature & ABI extension: allow events to use PERF_SAMPLE READ with
    inheritance, enabling sample based profiling of a group of counters over
    a hierarchy of processes or threads.  (by Ben Gainey)
 
  - Intel uncore & power events updates:
 
       - Add Arrow Lake and Lunar Lake support
       - Add PERF_EV_CAP_READ_SCOPE
       - Clean up and enhance cpumask and hotplug support
 
         (by Kan Liang)
 
       - Add LNL uncore iMC freerunning support
       - Use D0:F0 as a default device
 
         (by Zhenyu Wang)
 
  - Intel PT: fix AUX snapshot handling race. (by Adrian Hunter)
 
  - Misc fixes and cleanups. (by James Clark, Jiri Olsa, Oleg Nesterov and Peter Zijlstra)
 
 Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Merge tag 'perf-core-2024-09-18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

Pull perf events updates from Ingo Molnar:

 - Implement per-PMU context rescheduling to significantly improve
   single-PMU performance, and related cleanups/fixes (Peter Zijlstra
   and Namhyung Kim)

 - Fix ancient bug resulting in a lot of events being dropped
   erroneously at higher sampling frequencies (Luo Gengkun)

 - uprobes enhancements:

     - Implement RCU-protected hot path optimizations for better
       performance:

         "For baseline vs SRCU, peak througput increased from 3.7 M/s
          (million uprobe triggerings per second) up to about 8 M/s. For
          uretprobes it's a bit more modest with bump from 2.4 M/s to
          5 M/s.

          For SRCU vs RCU Tasks Trace, peak throughput for uprobes
          increases further from 8 M/s to 10.3 M/s (+28%!), and for
          uretprobes from 5.3 M/s to 5.8 M/s (+11%), as we have more
          work to do on uretprobes side.

          Even single-thread (no contention) performance is slightly
          better: 3.276 M/s to 3.396 M/s (+3.5%) for uprobes, and 2.055
          M/s to 2.174 M/s (+5.8%) for uretprobes."

          (Andrii Nakryiko et al)

     - Document mmap_lock, don't abuse get_user_pages_remote() (Oleg
       Nesterov)

     - Cleanups & fixes to prepare for future work:
        - Remove uprobe_register_refctr()
	- Simplify error handling for alloc_uprobe()
        - Make uprobe_register() return struct uprobe *
        - Fold __uprobe_unregister() into uprobe_unregister()
        - Shift put_uprobe() from delete_uprobe() to uprobe_unregister()
        - BPF: Fix use-after-free in bpf_uprobe_multi_link_attach()
          (Oleg Nesterov)

 - New feature & ABI extension: allow events to use PERF_SAMPLE READ
   with inheritance, enabling sample based profiling of a group of
   counters over a hierarchy of processes or threads (Ben Gainey)

 - Intel uncore & power events updates:

      - Add Arrow Lake and Lunar Lake support
      - Add PERF_EV_CAP_READ_SCOPE
      - Clean up and enhance cpumask and hotplug support
        (Kan Liang)

      - Add LNL uncore iMC freerunning support
      - Use D0:F0 as a default device
        (Zhenyu Wang)

 - Intel PT: fix AUX snapshot handling race (Adrian Hunter)

 - Misc fixes and cleanups (James Clark, Jiri Olsa, Oleg Nesterov and
   Peter Zijlstra)

* tag 'perf-core-2024-09-18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (40 commits)
  dmaengine: idxd: Clean up cpumask and hotplug for perfmon
  iommu/vt-d: Clean up cpumask and hotplug for perfmon
  perf/x86/intel/cstate: Clean up cpumask and hotplug
  perf: Add PERF_EV_CAP_READ_SCOPE
  perf: Generic hotplug support for a PMU with a scope
  uprobes: perform lockless SRCU-protected uprobes_tree lookup
  rbtree: provide rb_find_rcu() / rb_find_add_rcu()
  perf/uprobe: split uprobe_unregister()
  uprobes: travers uprobe's consumer list locklessly under SRCU protection
  uprobes: get rid of enum uprobe_filter_ctx in uprobe filter callbacks
  uprobes: protected uprobe lifetime with SRCU
  uprobes: revamp uprobe refcounting and lifetime management
  bpf: Fix use-after-free in bpf_uprobe_multi_link_attach()
  perf/core: Fix small negative period being ignored
  perf: Really fix event_function_call() locking
  perf: Optimize __pmu_ctx_sched_out()
  perf: Add context time freeze
  perf: Fix event_function_call() locking
  perf: Extract a few helpers
  perf: Optimize context reschedule for single PMU cases
  ...
2024-09-18 15:03:58 +02:00
arch Performance events changes for v6.12: 2024-09-18 15:03:58 +02:00
block Updates for the interrupt subsystem: 2024-09-17 07:09:17 +02:00
certs
crypto crypto: aegis128 - Fix indentation issue in crypto_aegis128_process_crypt() 2024-09-13 18:26:52 +08:00
Documentation IOMMU Updates for Linux v6.12 2024-09-18 12:45:52 +02:00
drivers Performance events changes for v6.12: 2024-09-18 15:03:58 +02:00
fs execve updates for v6.12-rc1 2024-09-18 11:53:31 +02:00
include Performance events changes for v6.12: 2024-09-18 15:03:58 +02:00
init cgroup: Changes for v6.12 2024-09-18 06:39:03 +02:00
io_uring slab updates for 6.12 2024-09-18 08:53:53 +02:00
ipc sysctl: treewide: constify the ctl_table argument of proc_handlers 2024-07-24 20:59:29 +02:00
kernel Performance events changes for v6.12: 2024-09-18 15:03:58 +02:00
lib hardening updates for v6.12-rc1 2024-09-18 12:12:41 +02:00
LICENSES
mm execve updates for v6.12-rc1 2024-09-18 11:53:31 +02:00
net slab updates for 6.12 2024-09-18 08:53:53 +02:00
rust Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2024-09-05 20:37:20 -07:00
samples treewide: remove unnecessary <linux/version.h> inclusion 2024-08-12 18:36:44 +09:00
scripts hardening updates for v6.12-rc1 2024-09-18 12:12:41 +02:00
security lsm/stable-6.12 PR 20240911 2024-09-16 18:19:47 +02:00
sound sound updates for 6.12-rc1 2024-09-17 17:03:43 +02:00
tools Performance events changes for v6.12: 2024-09-18 15:03:58 +02:00
usr initramfs: shorten cmd_initfs in usr/Makefile 2024-07-16 01:07:52 +09:00
virt KVM: x86: Disallow read-only memslots for SEV-ES and SEV-SNP (and TDX) 2024-08-14 12:28:24 -04:00
.clang-format Docs: Move clang-format from process/ to dev-tools/ 2024-06-26 16:36:00 -06:00
.cocciconfig
.editorconfig .editorconfig: remove trim_trailing_whitespace option 2024-06-13 16:47:52 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore
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.gitignore .gitignore: add .gcda files 2024-08-09 13:18:46 +01:00
.mailmap sound fixes for 6.11 2024-09-14 11:54:24 +02:00
.rustfmt.toml
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