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Robert Walker e573e978fb perf cs-etm: Inject capabilitity for CoreSight traces
Added user space perf functionality to translate CoreSight traces into
instruction events with branch stack.

To invoke the new functionality, use the perf inject tool with
--itrace=il. For example, to translate the ETM trace from perf.data into
last branch records in a new inj.data file:

    $ perf inject --itrace=i100000il128 -i perf.data -o perf.data.new

The 'i' parameter to itrace generates periodic instruction events.  The
period between instruction events can be specified as a number of
instructions suffixed by i (default 100000).

The parameter to 'l' specifies the number of entries in the branch stack
attached to instruction events.

The 'b' parameter to itrace generates events on taken branches.

This patch also fixes the contents of the branch events used in perf
report - previously branch events were generated for each contiguous
range of instructions executed.  These are fixed to generate branch
events between the last address of a range ending in an executed branch
instruction and the start address of the next range.

Based on patches by Sebastian Pop <s.pop@samsung.com> with additional fixes
and support for specifying the instruction period.

Originally-by: Sebastian Pop <s.pop@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Robert Walker <robert.walker@arm.com>
Acked-by: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org>
Cc: coresight@lists.linaro.org
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1518607481-4059-2-git-send-email-robert.walker@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2018-02-16 14:55:44 -03:00
Documentation MIPS changes for 4.16-rc2 2018-02-13 09:35:17 -08:00
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arch Merge branch 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-02-14 17:31:51 -08:00
block vfs: do bulk POLL* -> EPOLL* replacement 2018-02-11 14:34:03 -08:00
certs License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
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init membarrier: Provide core serializing command, *_SYNC_CORE 2018-02-05 21:35:03 +01:00
ipc vfs: do bulk POLL* -> EPOLL* replacement 2018-02-11 14:34:03 -08:00
kernel kprobes: Propagate error from disarm_kprobe_ftrace() 2018-02-16 09:12:58 +01:00
lib Kbuild updates for v4.16 (2nd) 2018-02-09 19:32:41 -08:00
mm Merge branch 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-02-14 17:31:51 -08:00
net vfs: do bulk POLL* -> EPOLL* replacement 2018-02-11 14:34:03 -08:00
samples sample/bpf: fix erspan metadata 2018-02-06 11:32:49 -05:00
scripts Kbuild updates for v4.16 (2nd) 2018-02-09 19:32:41 -08:00
security vfs: do bulk POLL* -> EPOLL* replacement 2018-02-11 14:34:03 -08:00
sound vfs: do bulk POLL* -> EPOLL* replacement 2018-02-11 14:34:03 -08:00
tools perf cs-etm: Inject capabilitity for CoreSight traces 2018-02-16 14:55:44 -03:00
usr initramfs: fix initramfs rebuilds w/ compression after disabling 2017-11-03 07:39:19 -07:00
virt vfs: do bulk POLL* -> EPOLL* replacement 2018-02-11 14:34:03 -08:00
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Kbuild Kbuild updates for v4.15 2017-11-17 17:45:29 -08:00
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MAINTAINERS Merge branch 'x86-pti-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-02-14 17:02:15 -08:00
Makefile Linux 4.16-rc1 2018-02-11 15:04:29 -08:00
README README: add a new README file, pointing to the Documentation/ 2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00

README

Linux kernel
============

This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst

Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

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.