Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/li…

…nux/kernel/git/tip/tip

Pull perf updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The main changes in this cycle were:

  Kernel side changes:

   - Kprobes and uprobes changes:
      - Make their trampolines read-only while they are used
      - Make UPROBES_EVENTS default-y which is the distro practice
      - Apply misc fixes and robustization to probe point insertion.

   - add support for AMD IOMMU events

   - extend hw events on Intel Goldmont CPUs

   - ... plus misc fixes and updates.

  Tooling side changes:

   - support s390 jump instructions in perf annotate (Christian
     Borntraeger)

   - vendor hardware events updates (Andi Kleen)

   - add argument support for SDT events in powerpc (Ravi Bangoria)

   - beautify the statx syscall arguments in 'perf trace' (Arnaldo
     Carvalho de Melo)

   - handle inline functions in callchains (Jin Yao)

   - enable sorting by srcline as key (Milian Wolff)

   - 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)

   - add PERF_RECORD_NAMESPACES so that the kernel can record
     information required to associate samples to namespaces, helping in
     container problem characterization. (Hari Bathini)

   - allow sorting by symbol_size in 'perf report' and 'perf top'
     (Charles Baylis)

   - in perf stat, make system wide (-a) the default option if no target
     was specified and one of following conditions is met:
      - no workload specified (current behaviour)
      - a workload is specified but all requested events are system wide
        ones, like uncore ones. (Jiri Olsa)

   - ... plus lots of other updates, enhancements, cleanups and fixes"

* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (235 commits)
  perf tools: Fix the code to strip command name
  tools arch x86: Sync cpufeatures.h
  tools arch: Sync arch/x86/lib/memcpy_64.S with the kernel
  tools: Update asm-generic/mman-common.h copy from the kernel
  perf tools: Use just forward declarations for struct thread where possible
  perf tools: Add the right header to obtain PERF_ALIGN()
  perf tools: Remove poll.h and wait.h from util.h
  perf tools: Remove string.h, unistd.h and sys/stat.h from util.h
  perf tools: Remove stale prototypes from builtin.h
  perf tools: Remove string.h from util.h
  perf tools: Remove sys/ioctl.h from util.h
  perf tools: Remove a few more needless includes from util.h
  perf tools: Include sys/param.h where needed
  perf callchain: Move callchain specific routines from util.[ch]
  perf tools: Add compress.h for the *_decompress_to_file() headers
  perf mem: Fix display of data source snoop indication
  perf debug: Move dump_stack() and sighandler_dump_stack() to debug.h
  perf kvm: Make function only used by 'perf kvm' static
  perf tools: Move timestamp routines from util.h to time-utils.h
  perf tools: Move units conversion/formatting routines to separate object
  ...

Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.txt

@@ -8,8 +8,9 @@ Overview
 --------
 These events are similar to tracepoint based events. Instead of Tracepoint,
 this is based on kprobes (kprobe and kretprobe). So it can probe wherever
-kprobes can probe (this means, all functions body except for __kprobes
-functions). Unlike the Tracepoint based event, this can be added and removed
+kprobes can probe (this means, all functions except those with
+__kprobes/nokprobe_inline annotation and those marked NOKPROBE_SYMBOL).
+Unlike the Tracepoint based event, this can be added and removed
 dynamically, on the fly.
 
 To enable this feature, build your kernel with CONFIG_KPROBE_EVENTS=y.